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,…
Picnic in the Park brings together more than 5,000 neighbors from the Hale Page Diamond Lake neighborhood and beyond showcasing local business and non-profit organizations. For more than 20 years this has become a summer tradition for many. Organized by the HPDL Community Association, people are drawn to the event…
The life and times of a bi-culturall_homosexual draft-dodging peacenik in story and song. A musical teach-in based on the real-life experiences of an unorthodox White Boy in the Deep South of the 1950’s and 60’s. A history lesson for the youth of today, reliving memories of the John Birch Society…
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 SUE KOLSTAD After the depression, the mid 1930s saw many labor strikes across the country. In Minneapolis they began in 1934 with the teamster’s strike. Before that year, Minneapolis was an “open shop” town controlled by the Citizens Alliance. Other unions struck in sympathy with the Teamsters. Governor Olson…
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 CLINT COMBS Minnesota is not just a beacon of civil liberties, it’s also a national testing ground for economic liberty policies. If you can’t choose where to use your skills and talents, then you’re not really free. If you can’t switch jobs without being penalized, then you’re not really…
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…
“All We are Saying, is Give Peace a Chance” BY KAY SCHROVEN Those of you who were around in the late 1960s and 1970s may remember the young, white “hippies” with shaved heads chanting in the airports and handing out literature about Krsna. They were known as the “Hare Krsnas.”…
