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OPINION | "Unusual event" at Prairie Island nuclear facility reminds us our watershed is at stake

By Ed Felien, Southside Pride

There was an “unusual event” on March 6 at the Prairie Island nuclear plant that seems to have escaped the local media but caught the attention of newspapers in western Wisconsin, the Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Chronicle in California and the Miami Herald in Florida.MORE »

Flo Razowsky arrested in Bahrain

By Ed Felien, Southside Pride

South Minneapolis activist, international journalist, playwright and member of the Café SouthSide collective, Flo Razowsky, was arrested on Tuesday, Feb. 14 as part of a group of six international observers who responded to the call of Bahraini human rights activists to witness their revolution.MORE »

OPINION | Support the 99%

By Ed Felien, Southside Pride

The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations that have swept the world have brought important questions into focus. But probably the most important question raised is “Just how much control do we have over our own lives?” The one percent control our banks, our jobs and our government. But, even more important, around the Holiday season, we allow that one percent to control our retail spending.MORE »

General election Senate Dist. 61

By Ed Felien, Southside Pride

State Representative Jeff Hayden won the DFL primary election on Sept. 13. He got 55.8% of the total votes cast, or 1,361, which was almost 58% of the total DFL votes. He got more than twice the amount of his nearest rival, Sadik Warfa, who got 666 votes. Warfa ran a campaign just below the radar, probably concentrating on maximizing turnout in the Somali community.MORE »

OPINION | Are they giving away our parks?

By Ed Felien, Southside Pride

It was just a few years ago that the Minneapolis Library Board gave away our library system to Hennepin County because they could no longer afford to pay for it. It was the first step in transforming a world-class reference library into a pop stand for pulp fiction. Now it seems we’re headed down the same slippery slope with one of the best park systems in the country.MORE »

OPINION | State Senator Linda Berglin retires

By Ed Felien, Southside Pride

State Senator Linda Berglin will retire Aug. 15. She was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1972 by a coalition of neighborhood radicals organized by Reverend Bryan Peterson of Walker Community Church. Bryan was very active in Southside neighborhood politics in the ’70s and ’80s defending housing from downtown developers.MORE »

Another murder in Central

By Ed Felien, Southside Pride

19-year-old Tomika Swoope was walking home from the Southside Deli at 33rd and Chicago where she had bought a Slim Jim for her grandmother. She was outside her home at 32nd and Columbus Avenue when someone drove by and fired about five shots in the direction of her home on Monday, April 25, at 11 pm. One bullet struck her in the head.MORE »

OPINION | Let’s pick on the public employee unions

By Ed Felien, Southside Pride

Government workers got it easy.

Good pay, good benefits and a great retirement package.
What's not to like?

Except when the government budget's got a hole in it because of tax breaks to the rich, and the politicians and the press start screaming about cutting government jobs and slashing wages and benefits.
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