Are Hiawatha Golf Course pumping numbers meaningful?

BY KATHRYN KELLY The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) states that keeping the 18-hole Hiawatha Golf Course dry requires too much pumping of groundwater. But are their stated pumping volumes for dewatering of Hiawatha Golf Course accurate? Documents and data that we received from the MPRB and the DNR…
More funding, fewer cops

BY ETHAN BESSER FREDRICK Minnesotans have never paid so much for police departments only to have so few officers. In some places, police are disappearing altogether. In August, the police department of Goodhue, Minnesota, abolished itself – the entire department resigned for better paying jobs elsewhere. This is the most…
City Council elections

BY ED FELIEN City elections are coming up on Tuesday, Nov. 7. All 13 seats are up for grabs. Here’s who we like: Ward 1—Elliott Payne. He votes right all the time, very progressive, without grandstanding. Besides, he’s a Black Diaper Baby. Children of communists and leftists are called Red Diaper Babies. Children of Black Panthers…
Is Avivo the answer?
Celebrate fall at 42nd Street and 28th Avenue
Open Streets Lyndale is an autumn celebration
The state of public education
Autumn at Midtown Global Market
Celebrate Fall in Dinkytown
The Dish – Openings and closings, food news, reviews and rankings from others, and my mini-review from GA
The Tampa 5 – students face jail
Chief O’Hara and the MPD’s new structure

BY KAY SCHROVEN Changes Ten months into his position as the 54th chief of the Minneapolis Police Department, Brian O’Hara is encouraged, especially about the recent restructuring of the department. He is also acutely aware of the challenges the MPD faces. O’Hara accepted the position knowing he would be walking…
Murray on Assange, whistleblowers and the press

BY AMY BLUMENSHINE On the recent anniversary of 9/11, over a hundred people came to hear whistleblower and former British ambassador Craig Murray at the Hook and Ladder. A Scotsman and career diplomat for the United Kingdom, Murray had been ambassador to Uzbekistan as our “Global War on Terror” was…
Crazy priorities at the Park Board

BY KATHRYN KELLY On a recent beautiful Sunday afternoon I took a drive around the Nokomis-Hiawatha neighborhood. Nokomis Park has numerous softball fields along Cedar Avenue, but they were empty and unused. The plentiful tennis courts in the neighborhood were also unused except for one of five courts on 43rd…