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Enjoy Variety on Lyndale Avenue South

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The theater scene on Lyndale Avenue Bryant Lake Bowl has a monthly feature called “Improv Zodiac,” which in August will feature performers whose birthdates fall under the sign of Leo. They also offer “Uproar Comedy Open Mic,” as well as featured performances. A complete listing is…

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Business Thrives on Bloomington

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Places to eat and drink We covered the May Day Cafe in our Bloomington Avenue story last year, but only a month or so later they began the process of becoming a worker-owned co-op. Now that process is officially complete and the cafe has been under…

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We are very disappointed

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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County Board to take back HCMC

BY ED FELIEN On Aug. 5, a committee meeting of the Hennepin County Board will discuss a resolution initiated by the County Administrator and supported by Board Chair Irene Fernando and South Minneapolis Commissioner Angela Conley to restore public ownership and oversight to the Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC). The…

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Marvina Haynes in Ward 4

BY CLINT COMBS On November 4, voters in Ward 4 will choose between incumbent LaTrisha Vetaw and her challenger Marvina Haynes. In 2021, Vetaw knocked off Council Member Phillipe Cunningham after campaigning against a 2020 charter amendment to disband the Minneapolis Police Department. Vetaw has aligned with conservative Council Members…

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What Did the Hiawatha Links Survey Say?

BY KATHRYN KELLY The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) did another survey about the Hiawatha Golf Course project in February. The following results are a best effort to categorize the comments. The top ten categories of comments were: 268 – Keep the 18 hole golf course 209 – Redesigning…

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Melting ICE (Another love letter to Chief O’Hara)

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…

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Death on the Nile

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…

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What is an endorsement?

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…

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HERC burning reduction?

Hennepin County Board Chair, Irene Fernando, on July 31, released a statement that she “will advocate for Hennepin County to begin reducing total trash burned at the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC) by February 2026 by 80,300 tons to a total of 284,700 tons per year; by November 2026 reducing…

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News or opinion? – Letter to the Editor

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…

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