BY TONY BOUZA America’s hands wring in agony over police-black tensions now characterized by the Black Lives Matter movement. What a mystery! Cops treat blacks badly. Mirabile dictu!! Look at any analysis of American social, economic or judicial life and who will you find—literally or figuratively—on the ghetto corners of…
BY ED FELIEN The recent attacks by radical Islamic terrorists in Brussels were horrifying. Thirty-five innocent civilians were murdered. The response by Ted Cruz on Easter Sunday, after coming from church and hearing the story of gentle Jesus’ Resurrection, was to carpet bomb ISIS. Sorry, Ted, but we’re going to…
The corrections we printed in the Nokomis edition of April have been incorporated into this article. BY CARLA WALDEMAR Savory Bake House 3008 36th Ave. S. 612-729-1310 http://savorybakehouse.letseat.at/ So … did East Lake Street need a bakery? “We opened on Dec. 18 and I just had my first day off,”…
BY CAROL BECKER Minneapolis has 160 neighborhood parks and 49 neighborhood park buildings. This excludes any regional parks like the Chain of Lakes or the Riverfront. A study done last year by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board showed that we need $14 million a year to maintain these neighborhood…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The spectacular failure of the search for a new permanent superintendent of the Minneapolis public school system is very like an iceberg. It’s a massive frozen thing blocking your progress, threatening your safety, and concealing who knows what further ugliness lies beneath the surface. Here is…
