BY ED FELIEN Adieu, adieu, kind friends, adieu We can no longer stay with you We must hang our harps on a weeping willow tree And may the world go well with thee Fare thee well, for we must leave you Do not let our parting grieve you For remember…
BY ED FELIEN What happened with the November elections? Everywhere there was a Blue Wave, a rejection of Trump and his policies. In New York City, an African immigrant, a Muslim, a Democratic Socialist, won the Mayor’s seat, but, in Minneapolis, an African immigrant, a Muslim, a Democratic Socialist, lost.…
BY ED FELIEN Right now, over 100 Jews and people of conscience are rallying ahead of the City Budget Hearing demanding the city of Minneapolis cut ties with Israeli surveillance tech company Zencity. Our city should not be partnering with an Israeli company as the Israeli military commits genocide and…
BY ED FELIEN As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors. Hegseth gave a verbal order to kill everybody in the first Caribbean boat strike, officials said. Admiral Alvin Holsey,…
BY ED FELIEN “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.” Jefferson, Franklin, Adams. They called it a “Hate America” rally. Mike Johnson, the leader of the Three Stooges who locked the doors to our House of Representatives to protect Donald Trump from being exposed as a pedophile, said, “I bet…
BY ED FELIEN There is a Cease Fire in Gaza, but that probably doesn’t really mean much. An Israeli settler drove a bulldozer over an unexploded ordinance and set it off killing two Israelis. Netanyahu used this as an excuse to claim Hamas had re-started the war and began a…
BY ED FELIEN At first I thought, like everyone else, it must have been someone from the left who killed Charlie Kirk. Kirk had said things like: Black women shouldn’t be political leaders because they don’t have the “brain processing power”; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a “huge…
BY ED FELIEN We loved you. We especially loved you and Gwen when you talked about teaching kids and watching over the lunchroom in the Mankato public schools. I still have your lawn sign. We thought you were on our side. You sounded like a prairie populist last year when…
BY ED FELIEN What does it look like? If it were under the old rules, where the candidate with the most votes wins, Frey would likely beat Fateh. He’ll probably get 40% of the vote. Fateh will probably get something like 34% of the vote. Davis will probably get something…
BY ED FELIEN Late Monday evening on Sept. 15, someone shot into two homeless encampments on Lake Street. One person was killed and six more were injured. Police believe it was a turf battle for who could sell drugs in the area. Trivon Leonard, Jr., from a Chicago suburb, is…
BY ED FELIEN The Frey campaign is serving sour grapes to anyone who cares to buy their analysis of what happened at the DFL City Convention that endorsed Omar Fateh for Mayor. Last month we detailed the process by which thousands of people in April elected some of their neighbors…
BY ED FELIEN On Aug. 19 the State DFL Constitution, By-laws and Rules Committee determined that the City DFL endorsement of Omar Fateh wasn’t valid and people in the city couldn’t do anything about it. We couldn’t hold another convention. And, what’s more, we can’t even meet for two years…
ANOTHER LOVE LETTER TO CHIEF O’HARA BY ED FELIEN Congratulations,_Chief O’Hara. The report by the City Auditor found that you did not violate the city ordinance that prohibited you from providing assistance to immigration agents when you led officers from the MPD to Lake and Bloomington on June 3. A…
BY ED FELIEN Early this year people were reminded that the City of Minneapolis was going to have municipal elections this November, and anybody who had an issue with City Hall should go to a DFL precinct caucus in early April. A precinct caucus is like a neighborhood meeting. You…
BY ED FELIEN We were very disappointed to read of Tim Walz’s endorsement of Jacob Frey for Mayor. Besides opening up a can of worms about their past collaboration, it’s a big political mistake. During the riots and burnings that took place on Lake Street in 2020 following the murder…
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