Category: Riverside
Local sports and fitness venues begin to resurrect as the pandemic fades
BY STEPHANIE FOX Minneapolis YWCA The YWCA has three Minneapolis locations, Downtown, Midtown and Uptown, and all were busy with activities and events. Then came the pandemic and things changed. During the governor’s shutdown the only thing open was child care. While the mandate eliminated most sports, activities that could…
Publishing the truth is not a crime
BY AMY BLUMENSHINE Independence Day reminds us of the democratic leap forward made by an audacious set of colonies to free themselves from the rule of the king. The Bill of Rights of the Constitution insisted on freedom of the press and prohibits indefinite detention and cruel and unusual punishment.…
Exile
BY TONY BOUZA Policing in America, today, is about where medical science was in the 19th century—desperate for reform but staggering blindly under the problems. Hacksaws, in the Civil War, got plenty of mileage. Wounds got fingered and microbes ignored. Progress came and discoveries flowed with surprising ease, right? Actually,…
Mayday, Mayday!
BY CRAIG WOOD “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” — Carl Jung Underground writers have found ways to circulate reading material since the 17th…
The Dish – a takeaway, a trip to the mall, and a vision of the future
A supernumerary encomium–[What?] A review of Tony Bouza’s autobiography
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN Former Minneapolis Chief of Police Tony Bouza at 92 has written “Confessions of a Police Misfit,” a short autobiography that covers a long life filled with remarkable experiences and observations. Along the way, he has much to say about history, current affairs, his peers, anyone else on…
Mike Freeman must resign!
Counterrevolution or return to sanity at SNG?
Change and stability coexisting on Franklin Avenue in Seward
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Right now, Seward neighborhood and Franklin Avenue from Cedar eastward to the bridge is percolating politically. There’s a city council race coming up in Ward 2 that will be very interesting. With the expected DFL outcome behind us of “no endorsement,” this race solidifies to one…
Why won’t they discuss this?
Complaint about the DFL conventions by the Old Guard
The future of the community at George Floyd Square
How do we stop the violence?
The Feds are coming, The Feds are coming
BY TONY BOUZA A group of Federales is scheduled to assess the Minneapolis Police Department. It is tantamount to an archeological dig among the ruins. With characteristic hubris I will offer an agenda. Welcome to Fredonia. They will find an agency bloated with supervisors—but none making appearances at such atrocities…