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Cornbread Released!

BY ED FELIEN An international contingent was at the Cedar Cultural Center on August 16 to celebrate the release of a new album and a new biography of Cornbread by Andrea Swensson, Deeper Blues: The Life, Songs, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris. Jimmy Jam Harris from LA, US Senator Amy…

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Unhoused people

Unhoused people asking for money outside Seward Co-op on Franklin Avenue If you see something, say something. “Hello.” Get the baby food and water. See how the parent is. See if the parent has the social services they need. Call 911 and report Child Endangerment. Drawing and text by Clea…

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Where is the money?

BY KATHRYN KELLY At a community meeting a few years ago, Commissioner Musich was asked if the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board (MPRB) would start the Hiawatha Golf Course project before they had the money. She replied, “We don’t start projects until we have the funding.” On August 7, 2024,…

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Don Samuels’ campaign evokes violent imagery

BY CLINT COMBS Four days after Don Samuels posted on Twitter that, “no one sees any end worth pursuing with political violence,” in condemnation against an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, his campaign released an ad featuring a heads Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on a missing person’s poster. The ad joyfully…

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Debts to be paid, wounds to be healed

By Cam Gordon Minneapolis is falling behind in addressing its racist past. In October of 2020, following the police killing of George Floyd that previous May, the City Council and Mayor unanimously approved establishing a truth and reconciliation process. Then, the focus was clear. The staff report, presented by Joy…

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Summer on Bloomington Avenue South

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Two East Phillips institutions at Bloomington and Franklin Avenues One of the biggest stories about this summer on Bloomington Avenue is happening right at its northernmost point. This is the heart of the city’s Indigenous people’s community at the Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC). In May,…

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Summer on Lyndale Avenue South

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The Wonderful Wedge Do you mean the neighborhood or the cooperative grocery store? I could mean both! But right now I mean the co-op. Although I’ve been a member of a different co-op for 33 years, my favorite co-op to shop is the Wedge (2105 Lyndale…

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Summer on Grand Avenue

BY STEPHANIE FOX It has been said that you don’t need a Minneapolis passport to visit the iconic St. Paul thoroughfare called Grand Ave., and it’s true. Among the 100-year-old houses and apartment buildings on that thoroughfare are unique restaurants and shops that are worth the trip across the river.…

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Fighting Russia to the Last Ukrainian

By Dave Gutknecht Tragically, since my late 2023 article here, many more thousands of Ukrainian lives have been lost or ruined. Like President Biden’s decline, the direction of things on the battlefield has been evident for some time to those who believe their own lyin’ eyes rather than what approved…

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The Trail of Tears and Sderot

BY ED FELIEN The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations between 1830 and 1850. 60,000 people were forced to leave their ancestral homes. Many thousands died on the trail that led from Georgia and South Carolina more than 800 miles…

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Are we sure they are guilty?

BY KAY SCHROVEN Seven months after Marvin Haynes was exonerated, having served nearly 20 years in Stillwater Prison for a murder he didn’t commit, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced the creation of the first Hennepin County Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU). The unit will be led by Andrew Markquart, former Staff…

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What Trumpers got right

BY ED FELIEN First, what they got wrong. This whole white male privilege thing is way out of date. The last time that worked was before the Civil War. Is the antebellum South the “Great” era that Trump says he can “Make” for “America Again”? Birth of a Nation, D…

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Retraction and apology to Bob Kroll

BY ED FELIEN, EDITOR We received this correspondence: “Dear Mr. Felien: “I write to request that you issue a retraction and apology for the false statements about our client, Bob Kroll, in your June 4, 2024, article titled “Trump and the threat of civil war.” In this article, you made…

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