I’d like to resolve, like Susan Mernit, that I’ll blog every day this year. I doubt that I’ll make it – but I’m going to try. And maybe re-make the resolution on the first of every month.
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Pulling back the curtain on the Donald of Oz
The Wizard of Oz came to Duluth last Wednesday and it wasn’t a pretty sight. Hiding behind a curtain of presidential power, he pulled all the usual levers and set his supporters roaring “Build that wall!” and “USA!” Like the Wizard of Oz, Donald Trump is a small man with a big voice and loud […]
Remembering the 1960s (and 70s)
“If you can remember the 1960s, you weren’t really there.”* The old quote has some truth in it, but if you want to remember the 1960s (which really ran over into the 1970s), Dianna Hunter has a book for you. She will be at the East Side Freedom Library on June 19 to read from […]
Recycling and the China connection
My recycling is staying right in Minnesota. CORRECTION 6//19/18 – Eureka has not shipped to China since 2013. After a friend pointed me to a New York Times article saying that recycling is going into landfills, because China has closed the door on U.S. garbage imports, I double-checked. Yes—Minneapolis and St. Paul recycling still stays […]
Lies about gangs and the school-to-deportation pipeline
“They’re not people, these are animals,” Trump says. He says they are pouring into the country, committing vicious, brutal crimes, terrorizing Long Island. He lies. The New York Daily News reported that even his own administration members don’t back his claims: “Carla Provost, the acting chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, noted during Senate testimony […]
Ripped from the headlines—and from his mother’s arms
“On Feb. 20, a young woman named Mirian arrived at the Texas border carrying her 18-month-old son. They had fled their home in Honduras through a cloud of tear gas, she told border agents, and needed protection from the political violence there. “She had hoped she and her son would find refuge together. Instead, the […]
Mary Turck
Mary Turck
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