Category: Feature
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Jerry Rothstein, longtime Community Reporter editor, steps into new roles
For more than twelve years, Jerry Rothstein could most often be found somewhere between Cossetta’s and Sibley Plaza along West Seventh Street, a notebook in his pocket,…
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Racism in Medicine
West End Healthline By Jenny Zhang, MD The use of race in medicine has been an area of fierce debate for many years. Supporters of race-based…
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Lunch with a Friend
by Tim Rumsey In October, 2019, I was reading a handbill after enjoying my lunch at Day by Day Café.Lost Family Member: Lorenzo Rossi52 years old7…
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West Seventh branch of BankCherokee set to close
by David LambAfter forty-two years in the neighborhood serving the clients who came and went from its location at 675 Randolph Ave. and building partnerships with…
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158 Years Post-Emancipation, St. Paul Turns to Reparations
by David Lamb “This is where I used to live,” Linda Garrett sometimes tells her grandchildren as they zip down I-94 through St. Paul. But instead of…
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Shall we return to the way things were?
Voices of the West Endby Jerry Rothstein This is the first installment of Voices of the West End, a new series in which neighbors discuss essential questions…
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Thermostats and norms
Building CommunityThermostats and norms No one had touched the thermostat, but within minutes of his beginning to speak one could literally feel the chill in…
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Modern Medicine’s Promising COVID Vaccine
West End Healthline By Jonathan Colin Rizo, MD, PGY2In December 2020, The BioNTech-Pfizer BNT162b2 and Moderna mRNA 1273 vaccines were granted emergency use authorization for the prevention…
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Fighting for Better Transit
Letter to the EditorBy James Schoettler and Kent Pettersen For any transit project to succeed, community members—the very people who hope to someday use the…
