Supreme Court ruling distracts us from true healthcare reform

Jul. 5 | They have done it again: The one percent, the power structure, the ruling class, take your pick, has used their media to distract us from yet another of their attempts to enrich themselves and their kind. This time it’s disingenuously named Health...

Drone attacks outside of war zones are wrong and evil

Jun. 20 |     “We always knew that drone strikes were wrong, that they encroached on Pakistan’s sovereign territory. We knew that innocent civilians had been killed. However, we did not realize how callous and cruel it could be. The community...

Occupy Homes is right — foreclosure is a moral issue

Jun. 6 |     As Mayor Rybak and the City of Minneapolis scramble to make clear their role in home foreclosures, the stand taken by Occupy Homes is making it clear that this issue is not black and white and that at bottom there is a moral component....

People’s stadium passes at high cost

May. 30 |       Opponents rallied to block approval of taxpayer-financed stadium     News Analysis By Mel Reeves Contributing Writer   In an effort to discourage the Intergovernmental Relations Committee vote on Thursday, May...

Target is targeted for hiring practices

May. 23 |     News Analysis By Mel Reeves Contributing Writer   At first glance it may seem that Take Action Minnesota’s efforts to encourage companies, particularly the Target Corporation, to hire ex-felons is misdirected. After all, some...

Easter’s significance: The powers that be don’t have the last word

Apr. 11 |     In the rush to prove that they are past ancient superstitions and religious observance, many missed the real significance of the Easter season, namely that it has real social and political significance for the doubters and naysayers...

Blame government inaction for the Trayvon Martin tragedy

Mar. 28 |     I disagree with the brown-skinned man in the White House who said about the Trayvon Martin murder, “All of us have to do some soul searching to figure out how does something like this happen.” We know exactly how this kind of thing...

As stadium bill gets lawmakers’ attention,‘People’s Hearing’ takes on housing crisis

Mar. 21 |     GOP denies formal hearing on suspending home foreclosures   News Analysis By Mel Reeves Contributing Writer   Last week, on the same day that the Minnesota legislature held its public hearing on whether the Minnesota Vikings...

Whitney was one of us

Feb. 29 |     Whitney Houston was one of us; she was a human being with all the angst, pain and limitations that brings. She was a woman living and fighting the applied stigma of the “weaker” and by implication the second-class sex, in, yes, what...

Where’s the outrage over local Black unemployment?

Feb. 15 |   Support HIRE’s campaign against Minnesota’s ‘economic apartheid’   The time for talking is past. Last year the Economic Policy Institute reported that the Black unemployment rate in the Twin Cities was as much as three and a...