‘Commentary’ Archives
Minneapolis Encampments: A Stone Around The Neck
A call for more stringent social service screening Dwight Hobbes By DWIGHT HOBBES I survived homelessness and can say first hand that since at ‘92, this city has dealt with it like a cat covering up its waste. For instance, a couple years ago or so, the community welcomed Powderhorn Park’s tent city only to have cars vandalized and people trying to burglarize homes. So, Minneapolis took an “everybody out of the pool” approach and the disenfranchised, notably women with children simply trying to get by, were thrown out. Bad actors committing crimes, including assault and rape in the encampment proved a stone around their neck, endangering and ultimately costing decent, flat broke folk what little shelter they’d found as they desperately tried to get system assistance. Now, we’ve seen a dozen shootings within days, to which the response amounts to useless hand wringing on one hand and a shut the whole thing down answer on the other. The ongoing crisis calls [...]
Spirit of Phillips Jan ’26
An unpublished cartoon from August 1988! Part 12 of a 13 Part Series... Dave Moore & Linnea Hadaway have lived here since the Reagan 80s and became life partners while originating the cartoon series “Spirit of Phillips.”
On Becoming Human Again
from the series Raise Your Voice... By PETER MOLENAAR Peter Molenaar At the corner of Lyndale Ave. and 31st St. there is a place called Redeemer Rehabilitation. Upon passing their examination, the facility saw fit to discharge me subsequent to my July 4th stroke event. As for the afterlife… let it be said, I never committed any great sins, except for my failure to adequately honor my mother and father. But, MAGA-MAGA, why do the oceans now rise against us all? Whence the destruction of hurricanes? Were the ancient ones not free to respond to Nature’s stimuli? Do we not all descend from ‘primitive communalists’ who, after foraging, returned to the village to receive the honor of sharing? But now, MAGA-MAGA, we suffer your tariffs in order to fund a ballroom for billionaires! Was Jesus not a communalist who sought to restore the human personality? MAGA-MAGA, let us begin again… by returning the Black Hills to their rightful owners. PETER MOLENAAR advocates a [...]
