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Southside neighbor Bill Hatton, a Vietnam veteran nearly completely paralyzed by Agent Orange, is anticipating death. He had two final wishes: to feel grass under his feet one more time and to protest ...
Minnesota is not just a beacon of civil liberties, it’s also a national testing ground for economic liberty policies. If you can’t choose where to use your skills and talents, then you’re not really ...
Those of you who were around in the late 1960s and 1970s may remember the young, white “hippies” with shaved heads chanting in the airports and handing out literature about Krsna. They were known as ...
BY DEBRA KEEFR RAMAGE A brief history of Highland Park If you have lived in Minnesota long enough, you have learned that we live on stolen land and from whom it was stolen. Maybe, though, you do not ...
Former Police Chief Arradondo and Mayor Frey weren’t at the Third Precinct when it burned in 2020, but you were there last month at Lake and Bloomington to personally stand between angry demonstrators ...
My wife and I went to the No Kings demonstration at the State Capitol on Saturday, June 14. We drove around the Capitol for more than half an hour and finally found a parking place behind the Capitol ...
You’ve probably noticed it- that expansive 250 acres of green behind the large iron gates along 36th St. near Hennepin Ave. (Uptown.) But have you explored it? There is much to explore, including ...
In 1968 Hubert Humphrey thought he had it in the bag. LBJ had signed the Civil Rights Bill, started the Great Society and began a War on Poverty. It looked like Happy Days were going to be here all ...
The Mayor’s race is the big one. After that, people notice candidates for City Council, and only after that, and only if they follow local government very closely, do they pay attention to Park Board ...
The 11th Ward Convention will be May 31 at Washburn High School, but it’s beginning to look more like a Coronation of the Homecoming King than a normally raucous DFL Convention. Jamison Whiting played ...
In an interview with ABC Trump, admitted he could free Abrego Garcia, “I could,” but, in defiance of a unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court and the rule of law, he said he wouldn’t. Habeas ...
As spring has sprung, the focus about what’s needed to be done around the home and lawn change from shoveling snow to home and garden renovations. Expensive? Maybe. But there are ways to make ...