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Read MoreFree At Last: Same-Sex Marriage Victory Rocks St. Paul, Not To Mention Church and State
This post is re-published here from www.theuptake.org An estimated 7,000 people partied down in St. Paul Tuesday, coming to the Capitol lawn and braving record 98-degree heat to celebrate the dawn of a new era: Same-sex marriages are now enshrined in law — a law signed under the blazing sun by Gov. Mark Dayton after a week’s worth of impassioned debates in the Legislature, years of tumultuous...
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Read MoreHappy 50th to the Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band
Over the years, I’ve had a close relationship with the Brian Boru Irish bagpipe band of St. Paul, a band named after the High King of Ireland who defeated the Vikings (defeating the Vikings used to be more difficult in olden times than it is today) at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014. I had these good guys play at my wedding reception. They ate all the food while my wife and I were shaking hands with...
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Read MoreRuby Red Letters: Re-Starting the Beating Heart of St. Paul’s West End?
The developers of the old Schmidt Brewery site in St. Paul — being turned into lofts and apartments after years of disastrous and misguided attempts to make the brewery into a headache-inducing ethanol plant — are thinking about restoring the old S-C-H-M-I-D-T sign. I’m all for it — IF the sign truly looks like the iconic sign that dominated the West End neighborhood...
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Read MoreMinnesota Gun Safety: Shot Down By…Democrats?!!!
This post is re-published from The UpTake, where it first appeared. All winter long, hundreds of gun-carrying opponents of gun safety laws crowded the Minnesota State Capitol, ostentatiously presenting their numbers and their obvious weapons during the difficult debates over proposals to tighten gun safety laws in the state. So I was surprised, upon entering the Gun and Knife Show at the Anoka...
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Read MoreErnest Wabasha: The Burden of History
I was 30 years old, a journalist with a passing knowledge of Indian history. Yet it had never occurred to me, until I came across the name of Ernest Wabasha one day, that people still lived among us who were connected to the terrible events of 1862-63, the time of the so-called “Sioux Uprising” and the exile and banishment of the Dakota Sioux from their homeland. But there it was: The great-great...
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Read MoreMacy’s to St. Paul: Suck It!
A few years ago, I popped into the Macy’s Department Store in downtown St. Paul looking for winter jackets for my three growing school boys, aged 7, 5 and 3. I couldn’t find any warm jackets in the children’s department, so I went looking for the Warm Coat Department I figured must be located somewhere else. I returned to the “children’s” area, puzzled, after a search of...
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Read More150 Years After America’s Largest Mass Execution, the Quest for Healing Continues
HONORING THE 38 I took this video as about 100 Dakota Indian riders arrived in Mankato, MN on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, to honor the 38 Dakota warriors hanged in Mankato 150 years earlier — Dec. 26, 1862 — in America’s largest mass execution. The riders began their arduous 340-mile journey on Dec. 10 at Lower Brule, South Dakota and arrived in Mankato to traditional...
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Read MoreSurvival: Proud Descendants of The Exiled
A pair of bald eagles floated high above the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers Tuesday as a line of Dakota Indians, following in the footsteps of their exiled ancestors, rounded a highway curve in Mendota and marched towards Fort Snelling. And towards a spiritual healing of Minnesota’s most painful chapters — the executions, imprisonments and forced removal of the Dakota from...
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Free At Last: Same-Sex Marriage Victory Rocks St. Paul, Not To Mention Church and State
This post is re-published here from www.theuptake.org An estimated 7,000 people partied down in St. Paul Tuesday, coming to the Capitol lawn and braving record 98-degree heat to celebrate the dawn of a new era:...
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Happy 50th to the Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band
Over the years, I’ve had a close relationship with the Brian Boru Irish bagpipe band of St. Paul, a band named after the High King of Ireland who defeated the Vikings (defeating the Vikings used to be more...
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Ruby Red Letters: Re-Starting the Beating Heart of St. Paul’s West End?
The developers of the old Schmidt Brewery site in St. Paul...
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Minnesota Gun Safety: Shot Down By…Democrats?!!!
This post is re-published from The UpTake, where it first appeared. All...
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Ernest Wabasha: The Burden of History
I was 30 years old, a journalist with a passing knowledge of Indian history....
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GUNS WIN! Shoot-Out at the Capitol Corral
Update on The UpTake: Today, 2-14-13, I ask how Minnesota is supposed to try to...
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Obama Minneapolis Visit Highlights Gun Control Divide
(The following post was written for The UpTake) Story by Nick Coleman....
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