Riverside
This has gotta change!
America the Beautiful
Working for an end to police brutality and murder: It’s a new paradigm
Heartbreak Hotel
Minnehaha Avenue in COVID-19 times
Local Initiatives Support Corp (LISC) helps tenants purchase their building
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BY PETER MCLAUGHLIN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The cost of housing has ballooned in the Twin Cities, and this increase has disproportionately affected low-income renters. For every 10 families who are below 30 percent of the area median income in the Twin Cities, it is estimated that there are only three homes…
Nurses look for solution to unsafe COVID working conditions
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BY ELAINE KLAASSEN Instead of spending their day-off on desperately needed rest and self-care, Twin Cities nurses staged an informational picket in front of United Hospital in St. Paul, demanding “nurse protections” and protesting “United’s retaliation against workers for trying to protect themselves from the COVID-19 virus.” In the early…
A statement by #OurMPS
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In spite of significant public opposition, and amid growing concerns surrounding the short and long-term impacts of COVID-19, six members of the nine-member Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Board voted to approve an expensive, confusing, and controversial Comprehensive District Design Plan (CDD) on Tuesday evening, May 12. Full implementation of the…
All talk, no action
A complaint, a dreamboat and a nightmare
Worth Watching
Great events and shadows
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BY TONY BOUZA It is a bromide and cliché that crises present opportunities—but these are honored mostly in being ignored. The comfortable status quo. The public understands and supports drastic action in a pandemic. The MPD could abandon two-person squads and answer twice the 911 calls—even with a virus-ravaged force.…