Opinion
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Chris Coleman's Continuing False Claim
Shortly after his election for a first term as Mayor, Chris Coleman stated that alternative routes for the Central Corridor LRT line, including a route running north of University Avenue, have been studied repeatedly. During his campaign for a second term, Mayor Coleman continued saying that the northern alignment was studied, and that the study determined that the northern route "wouldn'MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Opinions on Ranked Choice Voting
On Nov. 3 voters saw a major ballot change for City of Minneapolis municipal elections.MORE »
OPINION | Getting by
In September, the Bugle asked readers to submit stories of "getting by": how people in the past lived frugally. We'll be publishing some of these submissions in the coming months, and we'll keep a cumulative list on our Web site. MORE »
Purple Rain
After weeks of cold, rain, and even an early October snow, my duty as a proper Minneapolitan was clear-cut this Sunday, a day which had shaped up to be among the few acceptable fall days of the year. Sunny, breezy, practically balmy. My marching orders had arrived: Get outside.MORE »
OPINION: Small acts can challenge corporate power
Sometimes it pays to act small. Grab a cup of coffee at Tillie's Bean instead of Starbucks; shop at your local food co-op instead of Cub; bank at the credit union instead of TCF. The benefits? Small family- and community-owned businesses reinvest their dollars in the community. It's a win-win for, well, almost everyone. MORE »
The idiot monster and the news
That our news media is busted will come as no surprise to consumers of vanishing newspapers, shoutfest TV "news shows" and the unchecked political soapbox called the Internet.
But the devolution of our news media has now reached a point that is in some ways so extreme, and with the stakes for democracy so high, it seems useful to take stock.
Larger and larger swaths of the news media now embrace sensation and celebrity, harshly partisan rhetoric and gossip, rumors and lies to beat the competition and grab market share.
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Letters to President Obama by 140 Minnesota Tibetan children
St Paul, October 31, 2009: Today the school and the subjects taught were quite different at the Tibetan Cultural School in Minnesota. It was not a Halloween surprise, rather the 140 children aged between 5 yrs to 15 yrs were asked to send a message to the US President Mr. Barack Obama, before his first presidential visit to China.
FREE SPEECH ZONE } La lucha globaliza cada día: Justice and Dignity For Lorenzo Sampablo Cervantes and Fong Lee
Paramilitary repression and police brutality continue unabated on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border after three years of the assassinations of Lorenzo Sampablo Cervantes in Oaxaca, Mexico and Fong Lee in Minneapolis, MN
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OPINION | Men need to weigh in on rape
Just last year, in St. Paul, a woman was raped in an apartment building. She fought like hell to try and keep him off her, screamed loud, but nobody came out to help.
Doors peeped opened and quickly shut. Somebody must've at least dialed 911, because the cops did show up—after the fact (which is not to blame the police, who can't come until they are called).
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FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK | Commenting on comments
Margaret Reinhardt writes:MORE »
"Sometimes I think that newspapers have lost their way given the competition with other news sources particularly television. Newspapers have always had something that TV news doesn't: the opportunity for readers to provide feedback via commentaries, letters to the editors, and op-ed pieces. Along comes online newspapers with a quick way to allow feedback, and publishers are back in the game of attracting readers. Indeed reader comments are popular, but are they the right thing to do?
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