248th in the series Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery
By SUE HUNTER WEIR
Experience Short Buck (1791-1854) was an early New England transplant to what would become Minnesota. She and her family arrived in the 1850s. PHOTO: Courtesy the family.
On March 31, 1776, as her husband and other members of the Constitutional Congress were drafting a new code of laws for a new, independent nation, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband reminding him to “Remember the Ladies.” Two hundred and fifty years later, that is easier said than done. There are 15 women buried in the cemetery who were born in the 18th century. A few of them, primarily those born in New England, are somewhat well-documented but in other cases there is very little record of them.
What is remarkable about all of them was their longevity. The average life expectancy for a woman born around the time of the American Revolution was 36. All of these women were alive at the time of the War of 1812, and 12 of them were alive during part, if not all of, the Civil War. Their ages at the time of their deaths ranged from 64 to 92. Not surprisingly, the cause of death for seven of them was simply given as “old age.”… Read the rest “Remember the Ladies During the Semiquincentennial”
South Minneapolis activists raised pure hell confronting ICE’s jackbooted, might-makes-right assault on civil liberty. Ensuing national attention on Renee Good’s and Alex Pretti’s murders along with the brutalizing of Alberto Mondragon forced the withdrawal of Operation Metro Surge. In April, U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review got slick, doing an end run, appointing Nathan M. Hansen immigration judge at Fort Snelling Immigration Court. President Donald Trump’s ham-handed administration couldn’t defeat resistance one way, so it went another, in accord with the DOJ’s fast tracking deportations across the country.
As an attorney, Hansen endorsed the harebrained notion of a Democratic higher-ups pedophilia ring operating out of a Washington, D.C. pizza parlor. There were no victims, any evidence, or an actual investigation. He declared property taxes are illegal according to the Minnesota’s State Constitution. He called for the Federal Reserve to be abolished. In plain language, a career-long, dyed-in-the-wool wingnut, who responded to a City of Stillwater Facebook post, “Is there anything we can do to help ICE if we want to?” now decides deportation cases. To make disastrous matters worse, since President Trump took office there’s already an unprecedented low in asylum claims honored.… Read the rest “Here Comes the Hanging Judge”
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Here Comes the Hanging Judge
from the series Something I Said…
By DWIGHT HOBBES
South Minneapolis activists raised pure hell confronting ICE’s jackbooted, might-makes-right assault on civil liberty. Ensuing national attention on Renee Good’s and Alex Pretti’s murders along with the brutalizing of Alberto Mondragon forced the withdrawal of Operation Metro Surge. In April, U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review got slick, doing an end run, appointing Nathan M. Hansen immigration judge at Fort Snelling Immigration Court. President Donald Trump’s ham-handed administration couldn’t defeat resistance one way, so it went another, in accord with the DOJ’s fast tracking deportations across the country.
As an attorney, Hansen endorsed the harebrained notion of a Democratic higher-ups pedophilia ring operating out of a Washington, D.C. pizza parlor. There were no victims, any evidence, or an actual investigation. He declared property taxes are illegal according to the Minnesota’s State Constitution. He called for the Federal Reserve to be abolished. In plain language, a career-long, dyed-in-the-wool wingnut, who responded to a City of Stillwater Facebook post, “Is there anything we can do to help ICE if we want to?” now decides deportation cases. To make disastrous matters worse, since President Trump took office there’s already an unprecedented low in asylum claims honored.… Read the rest “Here Comes the Hanging Judge”