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Jul 4, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
If this charter amendment gets on the ballot I want the new department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention to have a division of Shutting Down Lyndale. Led by someone with #BanCars experience.
I've thought this for a long time. Every car is a potential getaway car. The only person in your life you can really trust is a pedestrian.
The last thing we need is someone from Andover coming into the city with a trunk full of space for who knows what. I hear it on the news all the time and I still don't know where Andover is.

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Jul 12
The Minneapolis Park Board previously asked Blue Line light rail planners to ditch a flyover bridge at the Lowry Station at Theo Wirth Pkway. Now some commissioners are critical of plans for an at-grade crossing, which was developed in consultation with Park Board staff.
Here's existing conditions compared to what's being proposed. The parkway would jog to the right, creating more park space. The tracks cross the parkway at-grade and the station (pictured in yellow) would be built underneath new sections of bridge for W Broadway Ave.
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Commissioner Becka Thompson who represents North Minneapolis compared the plans to "a movie that I loved when I was a child... The flyover was really dumb, and this [at-grade crossing] is dumber." She called it "absurd."
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The cat tour is Wednesday, June 26. This is an unsanctioned event. There will be no place to park. I can't protect you if things go sideways.
Neither I nor the cats get paid for this. The cat tour has no staff, no security. If anyone in a uniform asks, we are just hundreds of people out for a stroll who have nothing to do with each other.
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Jun 19
Using research compiled by a reader (some of it pictured here), Wedge LIVE confirms that Nextdoor user Carol Becker has been actively posting under two Reddit accounts. Both were created within a three day span in late April: MplsDoodleDoodle and MplsSpaniel. Image
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Memo from the Minneapolis chief HR officer about the city's workplace culture. Complaints are received at nearly 3x the rate of other organizations. Complaints by city employees are significantly more likely to be substantiated as valid when compared to other orgs (60% vs 45%). Image
Charting the turnover rate across all city departments going back to 2014.

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Nice to see Lisa Bender again today. Can't believe I'm old enough to say it was 10 yrs ago I got my start covering local politics watching brand new Council Member Bender endure n'hood meetings full of people very disgruntled that she had different priorities from her predecessor
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"Why legislators want to end Minneapolis 2040 lawsuit" minnpost.com/state-governme…
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After losing the political debate, a relatively small number of 2040 opponents had the wealth & endurance to get the courts to offer a new interpretation of state law. Up until this case, comprehensive plans were widely understood to not be subject to environmental review
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