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Tuesday December 16th 2025
Same story: Couple fights, man kills woman, police then self
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Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery
By Sue Hunter Weir
170th in a Series
Although half of the National Rifle Association”™s members report that they own guns to protect their families, their rationale is not supported by facts. A study conducted by the Center for Disease Control found that only 16% of women are killed by strangers””more than half are killed by their husbands, lovers, ex-husbands or former boyfriends. Fifty-four percent of those women were shot. Where there was a gun in the house, a woman was five times more likely to be killed by her current or ex-partner than when there was not.
There is nothing new about domestic violence that ends with a women”™s death and almost as often, the death by suicide of the person who shot her. In fact, there is a certain sameness to these stories. A couple fights (alcohol may be involved, though not always); the man shoots and kills (or tries to) the woman, and then kills himself. It”™s a story that is told over and over again.
FLORA ENGLE
Photo courtesy of TIM MCCALL
Of the three women historians know died from intimate partner violence and are buried at the Pioneers Cemetery, only one, Flora E.
Transit: Lift every voice and sing
By JOHN CHARLES WILSON
I don”™t know much about making freedom ring, but I do know from experience that the old adage “you can”™t fight City Hall” doesn”™t always apply to public transit agencies. They actually do sometimes listen to reasonable requests from the public. The key is to actually show up at public comment forums and use the channels that are designed for that purpose. I have personally influenced two bus routes, both in Saint Paul, through my comments.
I have always wanted to post information about these public meetings in this column. Unfortunately, this is a monthly newspaper with about two weeks”™ lead time between the writers turning in their work and the actual paper coming out, so usually the meetings would be over before you, the reader, would get the information. Therefore, all I can do is point you to the best source of information about such things, and that is the Metro Transit website itself: https://www.metrotransit.org.
At present, there are two major projects Metro Transit is doing preliminary work on that will benefit the Southside Pride readership area: the B and D Lines.
”¢ The D Line will provide a faster equivalent to Route 5 along Chicago Ave.… Read the rest “Transit: Lift every voice and sing”
MayDay in Metamorphosis
HOBT”™s MayDay is taking a year off:Â Save the date for May 2, 2021Â
Dear MayDay supporters and friends,Â
We give deep thanks for the ways each of you have supported HOBT”™s MayDay Celebration. Your support over these 45 years, especially your outpouring of support this year, means a great deal.
Over the last four months, we, the HOBT Leadership Team, have heard from more than 500 community members and artists about their dreams for the future of HOBT”™s MayDay. Themes drawn from this feedback support what we have known for years but have only now documented: MayDay in its current form is not only unsustainable financially and logistically, the creation process systematically marginalizes and appropriates the work of artists of color. This cannot be allowed to continue.
The HOBT Leadership Team has decided that taking a year off from producing MayDay to pause and redesign MayDay is the best way to come back with a stronger, more equitable MayDay in 2021.Â
We know that for some, this is difficult news to hear. We did not come to this decision lightly. In the coming year, HOBT can choose either to produce the MayDay celebration that South Minneapolis has grown to know and love, or to invest our time and resources in rebuilding that celebration to equitably and resiliently continue as a valuable institution for future generations.… Read the rest “MayDay in Metamorphosis”
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