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What I saw at the MN Women’s March

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE I wasn’t going to go originally. I didn’t want to go to DC because I think it’s hypocritical to protest pipelines and not even think about your own fuel consumption, so I think about fuel consumption all the damned time. I thought there will probably be…

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Go to your precinct caucus April 4

BY ED FELIEN The city DFL will be holding precinct caucuses on April 4.  Anyone who cares about this city and their community should attend.  The caucuses will elect delegates who will endorse a candidate to represent their community on the City Council at a ward endorsing convention on either…

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Hundred Flowers, 1970 (continued) 

BY ED FELIEN The cover on our next issue was a cartoon of James Binger wringing dollars out of an anti-personnel bomb with pennies dropping down to a worker in the Honeywell plant.  It was a promotion for a demonstration against Honeywell.  That was what we did best, led cheers…

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Go to your precinct caucus April 4

BY ED FELIEN The city DFL will be holding precinct caucuses on April 4. Anyone who cares about this city and their community should attend.  The caucuses will elect delegates who will endorse a candidate to represent their community on the City Council at a ward endorsing convention on either…

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Saying good-bye to Adrian’s Tavern

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Adrian’s Tavern, beloved institution of Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis, closes forever on Jan.10. Adrian’s was tucked into a small slot between the Parkway Theatre and, most recently, Town Hall Tap. There has been a business in that space since the 1930s, and a place called…

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We support Patricia Torres Ray

BY ED FELIEN If Keith Ellison gets elected chair of the Democratic National Committee in February, the DFL will endorse a candidate to replace him.  Five and a half years ago we ran the above photo and caption of Senator Patricia Torres Ray on the cover of Southside Pride. In…

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Putin’s Puppet

BY ED FELIEN It’s the biggest deal he’s ever done. If he gets this done, he’s the richest, most powerful man in the whole world. It’s worth a trillion dollars. And it wipes out the billion dollars he owes the Russian oligarchs and Gazprom for bailing him out of his…

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