“Maybe we’ll wake up and this will all be a bad dream.” I think that’s the sentiment of many these days. Our world seemingly changed overnight and many of us just long to go back to the piddly struggle of getting up every day to drive to work. The trouble is, it’s unlikely we’re going
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As the weather has warmed in my Midwestern town, my neighborhood is full of children on bicycles pretending to be riding through the Wild West. I can’t walk down the sidewalk without stepping on chalk drawings or hopscotch boards. There are children jumping rope and playing ball. In the eight years I’ve lived here, I’ve
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Since 1987, Kris Wyrobek has owned and operated 7-Sigma Inc., a manufacturing company on 26th Ave. in south Minneapolis that employs some 50 people. Wyrobek says that after helplessly watching his plant burn during last month’s riots, he has no plans of sticking around. “The fire engine was just sitting there, but they wouldn’t do
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Could 2020 possibly get more strange? J. K. Rowling, creator of Harry Potter, has been canceled. That’s right. The author beloved by millennials everywhere, a generation who came of age alongside the boy wizard, has now been called out by their younger, more woke, siblings. Her crime, ironically enough, is to deny the power of
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Following a week of protests and riots in Seattle, government authorities abandoned the police’s East Precinct headquarters and left protestors to establish the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.” What the police left behind of their barricades were quickly repurposed to mark out the protestors new territory, complete with a sign welcoming visitors to “Free Capitol Hill.”
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First came the riots and the protests. Then came the surrender and disbanding of police forces. All in response to the death of George Floyd. What started in Minneapolis has now spread nationwide. No longer is Minneapolis alone in ordering police forces to flee their home turf, now a police precinct in Seattle has also
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