I have always been a longform type of guy. I usually don’t bother with Twitter and stuff like that. I find life too complex, communication too subtle. Catch phrases serve political candidates …
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Eddie Glenn, East Harriet neighborhood
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11/3/22
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The cry of an animal in distress caught my attention one warm August morning. I hurried outside. Animal suffering mostly takes place behind closed doors, at factory farms and research labs, but the …
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By Kristen Olsen
Ericsson resident
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11/1/22
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I am astounded that schools are still spanking students in the United States, even if the use of it is declining. If a parent hit their kids that’s child abuse. If an adult hits an adult …
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11/1/22
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As far as I can tell I haven't died. I am writing this column. The service will take place at Lakewood Cemetery, the site of my internment. Details to follow. The theme of the service will be coming …
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By Donald L. Hammen
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11/1/22
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We still live in a democracy – where the person who gets the most votes, the person who wins the election, is the person who takes office. That could change if Republicans take control …
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Larry LaVercombe
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10/21/22
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September is National Suicide Prevention Month. Suicide rates in Minnesota declined slightly in 2020, but it’s important to remember there were a record number of suicides in 2019, and this is …
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By Sue Abderholden
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9/29/22
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There’s a 10-year-old in our house now, and he took on a few paper routes this summer. That means, of course, that mom did, too.
I was excited he was interested in the family business and …
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Tesha Christensen
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9/28/22
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Today, right now! It's the first day of the first year without my brother. He died! Myself, my sister-in-law, and my nieces – we continue to mourn. Labor Day week-end of 2021 was the last time …
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Donald L. Hammen
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9/21/22
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Minneapolis has 83 residential neighborhoods, 70 neighborhood associations, 13 wards, 11 communities and five precincts. If we do a health check based on gun violence, some of these places are not …
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Eric Ortiz
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9/21/22
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I was not surprised to receive a lot of response to my last column, which among other things, included these sentiments:
“Once you have drunk the Republican Kool-Aid, you seem to …
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Larry LaVercombe
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9/9/22
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Birthdays are about a lot more than eating cake. Of course, it’s always nice to celebrate another trip around the sun. But it’s equally important to remember that we don’t make the …
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Eric Ortiz
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9/9/22
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Being 22, I am on the older end of Generation Z, people born from 1997 to 2012. I am a part of the same ‘cringey’ generation who does Fortnite dances and is obsessed with TikTok videos. …
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Chloe Peter
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9/9/22
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There’s a 10-year-old in our house now, and my son, Axel, took on a few paper routes this summer. That means, of course, that mom did, too. I was excited he was interested in the family …
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By Tesha M. Christensen
Owner & editor
tesha@longfellownokomismessenger.com
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8/31/22
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Today, right now! It's the first day of the first year without my brother. He died! Myself, my sister-in-law, and my nieces – we continue to mourn. Labor Day week-end of 2021 was the last time …
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By Donald L. Hammen
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8/31/22
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Sometimes, it feels like the whole world has gone crazy, and we're all on one big hamster …
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By Eric
Ortiz
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8/3/22
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Without an obstructionist Republican megaphone, these hearings are both coherent and revealing – nothing like what you get when one party is doing everything they can to obscure any progress or …
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By Larry
LaVercombe
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8/3/22
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Gratitude for the life of my brother, Richard A. Hammen, an out-of-town reader of the Messenger. Reader as long as his powers of comprehension were intact. Gratitude for the fact that he was the …
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By Donald L. Hammen
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8/2/22
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Sports have been around since the dawn of human civilization thousands of years ago. But organized community youth sports are a little younger. They got started in the mid-1800s and became an …
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By Eric
Ortiz
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7/27/22
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The 2021 city elections in Minneapolis were historic. We had record-setting turnout, the highest for a municipal election in over 45 years, and elected a city council that has, for the first time in …
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7/27/22
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Law and policy are comprised of words, but it takes committed action to create change. As the new year began in 1863, President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect. However, it …
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By Reva Chamblis
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7/27/22
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