Phillips/Powderhorn

Her name was Lola. She was an art crawl. And she’s back on for 2015! The 7th annual LoLa Art Crawl is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Sept. 19, and Sunday, Sept. 20,  10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days, in the greater Longfellow neighborhood of South Minneapolis. We…

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BY STAN GOTLIEB Tis the night before elections, and the teachers are at it again, only more so. Stomping around disrupting everything they can, they are the guarantors of a right-wing victory tomorrow.  So far this week, they have destroyed some offices of the Federal Electoral Institute; closed down the…

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As they say, “There are only two seasons in Minnesota, winter and construction season.” From Hennepin County: The Hennepin County Transportation Department in partnership with the City of Minneapolis is reconstructing Minnehaha Avenue from East 46th Street to Lake Street. Effective June 15, 2015, the intersection of Minnehaha Avenue and…

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BY ED FELIEN Work began on the Franklin Avenue Bridge in April.  This year construction will be limited to repairing the structural supports for the bridge. Routine inspections found exposed steel rebar.  Some of the concrete has worn through from repeated freezing and melting.  According to HongPong, Dan Fiedt’s personal…

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BY ED FELIEN My wife and I went to Ireland in the summer of 1986 to look for forgotten relatives and pay our respects to the source of so much poetry in the English language.  We spent a week in Dublin seeing plays, visiting Trinity College, looking at the monuments…

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AYOTZINAPA, EIGHT MONTHS OF CONSPIRATORIAL SILENCE AND IMPUNITY AYOTZINAPA IS NOT FORGIVEN NOR FORGOTTEN! MAKE PEÑA NIETO’S CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT PAY! “AYOTZI LIVES, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!” For all immigrants from Latin America and allies who are in the state of Minnesota, we are witnesses of the disappearance of students from Ayotzinapa…

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BY CARLA WALDEMAR Rincon 38 3801 Grand Ave. S. 612-824-4052 www.rincon38.com They call it Rincon 38. I call it tapas heaven. It’s one of the Divine Trinity of cafes saluting Spanish small plates showcasing the genius of chef/owner Hector Ruiz and his home team, on a winning streak in the…

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BY ED FELIEN On Saturday, May 23, Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed the Agriculture Bill. “Minnesotans care deeply about our Great Outdoors, and expect that our regulatory agencies will have the authority needed to protect our natural resources,” Dayton wrote in his veto letter, “House File 846 weakens the state’s authority…

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BY ELAINE KLAASSEN Sometimes you’re working at a low-paying job and you just don’t make enough to cover basic necessities. Or you’ve been laid off and don’t have savings. Or you’ve had a medical emergency and can’t work. Or you don’t have child care. Or you’ve never learned how to…

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BY BECKY RECH The Nokomis Nerds took home the win on Thursday, May 28, at the second Roosevelt Library Trivia Night.  Players could work in teams of up to four people and were encouraged to choose a creative name for their team. With their team name chosen, team members Tom…

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The public was invited to join in the groundbreaking celebration for the new playground at Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park on May 6. According to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, “The playground will be the first in the state of Minnesota to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin…

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BY ED FELIEN Do we dare to hope again? Haven’t we been lied to and abused long enough? Shouldn’t we just give up on the Democratic Party?  Aren’t they just the same as the Republican Party, except the Republicans are more honest about supporting big business, big oil and bigger…

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BY JOHN KARRIGAN I could start this month the same as last month—that I was expecting a lot of new birds this month, but they did not show up. In fact I have seen no warblers in the park this year. Most years by this time I would see about…

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BY STAN GOTLIEB Lázaro Cárdenas was a general of the Army, and became president around the time of the second great war to end all wars, not too long after I was born. Lázaro’s son, Cuauhtémoc, rejected his father’s party, the PRI, when the party failed to promote him—although it…

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BY ED FELIEN There has been an “epidemic” of heroin addiction in the South Minneapolis Native American community, according to Clyde Bellecourt.  Six people in the Little Earth Housing Project have died of overdoses in the past six months. Ruben Rosario reported in the Pioneer Press:  “Bellecourt, who as a…

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