We now have a new set of Minneapolis Park Board Commissioners. During the campaign the candidates aired some of the same old ...

In 1990 Ed Felien started the newspaper Southside Pride to protest the First Gulf War. Southside Pride has always been an anti-war paper. So it seemed like an anti-war article was what I should write ...

Starbucks workers are on an open-ended strike. I continue to stand in solidarity with Starbucks Workers United. I call on the ...

The awful, awful thing about bureaucracy is its cold indifference. Many of my colleagues sought comfort, salaries and pensions while wallowing in self-pity and whining like gold medalists. Humanity ...

Memory of even recent history is being lost. To review early warnings: Thirty years ago, Boris Yeltsin argued vehemently ...

What happened with the November elections? Everywhere there was a Blue Wave, a rejection of Trump and his policies. In New ...

A while back I reviewed a place that was not only a chain (small and local, but still a chain) but it was in Rochester, Minnesota. Nobody complained, so this month I am going to push the envelope even ...

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) did another survey about the Hiawatha Golf Course project in February. The following results are a best effort to categorize the comments.

Although you will be reading this in December, or later, I wrote it in November, which is American Indian Heritage Month. I thought for that reason, plus the fact that the past few years has seen a ...

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 ...

The history of summer camps goes back further than you would think. Maybe that’s why I came across many camps for “pioneers” while researching the topic. Created by Canadian Anglicans, the Soviet ...