BY ED FELIEN Dear Chief O’Hara I think Omar Fateh and Jason Chavez were being a little rough on you last month. They didn’t want you assisting ICE in their unconstitutional sweeps of the Latin neighborhood around Lake and Bloomington. Perhaps it’s these rose-colored glasses I wear, but I thought…
By Ahmed Tharwat On a local road in Egypt, a minibus carrying laborers collided with a big lorry truck killing 19 people, most of them teenage girls as young as 14, according to local officials. The accident happened in the early hours on a regional road in the city of…
BY DAVE TILSEN Many organizations endorse candidates. Unions, women’s rights groups, business organizations, PACs, environmental organizations, newspapers and others. What endorsements are is simply advice to voters. These organizations are saying, we have thought about the candidates, vetted them, and this is our recommendation. One of the most significant is…
Dear Editor, I appreciate Southside Pride’s commitment to delivering hyper-local news for South Minneapolitans. I also want to commend your recent local reporting, like the “Veterans for Peace help colleague protest Gaza hunger” piece from July 1, on how our neighbors are responding to the Israel–Hamas war. We need more…
BY DEBRA KEEfER RAMAGE Openings, closings, and other changes Once again, I don’t have a lot of new openings to tell you about. In fact, only one, plus one re-opening. The new place is downtown, in the former Bank restaurant space inside the Westin Hotel. It’s called Stock and Bond,…
BY ED FELIEN What happened? For about two days, a state of war existed between the United States and Iran. On the first day of summer, Saturday, June 21, President Trump sent three B-2 bombers into Iran and bombed three sites: the Natanz Enrichment Complex; the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center;…
BY ED FELIEN My wife and I went to the No Kings demonstration at the State Capitol on Saturday, June 14. We drove around the Capitol for more than half an hour and finally found a parking place behind the Capitol at the bottom of Arch Street. We climbed up…
BY CAM GORDON New concerns about city contracts with private and nonprofit groups surfaced in June. With over $589 million budgeted for contractual services for this year, more than the city will pay in salaries and wages for all city employees, taxpayers may want to take note. On June 2,…
BY DEBRA KEEFR RAMAGE A brief history of Highland Park If you have lived in Minnesota long enough, you have learned that we live on stolen land and from whom it was stolen. Maybe, though, you do not know by whom or some of the more terrible details. I looked…
BY STEPHANIE FOX At the intersection of Nicollet and 66th Ave. there are three malls, one on each corner, offering a huge variety of shops. For those who have learned to go around round-abouts, it’s easy to visit one and then move on to the others. TOUS les JOURS at…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Things to do on Cedar Avenue Near the northern end of Cedar, in the Seven Corners and Cedar-Riverside area, you’ll find many entertainment options. Theatre in the Round was founded in 1952 and is the longest-running theatre in Minneapolis. Their 2025-26 season will kick off Sept.…
BY ED FELIEN When I was on the City Council more than half a century ago, John Derus, the Majority Whip, came into my office to complain about my bringing up all sorts of resolutions at Council Meetings that didn’t have the votes to pass (like Rent Control or municipalization…
BY ED FELIEN Thanks for being there. Former Police Chief Arradondo and Mayor Frey weren’t at the Third Precinct when it burned in 2020, but you were there last month at Lake and Bloomington to personally stand between angry demonstrators and armored troops, some wearing ICE badges, and to escort…
BY ED FELIEN The tragic murder of Melissa Hortman has left us with another great emptiness in the progressive leadership of the Minnesota Legislature. She, as Speaker of the House, along with Kari Dziedzic, as Senate Majority Leader, led the Minnesota Legislature in 2023 to pass the most progressive legislation…
BY JOHNNY HAZARD Younger readers may not be familiar with the normal school concept in the U.S., but my grandmother went to one, Bemidji State Teachers’ College in Minnesota, in the 1920s. In the middle of the 20th Century this teachers’ college and others, like those in St. Cloud and…
