St. Cloud man is jailed after khat shipment
Times staff report • October 9, 2009
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. Cloud police arrested a 25-year-old St. Cloud man after intercepting a package that held 21 pounds of the drug khat, also known as graba.
Adil M. Ali was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of fifth-degree possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute. He was taken to Stearns County Jail.
Khat, a leaf that is chewed, is a legal stimulant in many countries, but it is illegal in the United States.
Investigators with the St. Cloud Drug Unit learned that a shipment of khat was headed to St. Cloud from Kenya on Oct. 1. Officers headed off the shipment and then determined Ali was the intended recipient, according to police.
Police are still investigating and expect to make more arrests
Friday, October 9, 2009
Letter: Those who hate city are welcome to leave it
Letter: Those who hate city are welcome to leave it
By Gene Mills • St. Cloud • October 8, 2009
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Del.icio.usFacebookDiggRedditNewsvineBuzz up!TwitterI was prepared to offer my thoughts on the two folks who recently submitted a scathing letter in the Times denouncing my town as a racist community. (“Reports past, present prove racist attitudes,” Sept. 30.)
I knew my thoughts wouldn’t be published in the Times for obvious reasons. Instead, I’m proud to say we never hear my town called White Cloud anymore. Perhaps it’s because we now have several schools with a very high minority enrollment.
People who support that letter hate the town I’ve called home for nearly 50 years. My advice to those people: Don’t let the door hit you in the rear when you leave my town. Good riddance, friend. I hope you find a town where everyone thinks exactly the way you think.
It must be tough living with hate.
By Gene Mills • St. Cloud • October 8, 2009
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Del.icio.usFacebookDiggRedditNewsvineBuzz up!TwitterI was prepared to offer my thoughts on the two folks who recently submitted a scathing letter in the Times denouncing my town as a racist community. (“Reports past, present prove racist attitudes,” Sept. 30.)
I knew my thoughts wouldn’t be published in the Times for obvious reasons. Instead, I’m proud to say we never hear my town called White Cloud anymore. Perhaps it’s because we now have several schools with a very high minority enrollment.
People who support that letter hate the town I’ve called home for nearly 50 years. My advice to those people: Don’t let the door hit you in the rear when you leave my town. Good riddance, friend. I hope you find a town where everyone thinks exactly the way you think.
It must be tough living with hate.
Letter: Reports past, present prove racist attitudes
Letter: Reports past, present prove racist attitudes
By Michael Davis • St. Cloud and • September 30, 2009
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Del.icio.usFacebookDiggRedditNewsvineBuzz up!TwitterCompelling evidence indicates St. Cloud's historic and continuing racial problems demand:
A functioning and reliable human rights office with enforcement authority.
Constant investigation, intervention and monitoring from outside.
Dependable tools for discrimination redress.
And an aggressive NAACP, for once.
Despite denying, downplaying and/or ignoring facts of St. Cloud's "inglorious" or "sordid" racial history (as cited by Star Tribune columnist Doug Grow and described in letters to Twin Cities' high schools, 2002), cause-effect relationships establish relevance.
For anyone daring to investigate, available details of community racism shout from St. Cloud Times' archives, Stearns County Historical Museum documents and conclusions from a plethora of critical studies.
Claims of historical irrelevance presented in the Sept. 19 Your Turn "Critics offered limited solutions," by Mike Landy, conveniently dismiss the cumulative impact of illegal slaves, Bettye King's critical Saudia report and University of Minnesota Law School findings of up to 7-to-1 race-based profiling.
A letter from Landy to the Council on Black Minnesotans in 1998 stated, "If the Black Community wishes to move forward quickly it should seek the path of least resistance first before it chooses to be confrontational."
The "path of least resistance" appeases the status quo. At what point does a history of injustice become relevant enough to confront, defy and force change?
The Aspen Institute in 2008 selected St. Cloud among 42 communities nationwide to study race relations. Evidently, Aspen researchers recognize relevance in past and present patterns of racism.
St. Cloud had double the hate crimes of other Minnesota cities, according to 2006 FBI statistics, with few arrests. And we don't think history is relevant? Racism remains. ("City addresses hate;" St. Cloud Times, 11/24/07); "Hate group activity flourishes: Movement on rise again, report finds" St. Cloud Times, 12/21/07)
The effect is justice denied, thus relevance.
By Michael Davis • St. Cloud and • September 30, 2009
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Del.icio.usFacebookDiggRedditNewsvineBuzz up!TwitterCompelling evidence indicates St. Cloud's historic and continuing racial problems demand:
A functioning and reliable human rights office with enforcement authority.
Constant investigation, intervention and monitoring from outside.
Dependable tools for discrimination redress.
And an aggressive NAACP, for once.
Despite denying, downplaying and/or ignoring facts of St. Cloud's "inglorious" or "sordid" racial history (as cited by Star Tribune columnist Doug Grow and described in letters to Twin Cities' high schools, 2002), cause-effect relationships establish relevance.
For anyone daring to investigate, available details of community racism shout from St. Cloud Times' archives, Stearns County Historical Museum documents and conclusions from a plethora of critical studies.
Claims of historical irrelevance presented in the Sept. 19 Your Turn "Critics offered limited solutions," by Mike Landy, conveniently dismiss the cumulative impact of illegal slaves, Bettye King's critical Saudia report and University of Minnesota Law School findings of up to 7-to-1 race-based profiling.
A letter from Landy to the Council on Black Minnesotans in 1998 stated, "If the Black Community wishes to move forward quickly it should seek the path of least resistance first before it chooses to be confrontational."
The "path of least resistance" appeases the status quo. At what point does a history of injustice become relevant enough to confront, defy and force change?
The Aspen Institute in 2008 selected St. Cloud among 42 communities nationwide to study race relations. Evidently, Aspen researchers recognize relevance in past and present patterns of racism.
St. Cloud had double the hate crimes of other Minnesota cities, according to 2006 FBI statistics, with few arrests. And we don't think history is relevant? Racism remains. ("City addresses hate;" St. Cloud Times, 11/24/07); "Hate group activity flourishes: Movement on rise again, report finds" St. Cloud Times, 12/21/07)
The effect is justice denied, thus relevance.
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