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Charles Stenvig, a cop with no political experience, won the Minneapolis mayoral race in 1969 on a law-and-order platform. The independent’s victory over endorsed DFL and Republican candidates stunned the political establishment. It also raised concerns among human rights advocates that Stenvig, who had fought against investigations into police brutality while he was president of the Minneapolis Police Officers Federation, would use his office to continue the fight.Charles Stenvig One of Stenvig’s first appointees to the city’s Commission on Human Relations was Antonio “Tony” Felicetta, a former truck driver who had run Teamsters Local 792 for more than 30 years. The South High dropout helped organize Local 792 in a series of violent skirmishes among beverage-truck drivers in the 1940s. A 1998 obituary in the Star Tribune described him as “one of the city's most flamboyant labor leaders, a self-promoter who drove a purple Cadillac and outfitted his … [Read more...] about Sept. 15, 1969: A tough-talking human rights commissioner

What's making news in Minneapolis: House panel vote leaves VIkings stadium deal in peril: The proposed public subsidy package for a new Minnesota Vikings stadium was decisively rejected by a House panel late Monday night, leaving the team and stadium supporters visibly stunned. In an early sign that the project faced trouble, Rep. Joyce Peppin's 15-member House Government Operations and Elections Committee blocked an attempt to void a Minneapolis city charter provision that requires citizens to vote on spending city money for a new sports facilities. (Mike Kaszuba) Fate of Minnesota schools' integration aid hangs in limbo: A task force's recommendations that could determine how Minnesota schools spend $108 million in integration aid is apparently stalled this session. That means schools will continue to spend the money as they have. Under the current formula, Minneapolis gets $480 per pupil, St. Paul gets $445 and Duluth gets $206. But some other districts with high … [Read more...] about Tuesday roundup: Stadium deal in jeopardy, local chess champion, integration aid in limbo

It has been a while since I have written here, time has been slipping away from me this summer just hanging out and enjoying my children.   I have noticed this summer I have been a lot more relaxed, a lot less stressed and just sort of 'going with the flow'.  By looking at me and talking to me, you would really think that life is just easy going right now, nothing major happening and all is good and really, all is great to me right now in my family, my life, and well yeah, I just can't seem to get phased by anything right now.  Which absolutely makes no sense with all the chaos of my husband's work, our financial uneasiness and whatever else there is in life that can go wrong.  We are under an extreme amount of stress right now with money, income, work, you name it, however my husband and I are really feeling like we are protected from it all, so long story short, I have nothing to write about this summer because to spite what the world … [Read more...] about Healthy Living the Raw and Local Way