Vanished problems and their consequences

BY TONY BOUZA Ours is an activist, not a reflective, society.  Our shelves groan under the weight of “How to …  ,”  not “What if … ,” books.  Yet I’ve always been intrigued by Conan Doyle’s “The Dog That Didn’t Bark.”  Why not?  What did it mean? It meant something—and that’s…

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The growing of Lake Hiawatha

BY ED FELIEN Ron Sundboom went to a meeting last year to hear about the future of Hiawatha Golf Course. One of the experts at the meeting said that the depth of Lake Hiawatha was 33 feet. Ron asked where he got that information. The staff person said from Wikipedia.…

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MAC plan to raise the noise is put on hold

BY ED FELIEN After a boisterous public hearing on Aug. 27, the Metropolitan Airports Commission decided to defer approval of its expansion plan.  As Dean Amundson reported in earlier editions of Southside Pride, the MAC plan “will accommodate an estimated 54 million passengers by 2035 (their numbers).  That number will…

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HERC is No. 1! in arsenic emissions

BY LARA NORKUS-CRAMPTON According to the Energy Justice Network’s (EJN) analysis of the most recent 2011 National Emissions Inventory (NEI) data self-reported to the EPA by the garbage incinerator industry, HERC is: #1 in arsenic emissions (31% of the emissions from 65 incinerators reporting) #2 in chromium VI emissions (19%…

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The Bay of Pigs, April, 1961

BY ED FELIEN I was working for the University Theater Department Box Office delivering flyers for an upcoming show.  I was climbing the long marble steps to the big auditorium on campus, and I noticed a small group of demonstrators holding picket signs saying, “Hands Off Cuba.”  I knew some…

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Co-op Creamery Café

The Co-op Creamery Café celebrated its Grand Opening as a part of Open Streets/ Franklin Avenue on Sunday, Aug. 16.  The Co-operative Creamery Building got a modern annex built on its eastern side, which has housed the office space for Seward Co-op since the spring. In addition to the cafe…

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Corbyn win moves Britain left

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Quite early on Saturday, Sept. 12, in fact before it even was Sept. 12 here, the ballot counters in the British Labour Party leadership election announced that “outsider” Jeremy Corbyn was the decisive first ballot winner. He won with just under 60% of the votes, which…

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Selby Avenue JazzFest 2015

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The Golden Thyme Coffee Café is not very big, and doesn’t have fancy food or elegant decor. It has decent coffee—from Peace Coffee—and is a friendly local hangout on a mostly residential stretch of Selby Avenue in the Rondo neighborhood of Saint Paul. But once a…

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Queen of Cuisine: Skinny Dipping

BY CARLA WALDEMAR The Melting Pot 80 S. 9th Street 612-338-9900 www.meltingpot.com I recall a memorable fondue party I hosted as a young bride. The hot oil spilled upon the fuel and the tablecloth went up in flames. Nonetheless, I still love fondue. But these days, I leave it to…

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A small but important election

BY ED FELIEN Barcelona.  In January, the president of Catalonia, Artur Mas, called for new parliamentary elections to be held in Catalonia on Sept.27.  Mas has called for Catalan independence since 2012, and he has declared that this new parliamentary election will be a plebiscite on Catalan independence. If his…

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