BY POLLY MANN Certainly well-educated, prosperous African-American men can find justice in the system, but what about those who do not fit this picture? The incarceration rate for African Americans is so high that young black men without a high school diploma are more likely to go to jail than…

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BY ED FELIEN CORRECTION: Last month in this space, in an article entitled “Hiawatha Beach to close permanently,” our lead sentence said, “The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will close Hiawatha Beach permanently this summer.”  We indicated later that this proposal was part of a “long-term” plan, but we were…

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BY ED FELIEN Don Olson, a notorious Southside radical and anarchist, and a dear friend, once commiserated with me when I was exhausted running Modern Times Café in 1982. His family used to run a restaurant. He said about his parents, “They always worked the B Shift. You had to…

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BY ELAINE KLAASSEN Every human being has the right to live in safety with the opportunity to secure food, clothing and shelter. If these rights do not exist in the land of one’s origin, one must go in search of them. That is, it contradicts one’s survival instincts to stay…

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It’s THE BIRD!  Thanks to all our readers for their wonderful suggestions for names for our new football stadium.  After careful consideration, we think Gayle Bonneville’s suggestion sums up what Zygi Wilf and the last Mayor and the last City Council gave to the Minneapolis taxpayers.  They flipped us The…

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BY ED FELIEN The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office has declined to prosecute Jeffrey Rice for driving his car into a crowd of demonstrators in front of the Third Precinct station on Nov. 25.  They told Southside Pride: “After reviewing all of the facts from the police investigation, prosecutors determined that…

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BY JOHN KARRIGAN I received another raccoon report and this time the raccoon (or raccoons)had been seen in the park.  That reporter also had a good backyard Northern Flicker report. Since then I might have located a Flicker nest in the park, plus a Flicker has been in our back…

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BY CHUCK TURCHICK Yes, you can fight City Hall, and sometimes even win a little something. When the Minneapolis Police Conduct Oversight Commission (PCOC)—the citizen body that took over all the Civilian Review Authority functions other than actually hearing cases involving allegations of police misconduct—held its first meeting in October…

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BY ED FELIEN At a demonstration on Nov. 25 of last year in front of the Third Precinct station at Lake and Minnehaha, Jeffrey Rice drove his car into a crowd of demonstrators.  Southside Pride encouraged demonstrators to contact the County Attorney’s Office with information about the incident with the…

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BY ED FELIEN On Martin Luther King Day, Monday, Jan. 19, about 2,500 people marched from Snelling and University to the State Capitol.  They attempted at points to march down Interstate 94 but were detoured to side streets by a battalion of the Highway Patrol. They were protesting, among other…

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BY CARLA WALDEMAR Spoon & Stable 211 N. First Street 612-224-9850 www.spooonandstable.com Phone now. Then you’ll at least have a head start on those who hesitate till they’ve read the story. Even so, plan on a lo-o-o-ong wait to score a prime-time table. Instead, we accepted (read: jumped at) the…

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BY RAINA GOLDSTEIN BUNNAG These days it seems that everyone considers her/himself a health expert.  The internet has become a whirlwind of health advice.   Many of us go online to look for a remedy for a medical condition or for tips to lead a healthier life.  While it’s great to…

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BY ED FELIEN Names for the new Vikings stadium are coming in fast and furious.  The response has been fast, and many of the names reflect taxpayer fury. Jim Graham wants to call it The Bam, as in the Great Bamboozle. Gayle Bonneville wants to call it The Bird.  Janet…

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BY ED FELIEN The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will close Hiawatha Beach permanently this summer, and it’s not clear whether they will open even part of Hiawatha Golf Course for the season. At its Feb. 4 meeting, the planning committee of the park board accepted and approved the Nokomis-Hiawatha…

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