Category: Riverside

BY TWIN CITIES DSA MEMBERS KIM JONES, JON MARTINSON AND BRAD MCGARR There has been a Twin Cities Local of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for as long as there has been a DSA, about 34 years in fact. (Although as of this year, we are going to be known…

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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…

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BY JOHN KARRIGAN As it has been for most of the 2016-17 winter, I am not finding many small birds in the park to write about. The backyard birds are doing well as usual.  The regulars—Northern Cardinals American Goldfinches, Black-capped Chickadees, English Sparrows, Dark-eyed Juncos, Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers White-breasted…

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BY ED FELIEN Hubert Humphrey was running for senator again after losing the race for President in 1968.  He was speaking at a Hamline College graduation.  Some of us thought it would be a good idea to remind folks about his defense of the war in Vietnam and his lying…

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The Longfellow Community Council will host a community input meeting on the proposed 46th Street/Snelling Avenue development on Thursday, Feb. 23, at Hiawatha Park Rec. Center (4301 E. 42nd St.) from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., with representatives from the developer, city planning and the park board present to answer questions.…

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BY ED FELIEN Here is a radical but practical program for the City of Minneapolis that would allow us to evaluate candidates for mayor and City Council. The City of Minneapolis should: 1. Conduct a full public investigation of the police conduct surrounding the deaths of Terrance Franklin and Jamar…

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BY CARLA WALDEMAR Costa Blanca Bistro 2416 Central Avenue NE 612-789-9295 www.costablancabistro.com Well, it’s finally here. And worth the wait. Here’s what I wrote for this newspaper back in 2015 about wunderchef Hector Ruiz and his Latin-flavored dining empire: “They call it Rincon 38. I call it tapas heaven. It’s…

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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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BY POLLY MANN The words of a former secretary general of the Soviet Union may have little significance once he is out of office but recent statements of Mikhail Gorbachev deserve, in my opinion, recognition, or at the very least an item in a “Good News” column. So I’m filling…

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BY BENJAMIN MERRILL Headlines about fraud within for-profit education businesses appeared frequently in 2016.  Stories of long overdue regulatory action conceal a history of regulatory inaction regarding fraud in for-profit education, which has both allowed and rewarded one of America’s biggest systems of consumer abuse. One of the largest accreditors…

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BY ED FELIEN Precinct caucuses are coming up Tuesday night, April 4.  On that night, the DFL starts all over again. The goddess Aphrodite (Venus, in the Roman pantheon) was extravagant in her affections, but every night she would return to her father, Poseidon, the god of the sea, and…

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BY ADAM MICHAEL SCHENCK Not all theater should be taut and dramatic expositions on human mistakes, even if it seems we do little else. Of course the symbol of the theater is two masks, one comedy and the other tragedy. Since taking the helm of the Guthrie as artistic director…

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