Category: Riverside
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NENA plans to pretty us up!
BY STEPHANIE FOX At the February NENA board meeting, three new projects, designed to help residents beautify their neighborhood, were approved. Grants to improve curb appeal, matching grants to create butterfly and pollinator friendly boulevard strips and an expansion of the community garden at St. James Episcopal Church were given…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Change needed for 11th Ward City Council
Come McMasters of War
Seward Cafe launches donation drive
FROM WHERE I STAND: U.S. leads in police killings
Geezerhood
FROM WHERE I STAND: Spend money on food, not arms
BY POLLY MANN The Guardian Weekly is a British publication and therefore its criticism of the British government has a greater impact than that, say, of an American newspaper. Thus its criticism of that country’s arms shipments to Yemen is important. The question I ask is, why shouldn’t Great Britain sell…
‘The Awakening’ reopens the Southern for 2017
BY ADAM MICHAEL SCHENCK Perhaps unlike any other social movement, American feminism seems forced to argue continually for its relevancy. The history books put the movement into “waves,” such as first-wave feminism in which women argued for their right to vote. As legal rights expand and social roles get redefined…
‘Anna in the Tropics’ continues Jungle Theater’s strong run
BY ADAM MICHAEL SCHENCK Literary echoes seem to have passed their high-water mark generations ago. Few quote Shakespeare anymore, and as an atheist I am disappointed that those with “sincerely held religious beliefs” (as Justice Samuel Alito put it in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby) often fail to quote the Bible…
Looking at The Life
BY AMY BLUMENSHINE Southside neighbors are organizing to challenge sex trafficking. Nearly 100 concerned citizens turned out in early February for the informational event at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, “Shining a Light in the Darkness: A Faith-Based response to sex trafficking.” Experts in “The Life,” either as survivors or interveners,…
Why should I go to my precinct caucus?
Resurgent Democratic Socialists chapter tests the waters of Minneapolis politics
Anti-war protest March 18: Stop the Endless U.S. Wars in the Middle East!
BY MICHAEL LIVINGSTON Soon after President Trump took office General John Nicholson, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, told Congress that the U.S. faces a stalemate and needs several thousand more troops (New York Times, 2/10/2017, p. A3). The seemingly endless wars in the Middle East continue under Trump…
