Fidel and me

BY TONY BOUZA Reader’s Digest used to have a feature called “The Most Unforgettable Character I Ever Met.”  Set me to thinking. Malcolm X ranks high, but my No. 1 choice would be Fidel Castro. I first met him in 1959 when he attended the U.N. session in the fall and,…

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What I saw at the MN Women’s March

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE I wasn’t going to go originally. I didn’t want to go to DC because I think it’s hypocritical to protest pipelines and not even think about your own fuel consumption, so I think about fuel consumption all the damned time. I thought there will probably be…

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Go to your precinct caucus April 4

BY ED FELIEN The city DFL will be holding precinct caucuses on April 4.  Anyone who cares about this city and their community should attend.  The caucuses will elect delegates who will endorse a candidate to represent their community on the City Council at a ward endorsing convention on either…

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Hundred Flowers, 1970 (continued) 

BY ED FELIEN The cover on our next issue was a cartoon of James Binger wringing dollars out of an anti-personnel bomb with pennies dropping down to a worker in the Honeywell plant.  It was a promotion for a demonstration against Honeywell.  That was what we did best, led cheers…

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Go to your precinct caucus April 4

BY ED FELIEN The city DFL will be holding precinct caucuses on April 4. Anyone who cares about this city and their community should attend.  The caucuses will elect delegates who will endorse a candidate to represent their community on the City Council at a ward endorsing convention on either…

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Saying good-bye to Adrian’s Tavern

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Adrian’s Tavern, beloved institution of Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis, closes forever on Jan.10. Adrian’s was tucked into a small slot between the Parkway Theatre and, most recently, Town Hall Tap. There has been a business in that space since the 1930s, and a place called…

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