Even if they won't be receiving a reduction, primary residents of means would still benefit from a system that levies higher taxes on second-home owners but not on them.
People might hesitate to run because they feel unqualified, worry about the time commitment, or fear losing. I’d argue those concerns shouldn’t stop anyone.
It’s hard to describe what the current moment feels like for people in the Twin Cities. The scale of the economic impact and the psychological terror falls somewhere between 9/11 and COVID.
For those who are not familiar with these good folks, they are the welcoming faces you see when you walk through the main entrance of Fairview Hospital.
It will not be the courts, laws, councils, a different political party, or any of the old systems and structures that will rescue us from the chaos. What is arising is arising so it may be seen and then may be released.
In the age of Trump, we see people with deep financial resources who have benefited from white privilege using the courts to continue that form of discrimination.
Two words representing opposite forces determine the probably of extinction in the broadest sense—that is, extinction of a business (bankruptcy), a political system, a social state, or a species. The words are complacency and adaptation.
Illegal immigration, increasing healthcare costs, and ICE's and law enforcement's use of excessive force in non-life-threatening situations are all potentially solvable.
Democratic societies do not accept secret police behavior simply because it is directed at unpopular or politically vulnerable groups. History shows that once such practices are normalized, they rarely remain confined.
In order to better understand our geopolitical situation in 2026, we may have to look beyond the repetitive “orange man bad” political soundbite and review the actual events of 2025 that have led us here.
Vietnam-era protests challenged what the government was doing. Today’s protests challenge whether the president himself respects law, truth, or human dignity at all. That distinction matters.
The event was a big success—collecting almost 50 Christmas trees and other holiday greens and multiple boxes of food donations and $1,700 for the Lee Food Pantry, which serves residents from several communities in the area.
