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Mexican elections: the view from Oaxaca

BY STAN GOTLIEB Lázaro Cárdenas was a general of the Army, and became president around the time of the second great war to end all wars, not too long after I was born. Lázaro’s son, Cuauhtémoc, rejected his father’s party, the PRI, when the party failed to promote him—although it…

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Heroin in Indian Country

BY ED FELIEN There has been an “epidemic” of heroin addiction in the South Minneapolis Native American community, according to Clyde Bellecourt.  Six people in the Little Earth Housing Project have died of overdoses in the past six months. Ruben Rosario reported in the Pioneer Press:  “Bellecourt, who as a…

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The World Through Our Eyes

There will be an opening night reception from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, June 12, at All My Relations Gallery for “The World Through Our Eyes,” an exhibition of works by eight Two Spirit artists. Curated by 2015 guest curator Orlando Avery, the exhibition showcases a beautiful variety of…

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SCABA sets annual car show for Sunday, June 7

The South Chicago Avenue Business Alliance (“SCABA”) has announced that its 6th Annual Classic Car Show will be held on Sunday, June 7,  from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the intersection of 48th Street and Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis. As in other years, the car show will feature…

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Raina’s Wellness: Growing pains

BY RAINA GOLDSTEIN BUNNAG Ouch! Getting older hurts.  Yet, it doesn’t necessarily have to. Most people will experience increased aches and pains as they age, but it isn’t inevitable.  The increased incidence of painful conditions like osteoarthritis and back pain often cause people to take multiple medications and even resort…

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Minnehaha Avenue’s (Counter-) Cultural Corridor

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Although it doesn’t have an association to advertise itself as such, Minnehaha Avenue has quietly become a Corridor of Culture over the last five or 10 years. A lot of it is with a distinctly alternative or counter-culture style. Starting at Lake Street and going south,…

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Roosevelt parents want equity

BY JEANETTE WIEDEMEIER BOWER, RHS BOOSTERS Roosevelt High School is experiencing incredible growth. Our student population is expanding, parents are becoming active in the once defunct Booster Club, and the community is rallying around our school again. There is increased energy among the Teddies; the future is bright. Much of…

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Hooray for Mayor Hodges!

BY ED FELIEN Bill McGuire and his sports buddies the Pohlads, who own the Twins, and Glen Taylor, who owns the Timberwolves, want to build a stadium in downtown Minneapolis just for soccer.  And here’s the good news: They want to build it using private money.  And here’s the bad…

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Sami Rasouli goes above and beyond

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Sami Rasouli, Iraqi-born, naturalized American citizen, lived in the Twin Cities for over 25 years. Although he was a respected businessman and restaurateur, as well as a husband, a father, and involved in local and international issues, it was only after he went back to Iraq…

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No more poor, no more

BY ED FELIEN Why are we poor? No money, no hopes? Despair today? And no tomorrow? Despair robs us of our dreams and forces our minds to find cunning ways to survive. No more. No more poor, no more. We need to change our attitude. We need to strut upon…

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An inconvenient law

BY SUSU JEFFREY A team of us spent three years lobbying at the State Capitol to get the Coldwater protection law through committees, approved on the floor and signed by the governor in 2001. The Law: Protection of the Natural Flow Neither the state, nor a unit of metropolitan government,…

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Queen of Cuisine: Smack in the Kisser

BY CARLA WALDEMAR Smack Shack 603 Washington Avenue N 612-259-7288 www.smack-shack.com True confession: I have a weakness for an illicit pleasure, satisfied by secret visits to a porn shop on Washington Avenue. No, no—not those! I’m talking food porn. And the dietary item that sends me into delirium is ……

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Fun things to do on 34th Avenue

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE As you approach and pass Minnehaha Parkway, going south on 34th Avenue, the houses, yards and businesses become somehow more suburban looking. At the main intersection of 34th Ave. and 50th St., especially if you stand in front of the library on 51st Street and look…

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Cars and Trucks to Go Crazy Over!

The 6th Annual Classic Car Show will feature Cars and Trucks from the 1940s through the 1980s—and even some older than that. Come “stroll through the past” and admire the cars from yesteryear! Put on by the Street Kings Car Club of Mpls./St. Paul and the neighborhood’s South Chicago Avenue…

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