Tag: Community Voices
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Community Voices: Stalled West 7th Improvements Are On The Community, Too
On Monday, October 29, I attended my 86th community meeting about the future of transportation on West 7th Street. I was not expecting much. I…
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This is what thoughts and prayers feels like
By Jonathan Dickman, MD, PhD Previously I wrote how “thoughts and prayers” were not enough for gun violence prevention. After the Annunciation Catholic Church school…
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Community Voices: Taking One’s Ball and Going Home
Dear editor: Thank you for publishing Ramsey County Commissioner Rafael Ortega’s column about where the money previously set aside for the Riverview Corridor will now…
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God Bless Carl Bentson
There is a hole in the heart of West 7th Street now. Carl Bentson, 62, has died. He was a friend of many of us…
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A News Era
Shortly after initiating the acquisition of Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk posted, “For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively…
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Community Voices: The End of Light Rail
By Kent Petterson Congratulations West 7th neighborhood! The sudden end of the Riverview Corridor Transit Study was unexpected but, I believe correct. What began as…
