Phillips/Powderhorn

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE If you’re like the majority of our readership, you try to limit your footprint on the earth. Maybe you drive a hybrid car, maybe you bike instead when you can. You try to shop locally, grow some of your own food, buy organic, not use plastic,…

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Along with the usual SSP informational and inspirational coverage, including your political rants, I was surprised by a Bay of Pigs story— not by its placement in a community paper but by your repeating the famous but fatuous Lee Harvey Oswald legend. It matters because the deep state that carried…

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BY ED FELIEN It’s amazing! The excitement that has been generated, the wildly enthusiastic crowds, the steady increase in Bernie’s popularity in the polls, all are testament to a massive popular support for democratic socialism. Who would have thought it? Just a few months ago, early last spring, Bernie was…

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BY CARLA WALDEMAR Alma 528 University Avenue SE 612-379-4909 www.restaurantalma.com Let’s!” exclaimed a friend when I suggested dining at Restaurant Alma: “It’s been way too long!” When concentrating on the ongoing surge of new eateries in Lyn-Uptown and the Warehouse District, we’d forgotten about one of the all-time best in…

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Color our drawing and the best drawing will win a $50 gift certificate to Pepitos to take your family to dinner. Send submissions by Dec. 1 to Southside Pride at 3200 Chicago Ave. S., 55407. The Nokomis East Neighborhood Association is organizing its annual Tree Lighting Ceremony in the Oxendale’s…

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BY ED FELIEN By the time of the March on Washington I was already too radical to believe I was needed or wanted.  It was to be a mostly black affair, and communists and Marxists weren’t invited.  Organizers of the March had been fending off criticisms that the March was…

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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE In a stunning reversal, after initially defending the choice of a $1.25 million contract with publisher Reading Horizons, the Minneapolis School Board reversed its decision and cancelled the contract at its meeting on Oct. 13. The meeting was packed with angry parents and community members who…

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BY ED FELIEN Last month Council Member Alondra Cano organized a meeting in her ward (9th Ward) to discuss gentrification.  More than a hundred people showed up to listen to experts talk about how gentrification of neighborhoods prices poor and working people out of their homes. Most people when they think…

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BY ED FELIEN On Tuesday, Oct. 20, at about 6:45 p.m., in the bus shelter at Lake Street and Park Avenue, Jessica Denise St. Marie was shot multiple times in the head.  She was 28, African American and homeless.   Adopted when she was 8, her adoptive mother said, “There was…

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BY JOHN KARRIGAN I might have more travel adventures to write about this month. Or I might not. The world-renowned Powder-horn Lake actually receded enough that the concrete walls around some of the lake were again visible after being underwater for most of the summer. The water has again come…

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BY KARI ANDRADE Rice is the single most important grain worldwide for human nutrition.  Rice accounts for one- fifth of all calories consumed.  As a hippie child I learned the macro-biotic diet was the healthiest way to eat; as a result I hated brown rice and veggies for a long…

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How can we save our environment and save our environment at the same time? We need the light rail in order to eliminate the use of fossil fuels and we need the trees so we can breathe. But can we sacrifice the trees for the light rail? Isn’t there a…

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MEL REEVES WITH TEDDY SHIBABAW AND 19 OTHERS Hollywood, Calif. “Straight Outta Compton” is a great movie, entertainment at its best. And, while depicting the lives of poor Comptonites who come out of the so-called underside of American life, the movie is as American as you can get. It’s a…

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A REMEMBRANCE FROM CAM GORDON I was saddened to learn that Chester, a West Bank icon, has died.  Chester was a gentle man, and was well-known and well-loved by the West Bank community, especially some of his nearest neighbors in the Riverview Tower apartment building. One of the most interesting…

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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE You may already be familiar with University Baptist Church, which commands the major corner in Dinkytown of 13th Avenue SE and University. It’s an imposing building, and it has a long history in Dinkytown. The current pastor, Doug Donley, has been there since March 2001. The…

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