Archive for June, 2024
We Are Secure In Our Votes. That Makes MN #1!
By LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS MINNEAPOLIS This is the second article in the League of Women Voters Minneapolis 2024 Democracy Series. All articles will be available at lwvmpls.org/for-voters As Minnesotans, we understand that exercising our right to vote is fundamental to a healthy democracy. In the 2020 National election, MN was #1 in voter turnout, with just under 80% of eligible voters casting their ballots.Minnesota implements best practices for increasing voter turnout through Accessibility, Security, and Accuracy. AccessibilityMinnesota has historically made it easy to register. In 1974, we became the second state in the nation to allow same-day registration (Star Tribune, October 14, 2022). You can register to vote online with your mobile phone or computer at mnvotes.sos.mn.gov/VoterRegistration/index.The League of Women Voters (LWV) also sponsors events where you can register with a paper application. Paper applications can be printed from [...]
Movie Corner: Limbo
5/5 Stars Music Box/Brainstorm Media, Compliments of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival 43 Crime/ Mystery/Drama/Thriller By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Howard McQuitter II The outback in South Australia is photographed in spectacular black and white in the film Limbo that richly deserves wider release. Limbo is a fictional town, at one time a mining and tourist place.The film opens up with Travis Harley (Simon Baker), a weary, middle-aged detective, driving into Limbo to investigate a missing young Indigenous woman from 20 years ago, Charlotte Hayes. He stays at the town’s only motel: Limbo Motel. A good part of the motel is inside a cave. While he’s in his motel room, Travis melts down an unidentified opioid drug in a spoon and shoots up in his arm with a hypodermic needle. Heroin or fentanyl, or something else, the viewers do not know. (Director Ivan Sen’s Limbo is eerily similar to John Sturges’ 1955 Bad Day at Black Rock.)The first potential [...]
