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Raise Your Voice: The Voice of Minnehaha

Peter Molenaar. Image provided by author. By PETER MOLENAAR Like many in this neighborhood, I don’t entertain expensive vacation plans to distant places, but prefer to explore the natural beauty which surrounds and embraces our city. Dakota trails along the Mississippi and Minnesota are known. Minnehaha Creek contains the spirit as well, but upstream from the falls, the bed is bone dry now. Indeed, the dry bed of Minnehaha whispers its own truth, yet MAGA Republicans say it ain’t so. Meanwhile, the Republican Party candidate for Governor has declared that investment in public education is a “black hole” (get it?). Evidently, the concept of reparations in the form of early childhood education is beyond their mental capacity… fixated as they are on granting more tax breaks for the rich and super rich.Moreover, Keith Ellison, our hard working, mild mannered “people’s attorney” is opposed for the office of Attorney General by a hedge fund attorney! Hedge fund? [...]