BY STEPHANIE FOX As spring has sprung, the focus about what’s needed to be done around the home and lawn change from shoveling snow to home and garden renovations. Expensive? Maybe. But there are ways to make improvements without breaking the bank. It’s not about being cheap, it’s about planning…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Culture and art Culture abounds on Minnehaha Avenue South! The corner of Lake and Minnehaha is unofficially “Downtown Longfellow” and it’s one of the few places in the Twin Cities with not one but two bookstores! (Three, if you count the “Uncles” separately.) Moon Palace is…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Retail shopping — groceries and more The hub of businesses at 34th Avenue, between 49th and 51st Streets, is the largest in the Nokomis neighborhood. It tends toward retail and services. Oxendale’s market is the largest physically. Oxendale’s has been on that corner for decades. In…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Openings, closings, and changes The newest tenants at Eat Street Crossing are Hikari Hand Roll Bar (opened January) and El Sazon Tacos & More (opened March.) I have tried Hikari Hand Roll, and it’s good. I have not yet tried FRGMNT coffee and they are now…
By Ed Felien In an interview with ABC Trump, admitted he could free Abrego Garcia, “I could,” but, in defiance of a unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court and the rule of law, he said he wouldn’t. Habeas Corpus, the right to a hearing before a court of law, is…
BY MYRON ORFIELD A report released by the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity details how a $1 billion, “separate but equal,” government-funded strategy in the Phillip’s neighborhood failed. Over the last few decades, housing developers have convinced the government and philanthropists to provide them with $1 billion to improve education, public…
BY ED FELIEN The 11th Ward Convention will be May 31 at Washburn High School, but it’s beginning to look more like a Coronation of the Homecoming King than a normally raucous DFL Convention. Jamison Whiting played cornerback for the Washburn Millers before he graduated in 2013. He currently coaches boy’s football at…
BY CLINT COMBS Diversity hires have been criticized for harming intelligence agencies, with the White House arguing that such initiatives have weakened national security. Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host, now leads the Pentagon’s campaign against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. His rise reflects a broader reshaping of…
BY CLINT COMBS “I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil,” President Donald Trump said at his campaign rally last fall. The Alien Enemies Act, a zombie law that dates back to the late 18th century and was last used during World War II.…
BY KAY SCHROVEN Pastor Jenny Sung was travelling internationally when she became aware of the opportunity to become Pastor for Calvary Lutheran Church (CLC) on Chicago Ave. in Minneapolis. During her first interview she was cautious, gathering information and assessing the possibilities. By the second interview she felt the calling…
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN On Saturday, April 12, dozens of citizens — most of whom are affiliated with Christian denominations or with other faith groups — walked from the nature center at 49th Ave. N. in North Minneapolis, down the Mississippi River to Bdote, the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota…
BY STEPHANIE FOX Melissa Fritz had worked for nearly a dozen years assisting families circumnavigating the transitions of aging, when she found herself helping her own family through the process. Her father had begun suffering with the symptoms of Alzheimer’s, and when the pandemic began, the isolation made her usually…
Dear Editor, Thank you for your recent article “What’s happening at George Floyd Square? March 4, 2025.” I’ve been writing to Jason Chavez a few times over this issue. I agree with him on a lot of different issues, but he has this one all wrong. I can’t understand for the…
BY ED FELIEN I believe the people who live on the land must be recognized as the rightful owners of that land. No foreign army should determine their sovereignty. There must be plebiscites to allow the people of Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk to vote on whether they want to align…
BY DAVE GUTKNECHT I headed that earlier column with the Istanbul April 2022 agreement that would have left Ukraine intact except for Crimea. The West, through Boris Johnson, then told Ukraine that if it abandoned the negotiations, NATO would back it all the way. Ukraine, having some agency, accepted this…
