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BY ED FELIEN What happened? Why did the Democrats do so badly? Was it that white male privilege was threatened by a Black, South Asian woman becoming President? Or was it the Democrat’s refusal to condemn the Israeli genocide of Palestinians? Or was it a general mood of “Throw the…

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BY ED FELIEN The first Christmas dinner I can remember is when I was 7 years old. It was in 1945. We drove over to Aunt Beda’s house in North Minneapolis in a 1935 Dodge sedan. She was the matriarch of the family. She raised my dad, his two sisters,…

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BY ED FELIEN We just received an announcement that Heart of the Beast is planning to sell the Avalon theater property and move to an as yet undetermined new home where “the new location will be centered on learning and development by providing after school programs, camps, storytime, artist and…

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BY ED FELIEN Next year, the city of Minneapolis will elect a mayor and a city council to four-year terms. We understand Omar Fateh, Emily Koski and DeWayne Davis are challenging incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey.  We sent Koski this questionnaire, but she did not respond by press time.  We did…

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BY ED FELIEN You ran a great campaign. You took the right message to the right people, but they just weren’t ready to hear it. White male privilege is a lot to give up. Socially conservative men – Latinos, Muslims, Blacks and Whites — believe their sperm is sacred and…

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BY ED FELIEN A super-majority of the Minneapolis City Council issued a Housing First statement of principles and objectives. Finland has a policy of Housing First as a solution to homelessness: first, get them a safe place to stay, then get them a job, and then make them pay rent. Here…

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