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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Is Bernie Sanders just a Facebook meme or is there a real, honest campaign building to get him nominated? The good news is, there is a lot more going on than just Facebook and email campaigns. A group called MN4Bernie formed soon after the unexpectedly large…

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Seward Co-op held a very successful job fair on Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Sabathani Center. This was a culmination of months of bridge-building and outreach in the surrounding neighborhoods of the second grocery store, the Friendship store, currently under construction on 38th Street, across from Sabathani. It is also…

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BY LARA NORKUS- CRAMPTON A recent article published in the online periodical Politico gives a glowing review and revisionist history of our 27-year-old Downtown Garbage Burner, HERC.  The article is part of the “What Works” series, which lists JP Morgan Chase Bank as a sponsor as of April 2015.  Perhaps…

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BY JOHN KARRIGAN I was gone most of the month of August and very little of the time was spent incarcerated. Mostly I was in Alaska with some time in the Seattle area. Back home in Powderhorn, I see that the lake water is still quite high and the grass…

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BY ED FELIEN FAA statement on July 31: “On Friday, July 24, the Federal Aviation Administrat-ion temporarily suspended certain operations on Runway 30-Left and Runway 35 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.” They suspended operations because the heavy congestion was causing planes to intersect each other’s flight patterns while trying to…

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The Midtown Farmers Market is a great place to use your SNAP/ EBT (food-stamp) benefits! When you spend $5 with your EBT card, you receive $5 in free Market Bucks*.  Just visit the Market booth, swipe your EBT card, and you will receive one wooden token for every dollar you…

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BY ED FELIEN Probably the first illegal immigrants on Chicago Avenue (before it was a city street) were the Ojibwe.  In 1745 the Lakota lived in the area around Chicago Avenue, but the British gave guns to the Ojibwe, their allies in Canada and New England, and the Ojibwe used…

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BY JULIE KNOPP When I was growing up in Fresno, Calif., my family lived next-door to Matzi and Norman. My parents sometimes exchanged greetings with them during evening walks. When my sister was born, Matzi brought over a gift for the new baby. Our families started to form a friendship.…

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Charley Underwood, longtime Southside Pride garden columnist, wrote on the Minneapolis Issues List:  I was out foraging this afternoon, scouting out several of my favorite places to gather juneberries (aka serviceberries or saskatoon, etc.).  One of those places is along the grassy strip between the parking lot and Minnehaha Falls. …

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BY ED FELIEN No, not that King. King’s Fair is coming to Matthew’s Park on Sept. 19. Every two years the Seward Neighborhood Group puts on a neighborhood fair at Matthews Park that is meant to commemorate the King’s Fairs produced by Colonel William S. King at that site, from…

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BY ED FELIEN Last fall the City of St. Paul approved a loan to replace seating, carpeting, drapes and concession stands at the Grandview Theater on Grand Avenue.  They had already approved $166,250 in July for new seats, plumbing and carpeting for the Grandview and the Highland theaters.  The new…

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BY ED FELIEN FAA statement on July 31: “On Friday, July 24, the Federal Aviation Administrat-ion temporarily suspended certain operations on Runway 30-Left and Runway 35 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.” They suspended operations because the heavy congestion was causing planes to intersect each other’s flight patterns while trying to…

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BY ELAINE KLAASSEN For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.   – Baruch Spinoza There are many ways to work for world peace. One of them is to create the world we…

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BY POLLY MANN There has been no media attention given to the after-life of President Obama once he leaves the White House.  My hope is that he will continue to make criminal justice a big part of that life, especially the part of the criminal justice system that deals with…

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BY COLE MORGAN NICHOLS AND COOPER Anders Billund Phibbs is a 17-year-old queer artist and activist, and the founder of QYA Magazine, a Minneapolis-based online queer arts periodical. In his work, Anders illustrates and identifies much of what is wrong with the commercial and commodified image of queer people and…

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