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The battle inside the DFL

February 13, 2017 February 13, 2017

BY ED FELIEN Precinct caucuses are coming up Tuesday night, April 4. On that night, the DFL starts all over again. The goddess Aphrodite (Venus, in the Roman pantheon) was extravagant in her affections, but every night she would return to her father, Poseiden, the god of the sea, and…

Crockpots rule at NENA

February 13, 2017 February 13, 2017

BY STEPHANIE FOX The First Annual Great Nokomis East Crock-Pot Cook-Off is history and taking home the championship trophy was Jakob Gant, whose Creamy White Chicken Chili received 33 votes. The Feb 4th event, held in Lake Nokomis Lutheran Church’s basement, raised $400 for community projects, including the Bossen Renters…

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Proposed amendment would legalize marijuana in Minnesota

February 13, 2017 October 28, 2017

Things are happening in Minnesota as some lawmakers have introduced the first “legalization” bills, as you may have heard on the news. Please right away call your state rep and state senator asking them to End Prohibition! Tell them that public opinion wants Minnesota to follow Colorado, California, Oregon, and…

Go to the movies

February 13, 2017 April 28, 2020

BY DAVE TILSEN I love movies. I also love theater, live and recorded music, television, watching sunsets, my grandchildren, OK, OK, way down deep I am shallow, but I am going to talk about this year’s movies, and what I expect and wish the Academy of Motion Pictures Sciences would…

A new coalition in Minnesota: Resist From Day One

February 6, 2017 February 6, 2017

BY SARAH MARTIN On Jan. 20, Inauguration Day, a coalition of over 75 Twin Cities local and grassroots organizations took to the streets as part of national Inauguration Day protests. Sparked by the election of Trump, the Resist From Day One Coalition MN was created to bring together a growing…

Fidel and me

February 6, 2017 February 6, 2017

BY TONY BOUZA Reader’s Digest used to have a feature called “The Most Unforgettable Character I Ever Met.” Set me to thinking. Malcolm X ranks high, but my No. 1 choice would be Fidel Castro. I first met him in 1959 when he attended the U.N. session in the fall and,…

Powderhorn Birdwatch: Paradise Park challenged by tree loss

February 6, 2017 February 6, 2017

BY JOHN KARRIGAN One American Robin—near the lake, northeast corner. That was my park bird for Jan. 31. I also saw three American Crows fly over the park. I was considering the above paragraph for my complete February column, but I know Editor Ed would not accept that, so I…

What I saw at the MN Women’s March

February 6, 2017 February 6, 2017

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…

You’re giving them WHAT for Valentine’s Day?

February 6, 2017 February 6, 2017

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE What do you usually give or receive for Valentine’s Day? Chocolates, jewelry, Valentine cards? Maybe, if you or they are lucky, a hot date. Or if you or they are both lucky and rich, a trip to Paris or somewhere in Thailand or Hawaii. Boring. Unthematic.…

Theatre in the Round’s ‘A View from the Bridge’

January 18, 2017 January 18, 2017

BY ADAM M. SCHENCK In a Jan. 14 New York Times article entitled “Women Who Voted for Trump, in Their Own Words,” a woman says,“I went to Minnesota, and I had a Somali cabdriver who lectured me for 35 minutes to the airport about how women in America have too…