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Love in pop-up urban crimescapes

BY GARY HOOVER For years I’ve done long meditation walks in Minneapolis.  The stretch of Lake Street from Grand Avenue on the West all the way to Hiawatha Avenue on the East and surrounding streets and alleys is an urban space where people who many see as hopeless “losers”—pimps, prostitutes,…

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Open Streets on East Lake Street

For the first time on East Lake Street, Minneapolis residents will have the opportunity to explore and enjoy their neighborhood streets without the presence of motorized traffic at Open Streets East Lake! Open Streets events bring together local businesses, families and neighbors to bike, walk, socialize, play and shop in…

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Franklin Avenue, Main Street for Hipsters?

BY ED FELIEN Recently BuzzFeed named Minnesota the Most Hipster State in the U.S., and City Pages named Seward as the most hipster neighborhood.  Would that make Franklin Avenue Hipster Boulevard? BuzzFeed used these criteria to evaluate hipsterness: The Lumberjack Look—New Yorkers try to look like Minnesotans by wearing flannel,…

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The Brightest spots on Cedar Avenue

BY ED FELIEN In Scandinavian countries people paint their houses bright colors to contrast with the bleakness of winter.  Minnesotans generally paint their houses white, and sometimes the unrelieved whiteness of winter can become overwhelming.  That’s why it is such a treat to drive down Cedar Avenue and see the…

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Raina’s Wellness: A healthy summer rainbow

BY RAINA GOLDSTEIN BUNNAG Have you ever heard that you should eat a rainbow of produce?  This isn’t just because it looks pretty, a variety of colors is crucial for a healthy diet.  Eating the whole color spectrum ensures that you are getting a range of nutrients and health benefits.…

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More than 5,000 people marched in St. Paul on Saturday, June 6, to stand up against the Enbridge Pipeline, which would send the highly dangerous tar sands oil from Canada to Duluth. These young women were part of the delegation from Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church:  (from left) Katherine Parent, Martha…

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Mexican elections: the view from Oaxaca

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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Construction update for Minnehaha Avenue

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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Franklin Avenue Bridge Repair

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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Juno and the Paycock

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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Disappeared Mexican Students

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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