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Ward 8 City Council race: Jenkins vs. Stevenson
BY KAY SCHROVEN Sometimes out of tragedy something meaningful is rendered. This is how Soren Stevenson describes his brave decision to run for a seat on the City Council representing the 8th Ward. Stevenson is running against Andrea Jenkins who has represented the ward since 2018 and has been City…
MPD and the consent decree
BY KAY SCHROVEN One thousand and forty days after the murder of George Floyd by a former Minneapolis police officer, the city has a settlement agreement, a legally binding consent decree. A consent decree is a court order that establishes an enforceable plan for sustainable reform. Minneapolis is not the first…
A failure to communicate?
BY CAM GORDON Many people were surprised when, on March 29, the city of Minneapolis announced plans to rehouse a police station at one of two locations in the Southside’s 3rd Precinct. According to the announcement, from July 2020 to December 2022 city staff had been examining potential sites for…
Community conversations about 3rd Precinct building
BY SUE KOLSTAD On April 11, the first of a series of meetings was held, ostensibly to give community members the chance to decide on the location of a new 3rd Precinct building. This was to be the first of a series of “conversations” hurriedly called to push through a new building.…
Signs of hope in a backdrop of despair
BY ELINA KOLSTAD April has finally broken through the snowpack in Minneapolis; in a similar way signs of hope are sprouting up in a political system still recovering from the regressive policies of Trump and his MAGA movement. I have been proud to see Minnesota making national news. First when…
Spring on 34th Avenue
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE South 34th Avenue functions as a sort of Main Street for the tight-knit but diverse community around Lake Nokomis. The pandemic and economic disruption caused some closings but storefronts at the 34th Avenue and 50th Street hub and surrounding areas don’t stay vacant for long. Five…
Spring on East 38th Street
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Boludo El 38 Spring has come to East 38th Street! East 38th Street stretches from Nicollet Avenue to Mississippi River Boulevard, but we’re going to start just a tiny bit west of there with Boludo, the Argentinian restaurant taking the local food scene by storm. Boludo…
Spring on Minnehaha Avenue
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Spring is coming on for real now; my allergies tell me so. Despite allergies and other struggles, spring is very beautiful along Minnehaha Avenue this year. It’s culturally blooming, lush with arts, community-building, and the fusion of the two. In addition to our old favorites like…
In spring, we turn to thoughts of zero waste and decluttering
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Spring thoughts A project a lot of people are undertaking this spring is to make their home as close to zero waste as possible. It makes a lot of sense. News from the ever-growing Great Pacific Garbage Patch is troubling, Minneapolis environmentalists are pressuring Hennepin County…
Food and restaurant news, hush puppies, and a sushi sandwich from ESC
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Openings and closings • A restaurant known as Juniper in its development stage was previously announced for the former Common Roots site at Lyndale and 26th Street. At the last minute, they changed the name to Hi Flora! due to an older place in Lanesboro called…
The Roof Depot demolition is not just East Phillips’ problem
BY DANIEL COLTEN SCHMIDT, EAST PHILLIPS RESIDENT A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a society is only as prosperous as its most marginalized community. East Phillips Neighborhood Institute’s (EPNI) plan for a cooperatively owned indoor urban farm, massive solar array, community space and low-income housing…
City’s new climate action plan needs your comments
BY ULLA NILSEN, MN350 On April 19, the city of Minneapolis released a new 10-year climate action plan for public comment. Why should I care, you ask? Without a city-coordinated program, most households will be unable to access the $14,000 of federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funding. This means they…
Minneapolis food shelves struggle to feed those in need
BY STEPHANIE FOX It’s another frigid Monday afternoon in mid-March and the lines of people are already beginning to form outside of New Creations Ministries, a South Minneapolis church at the corner of 51st Street and 13th Avenue. It’s an hour before the food shelf opens to the public. Senior…
How we got here
BY ED FELIEN The name Ukraine probably comes from the Slavic language, meaning borderland. Greek and Roman historians write about Slavic peoples growing wheat and riding horses across the wide steppe or prairie. The Eurasian Steppe reached from Ukraine to northern China. It was a wide highway and open invitation for the…
