Dear Editor: Corporate tobacco companies continue to aggressively market their products to young people. As a queer woman, this is a particularly important issue to me because LGBTQ-identified people in Minnesota are 2.5 times more likely to smoke than their cisgender heterosexual counterparts. I am encouraged by the growing number…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE “Don’t mourn, organize!” –Joe Hill, before being shot by a Utah firing squad Approximately 700 activists and former Bernie Sanders for President supporters gathered at St. Peter’s AME Church in South Minneapolis on Sunday, Nov. 13. The three-hour-long meeting, starting at 1 p.m., was called “Trump,…
BY NICK LICATA Currently there are about 20 city police departments that U.S. Department of Justice has investigated and found to have exhibited a “pattern and practice” of using excessive force and/or violating people’s civil rights. The cities then faced either being sued by DOJ for violating the 1994 Violent…
BY POLLY MANN How can a class action lawsuit in California affect prisoners in Minnesota, while the suit affects California prisoners only? It could produce a change in the policies of Minnesota’s jails and prisons. It’s called Asker vs. Governor of California on behalf of prisoners held in the Security…
BY ADAM M. SCHENCK Originally performed as a Fringe Festival piece, “105 Proof, Or, The Killing of Mack ‘The Silencer’ Klein” is playwright and director Diogo Lopes’ song of family and business—the ur-themes of the gangster genre. Ever since “The Godfather” in 1972, the inherent conflict between family ties and…
BY LORI JOKINEN, DC, CACCP How many times have you heard this story from women reporting the same types of symptoms: an inability to lose weight despite consuming a low calorie diet, decrease in energy/fatigue, thinning hair, and even depression? Most women feel they have a thyroid disorder but have…
The gym at Powderhorn Park was full of music from DJs spinning records, children laughing, representatives from half-a-dozen local organizations explaining their programs while over 120 Powderhorn residents sought to re-imagine the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association (PPNA) at its annual meeting on Oct. 13. Incumbents Marisa Rivera and Malia Burkhart…
