‘Cover Stories’ Archives
Two lives well lived together
By LAURA WATERMAN WITTSTOCK It is often said of two people who have been together for many years that they give great gifts to one another beyond the gifts of love and caring. That and much more was true of David and Linda Back McKay, married for thirty-five years before her untimely death. Linda was a young and published poet when she went to KFAI in the Phillips Neighborhood, drawn to its volunteer strength and driven by her own desire to learn prose writing in the hot atmosphere of news deadlines rather than in a cool, dry academic classroom. There she met David McKay in about 1983. David taught her how to meet deadlines by selecting and re-writing the latest news items that would be of interest to KFAI listeners. COURTESY OF THE McKAY FAMILY David McKay and Linda Back KcKay (April 21, 1947 - September 17, 2019) In the early 80s the radio station was a primary news source, tuned into by thousands of listeners in the pre-internet and pre-cellphone days. News was [...]
”˜This is our Rondo – we just don”™t know it yet”™
Historians collecting stories from people who lived in path of I-35W in South Minneapolis TESHA M. CHRISTENSENHistorians Denise Pike (far left) and Greg Donofrio (far right) of the University of Minnesota lead a walking tour of Interstate 35W, traveling on both sides of the freeway to talk about how the interstate cut through a neighborhood. They are working to collect stories of people displaced by the interstate construction. Email donofrio@umn.edu or pikex063@umn.edu. Public meeting on history set for Oct. 10 at Hope Community. by Tesha M. Christensen Does Minneapolis have its own Rondo? Some believe that the more they dig into how Interstate 35W was planned and built through South Minneapolis that they will discover a missing neighborhood, similar to the one destroyed when Interstate 94 cut through St. Paul”™s Rondo neighborhood. “This is our Rondo,” said Shawn Lewis who grew up in South Minneapolis. “We just don”™t know it [...]
GROUNDBREAKING ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING
COURTESY OF THE RED LAKE EMBASSY With prayer, song, speeches and gold shovels emblazoned with Ojibwe floral patterns, the Red Lake Nation broke ground Saturday, Sept. 14 on a 110-unit complex in Minneapolis at the site of the former Navigation Center. About 15,000 American Indian people live in the Twin Cities metro area.Â
