‘Commentary’ Archives
Pouring Gasoline on the Fire
from the series Something I Said... By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes ICE’s approach in South Minneapolis has been to douse the fire by pouring gasoline on it.In the aftermath of Renee Good’s murder by agent Jonathan Ross, instead of reining ICE in, more were dispatched. Just as prone to gunplay. Two of whom, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer Raymundo Gutierrez and Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, assigned to Operation Metro Surge, killed Alex Pretti. To make things worse, both deaths were falsely accounted for. Department of Homeland Security Secretary DHS Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Renee Good “attempted to run a law enforcement officer over an act of domestic terrorism.” Video footage shows Good simply trying to wend her way through chaos as Ross shoots her through the driver’s window as he stands next to the car, in no danger of being hit at all, much less run over. Alex Pretti was helping a woman to her feet when an agent shoved them both to the [...]
The Food Desert is Expanding
from the series Peace House Community Journal... By MARTI MALTBY Marti Maltby Food Deserts are neighborhoods where residents lack adequate access to food. Residents of a country as wealthy as the United States shouldn’t have to worry about getting enough to eat. In other words, we shouldn’t have Food Deserts. Unfortunately, in a country where economic statistics carry more weight than human need, things don’t run as they should. In the last six months, two feeding sites that served take out dinners in Ventura Village closed. Between them, they were serving over 700 meals a night. I don’t know the situation in the other neighborhoods covered by the alley, but I suspect many residents there rely on feeding sites or food shelves to meet one of the most basic human needs. Economics says that the United States is still the wealthiest country in history. The number of people going hungry say that economics is measuring the wrong things. Understandably, a lot of the [...]
Spirit of Phillips April ’26
DAVE MOORE & LINNEA HADAWAY have lived here since the Reagan 80s and became life partners while originating the cartoon series “Spirit of Phillips.”
