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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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The Broadway musical version of Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” now showing at St. Paul’s Park Square Theatre, is almost operatic. As such, it is able to showcase the powerhouse of talent that exists in the black community of the Twin Cities. Two lead artists, the…

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BY TONY BOUZA Garrulous geezerhood lends itself most readily to peevishness—so, here are a few: When prominent folks are unmasked as fools, idiots, frauds, sex fiends or pimps, their default position is to kill the messenger. That means the press. Americans—potentially the best informed citizens the world has known—should see…

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BY ELAINE KLAASSEN “Nada menos que todo un hombre” [“Nothing less than a real man”], by Miguel de Unamuno (1864 – 1936), is a novella (long short story) that will rip out your heart. It is so tragic, a needless tragedy, the story of a woman who died of a…

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BY JOHN KARRIGAN Once again I don’t have many park birds to report on, but the backyard birding has been as good as most winter months. We even had a Hairy woodpecker at the backyard finch feeder in mid-January. There have been many days with multiple Goldfinches, Cardinals and of…

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BY THE LONGFELLOW COMMUNITY COUNCIL It was a hot summer day when a group of neighborhood volunteers in Longfellow began thinking of the coming frigid winter and the high heating bills it would bring. What actions could they take now to reduce their electricity and gas bills in the coming…

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