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MAC has begun construction of an $11-million environmentally-controlled
skyway linking Humphrey Terminal passengers with the lightrail transit station at the Orange parking ramp across the terminal approach roadway. It
is to be completed this fall—for a price, MAC notes, that is nearly 50 percent
below first estimates, due to recessionary conditions in the construction
industry.
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Is change in the air?
For airlines, yes
BY DICK SAUNDERS AND BOB FRISKNEY
A number of recent developments in the Minnesota and national airline industry point to some dramatic changes coming soon to MSP.
Among upcoming local changes:
On paper, you won’t have to endure more than three hours waiting on a tarmac to take off before your plane will be required to return to the gate.
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Questions for DFL candidates for Governor
BY ED FELIEN
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John Marty |
Southside Pride asked four of the leading candidates for Governor what they thought about three critical policy issues: a single-payer health plan for
Minnesota, public subsidy for a Viking stadium and solutions to the state fiscal deficit. Margaret Kelliher and R. T. Rybak did not respond. However, since both were active and public supporters of the billion dollar Hennepin County sales tax to support a Twins stadium, it could be assumed that they would support a similar subsidy for the Vikings.
State Senator John Marty will seek the DFL endorsement for Governor. Former U. S. Senator Mark Dayton will not seek the endorsement but will run in the DFL Primary.
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Republicans declare class war in Minnesota
BY DAVID RUBENSTEIN
It doesn’t resonate like “let them eat grass,” the words of advice that a trader named Andrew Myrick had for some starving Sioux Indians in 1862, but it’s getting there. Taxpayers, according to Republican State Senator
Geoffrey Michel, “have had to learn to live within their means, and they
expect government to do it too.”
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Picking a police chief
BY TONY BOUZA
 An old unforgotten friend called to ask for advice on selecting a police chief. He was briefing a newly-elected mayor.
I work as an expert. Not because I served forever in the role. I never learned anything from my few and piddling triumphs. But I took away invaluable insights from the many times I applied, made the list of finalists and was jettisoned for prettier faces: Boston; NYPD; Montgomery County, Md.; Dade County, Fla.; Seattle; New Orleans; Philadelphia come to mind.
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Walking away from a mortgage
It’s not that easy or common to walk away from a mortgage
BY STEPHANIE FOX
If you listen to media coverage about the current housing and mortgage crisis, you are likely to hear tales about people who are walking away from their mortgages when they find themselves owing more on their homes than their homes are worth.
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Obama’s nuclear blunder
BY JANET CONTURSI
President Obama has made yet another bad decision, one that will likely harm your children and grandchildren, and generations of your family, for centuries.
On Feb. 16, Obama announced another bailout—this time for the nuclear power industry, those goodfellas who have given us dangerous nuclear reactors, a few more terrorist targets, and a whole lot of toxic waste that nobody wants in their back yard.
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Is Israel a nation of laws?
A response to last month’s article by the Israeli Consulate
BY FADIA ABUHAJJ,
a Palestinian American living in South Minneapolis
I recently read a letter on your website entitled “Who are the families Ryan Olander was trying to help?”, a response to the article “Freedom for Ryan Olander, justice for Sheikh Jarrah.” This letter was penned by Renie Schreiber, press officer, Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest. I was dismayed (though not surprised) that the author would have us believe that, despite the overwhelming body of evidence to the contrary, it is in fact the Israelis that are the victims of occupation and land confiscation at the hands of Palestinians and that this injustice has been occurring for more than 100 years.
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JCRC response to Tilsen
The following is a response from the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) to David Tilsen’s article last month, “Ten days in the Cairo Corral,” about his attempt to go to Gaza to march in solidarity with the people of Palestine.
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Minneapolis School Board elections
BY DAVID TILSEN
This coming November we will elect five School Board members, two citywide, and three from districts.
Citywide candidates:
T.Williams (incumbent) is the elder on the School Board, and, in my opinion, the wisest. He will wax philosophical and his many years of activism allow him a historical perspective that often lays a new perspective on issues at hand. Mr. Williams is seeking reelection, and should be returned to the board. He says the board needs more people who understand public policy and how large organizations work.
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The Resurrection: Born Again
BY BARNABY DEVITT
 The glorious Christian holiday of Easter Sunday happens on Sunday, April 4. It’s always the Sunday following the first full moon after the March equinox. Passover, the Jewish holiday celebrating the flight from Egypt, is on the night of the full moon and is March 30. This year the equinox is on March 20 at exactly 5:32 in the afternoon.
The sun will pass directly overhead. Actually, the sun will not pass overhead, but we will revolve, and the sun will seem to be directly overhead. Because of the earth’s wobble, from now until the summer solstice the sun will seem to rise further and further in the northern sky and the days will get longer until after June 21 when the wobble of the earth will start to swing back and the days will get shorter.
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Letter to the editor regarding Barnaby Devitt
Correction:
Mary Ann Pollard wrote to Barnaby Devitt:
Per your article in Southside Pride for December, 2009, re: Immaculate Conception. WRONG! The Immaculate Conception was when Mary was conceived in St. Anne’s (Mary’s mother) womb. Check any Catholic calendar and you will find March 25 is the Feast of the Annunciation when the Archangel Gabriel announced to Mary that she was to be the Mother of God. Is that not 9 months?
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How corporate money took over Washington and created the mobs who rant against reform
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Despite a constant racket from the forces of the far-out right (Fox television's yackety-yackers, just-say-no GOP know-nothings, tea-bag howlers, Sarah Palinistas, et al.), the great majority of Americans support a bold progressive agenda for our country, ranging from Medicare for all to the decentralization and re-regulation of Wall Street.
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March 2010 
