Ward Two: Gordon, Aigbogun and … no DFLer

The Minneapolis City Council’s lone Green Party member, Cam Gordon, is used to anything-might-happen electoral outcomes in Ward Two, which straddles the Mississippi River and includes the University of Minnesota campus. But in this year’s race, one thing’s for sure: He isn’t going to finish within 150 votes of a DFL Party candidate, as he has twice before. For the first time in memory (and probably in DFL Party history) no Democrat is on the ballot for city council in a ward that launched the careers of DFL Party titans like Hubert Humphrey and Don Fraser.

Neighborhood Watch: Missing links, kid rock and prison lit

A round-up of headlines from neighborhood newspapers

The sign over Northeast’s Hollywood Theater marquee these days is looking a bit like a hockey player’s smile. The ‘Y’ has gone missing, and the other letters look…