Phillips/Powderhorn

BY ED FELIEN Go to your precinct caucuses tomorrow night, Tuesday, April 4.  It’s the first step in the beginning of a great adventure. It’s a three-way race for City Council in Ward 6 and Ward 9.  Three-way races are always much more volatile and exciting than a two-person race.…

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BY STEPHANIE FOX New construction at the Phillips Community Center has begun, with a groundbreaking ceremony and a mini-tour of the site that will soon house the only indoor swimming pools in the city’s park system. Included in the plan is a renovation of an existing 6-lane pool and a…

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It’s here.  Thank God and Goddesses, it’s spring! Two things mean spring in Minneapolis: The film festival and Mayday. The 36th Annual Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival (Ms Piff to those of us who care), April 13-29, will be bringing us 250 new films from more than 70 countries.…

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BY JOHN KARRIGAN I could start this with the same sentence I used last month, but that would not be nice so I will try to improve, though there are still not many—or any—small birds in the park. I did see my first turtle of the season today (March 28).…

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BY ORMN VOLUNTEER LILY KEIRE Our Revolution has endorsed Alondra Cano for council member of the 9th Ward. We are proud of Alondra’s accomplishments, Alondra’s progressive stance, and Alondra’s adherence to principles shared by Our Revolution MN. We stand together for fundamental transformation through popular power. We seek to overcome…

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BY POLLY MANN The U.N. announced that a famine affecting 20 million people would be likely if the U.N. couldn’t muster up an additional $4.4 billion in food relief by the end of March. Historically, the United States has provided such funds to the U.N. In order for the President…

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BY ADAM MICHAEL SCHENCK Admit it. Donald J. Trump is a remarkable person. Now read this: For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the…

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BY TONY BOUZA One of the inescapable disabilities of geezerhood is the temptation to reminisce.  Here I go. The time is early 1968.  I am the eminence grise to the highest ranking member of the NYPD—a Sammy Glick* who knew how to run after the prize—and get it—but had no…

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BY ED FELIEN Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks   –Bob Dylan…

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BY ED FELIEN A friend wrote on the Mpls Issues List that he’s discouraged about going to his precinct caucus: “Before, precinct caucuses were in the precincts or very close, but after the caucuses went consolidated, no longer could one walk to a caucus. One would have to drive and…

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BY ED FELIEN MoveOn.org writes: “Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) has introduced a bipartisan bill to block additional U.S. forces from being sent into Syria. “H.R. 1473 prohibits the Department of Defense from funding any attempt by the administration to expand our presence in Syria by putting U.S. combat boots on…

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BY TWIN CITIES DSA MEMBERS KIM JONES, JON MARTINSON AND BRAD MCGARR There has been a Twin Cities Local of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for as long as there has been a DSA, about 34 years in fact. (Although as of this year, we are going to be known…

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BY ED FELIEN The roundup of “undesirables” has begun. They will be sent to detention camps. The Star Tribune reported Friday that 26 immigrants had been arrested in Minnesota by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. “The Incarnation Church member arrested on Lake Street last week had lived in the…

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BY POLLY MANN People may be sick of reading about him but here’s a small item. The Trump Administration is proposing a $54 billion increase in the arms budget. (I refuse to call it “defense” spending because it is not that.) One of the results is a deficit budget of…

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BY LYNN BALFOUR Imagine a city whose policies reduce health disparities rather than create them.  I have lived in the Longfellow neighborhood of South Minneapolis for a little more than 25 years. I’ve worked in the healthcare field for almost 20 years. I support increasing the minimum wage to $15…

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