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Several months ago, a right-wing activist sneaked into ACORN offices with a hidden camera and a fake prostitute. They shot some footage that made it appear as if the staff of that ACORN office gave tax advice about how the woman might falsely declare her income as well as set up a child prostitution ring. Continue Reading
A couple nights ago at UROC, a large community room was packed to standing room-only capacity during a neighborhood meeting about light rail options in North Minneapolis. Continue Reading
A couple days ago, I went by Local D’Lish to buy some organic dishwashing liquid and some locally raised eggs. Store owner Ann Yin always has some interesting information to share about the local and organic foods movement.
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Janet Joy Mattice — who goes by “Joy,” most of the time — has spent many years in the real estate biz. I met Joy through a would-be real estate deal that didn’t go through, but at least I had the Joy of knowing Joy.
Joy’s real passion is the welfare of animals, in particular cats. The mortgage meltdown has thrown many people out of homes, and this disruption of the social fabric keeps rolling downhill until it hits hard the most helpless in our society: poor dumb animals. Continue Reading
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Jeff Skrenes — who, a moment ago, posted video about the most recent Hawthorne Huddle — passed on some information which was related to him at that meeting from County Commissioner Stenglein, which Stenglein asked SPECIFICALLY for Jeff to pass on to Johnny Northside. Continue Reading
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This morning, I was at a friend’s house and her dog barked, suddenly. It was his urgent bark, his “action on the block” bark. We looked out the window — just as we’d looked out the window a few days before and saw the “amubulatory urinator”. I tell ya, you never know what you’re going to see when you just look out the window as our neighborhood undergoes radical, positive transformation/revitalization. Continue Reading
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It was back in June, back during the first days of extended summer visitation with my son, that I made a 311 complaint about a building I could see along the light rail line … but it was tough to figure out the address. I blogged about it in a post about doing 311 “the hard way,” click here for that blog post. Continue Reading
