Category: Feature

  • West 7th/Fort Federation Candidates Offer Values, Insights

    West 7th/Fort Federation Candidates Offer Values, Insights

    Dana DeMaster Candidate for President  What makes the Federation mission meaningful to you? Why are you interested in being a Board member? It is important…

  • As Coronavirus Advances, Losses Reverberate Through Generations

    As Coronavirus Advances, Losses Reverberate Through Generations

    by David Lamb With the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 soaring nationally, few communities have been spared the disease’s devastation. What first arrived in…

  • Our Neighborhood at High Risk

    Our Neighborhood at High Risk

    The Wilder Foundation’s Minnesota Compass research arm has released a report that identifies neighborhoods in Minneapolis and St. Paul at high risk for the virus.…

  • The Spirit of Racism

    The Spirit of Racism

    by Tim Johnson, Retired Pastor of Cherokee Park United Church [Editor’s Note: This is the fifth article in Tim Johnson’s series on racism. Comments and…

  • How one West End service provider deals with Covid-19

    How one West End service provider deals with Covid-19

    by Jerry RothsteinAmong the West End enterprises that I would call “iconic,” Sibley Manor is one that provides irreplaceable benefit to fragile and vulnerable members of…

  • When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art and Migration

    When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art and Migration

    By choice or by force. With great success or great struggle. People move or are uprooted, for many reasons. The world is currently witness to the…

  • Medicare Response to COVID-19

    Medicare Response to COVID-19

    Medicare has temporarily expanded its coverage of telehealth services to respond to COVID-19. Go to medicare.gov/coverage/telehealth for details.Medicare beneficiaries can temporarily use telehealth services for common…

  • Challenging Times

    Challenging Times

    From 1968 to 1971 I was witness to death and near-death experiences in West Africa that prepared me for what was to become. What came…

  • The Benefits of Yoga – More Than Just Stretching

    The Benefits of Yoga – More Than Just Stretching

    West End Healthline by Conor Richardson, MDThe practice of Yoga is more than 5,000 years old — from ancient Yogis, to people in the 21st…