BY STEPHANIE FOX The number of people around the country, and in Minnesota, who find the need to seek out foods shelves has grown every year. In 2023, more than seven million Minnesotans visited local food shelves, up two million the year before. Last year, the numbers were up again.…
BY ED FELIEN It’s beginning to look like an interesting race for mayor this year. First, Frey vetoed the Council’s Budget. He objected to the cuts in downtown personnel in favor of funding “pet projects” in the Council members’ wards. The Council voted to override the mayor’s veto, and Emily Koski,…
Southside Pride sent this Questionnaire to all the candidates running for mayor of Minneapolis. Last month we published a response from DeWayne Davis. We have not received responses to our questions from Omar Fateh, Emily Koski or Jacob Frey. Why are you running for Mayor? A: During my 2021 election, I opposed granting…
BY CLINT COMBS The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Twin Cities have notched significant victories on the Minneapolis City Council, pushing forward city ordinances like a ceasefire resolution, a ride-share wage increase ordinance, a labor standards board, and a resolution calling for all charges to be dropped against pro-Palestinian activists…
BY KATHRYN KELLY Why was Lake Hiawatha at risk for flooding again this year? And why did Minneapolis Park Board Commissioner Musich make a special trip to Hiawatha Golf Course to warn the staff? Maybe it is because the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (MCWD) is using a 45-year-old plan for…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Openings and closings of note In late November, openings included a second location of Francis Burger Joint, a popular NE vegan food outlet. This is on East Lake Street, in the former Peppers & Fries. Two others were new ventures: at 656 Grand Avenue in St.…
BY ED FELIEN What happened? Why did the Democrats do so badly? Was it that white male privilege was threatened by a Black, South Asian woman becoming President? Or was it the Democrat’s refusal to condemn the Israeli genocide of Palestinians? Or was it a general mood of “Throw the…
BY CLINT COMBS On Nov. 21, 2024, Whitney Wildman and George W. Crocker were among the speakers at a protest outside Xcel Energy’s offices at 401 Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis. The protest was organized by a coalition of groups including Women Against Military Madness, Indigenous Earth Protectors, Nukewatch, and the…
BY CAM GORDON This fall, many Southside homeowners received their truth-in-taxation estimated property tax notices for 2025 and discovered they are going up again. The 2025 city budget is set to be approved on Dec. 10, and council members are looking at ways to cut costs and find new funding…
If your organization is part of the resistance to the Trump presidency and it is not included here, then please tell us about your group and its upcoming activities in an email to editor@southsidepride.com by the 20th of the month to be included in next month’s edition. The City of Minneapolis The Sanctuary…
BY DEBRRA KEEFER RAMAGE Why I just could not write another dark and serious holiday article this year I reviewed the ten holiday pieces I have written for Southside Pride’s December issues since 2014. This year will be number eleven. Around about 2020, the tone of my writings got darker,…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Look to indigenous ways Although you will be reading this in December, or later, I wrote it in November, which is American Indian Heritage Month. I thought for that reason, plus the fact that the past few years has seen a great increase in availability of…
BY ED FELIEN The first Christmas dinner I can remember is when I was 7 years old. It was in 1945. We drove over to Aunt Beda’s house in North Minneapolis in a 1935 Dodge sedan. She was the matriarch of the family. She raised my dad, his two sisters,…
BY KAY SCHROVEN History In the spring of 2023, the Minneapolis Department of Human Rights (MDHR) and the city of Minneapolis – including the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) – entered into a court enforceable agreement to correct alleged violations of the MDHR Act, Minn.Stat.Ch.363A. The Agreement requires specific measures that…
BY LUCIA W. SMITH On a chilly Saturday morning in November, children gathered with families and colleagues in Stewart Park, across from Abbott Northwestern and Minnesota Children’s Hospitals, including the Mother Baby Center, to commemorate that other “Children’s Press Conference” held a year earlier, Nov. 7, 2023, outside Gaza’s largest…
