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Yeah, I don't see a reason why Minneapolis Public Schools shouldn't be under state direction. Consistent mismanagement by unserious people paired with an irrational electorate that doesn't want solutions. This isn't a Minneapolis-only problem, but it is exacerbated there by years of bad charter ...

https://www.startribune.com/timberwolves-lynx-arena-support-new-ownership-public-assistance/601889671

Of course they want money from Minneapolis...


Is that a problem?


Yes, the public should not have to shill out for billionaires.


My opinion, if you want to share the cost with the ...

Do the building owners even care with the buildings being investments and etc? Could another organization buy, or get get rights to retail spaces and then lease them out, subdivide, make improvements and etc?

I also believe we need to create a corridor with some marketing name that starts at the ...

Is there an amount of bad job that the school district could do that would result in negative electoral consequences for the school board? The experience of basically every big city school district over the past fifty years suggests that there is not really a bottom.


The school board is ...

Can someone explain to me why they are doing this. It seems like something the school district should not be investing time and money in given their current enrollment and financial situation. But I am not apart of the community that wants this school so I may be missing something.


I think ...

Bakken2016 wrote: June 25th, 2026, 8:15 am Why have they not opened the food hall yet? Give people more options to eat off Nicollet Mall.

This should be a focus of the city. Get folks in a room from the City, Developer, Hospitality Industry, etc and make it happen.

And there's probably not an ideal way to do it given the major freeway interchange and ramp traffic at 35W/Washington. Maybe a bike bridge could be built next to the flyover for 35W to 3rd St, allowing easy biking from Hiawatha LRT bike trail behind Sherwin Williams across 35W to the 3rd St ...

https://engage.publiccoordinate.com/en/project/minneapolis-neighborhood-traffic-calming-2026

Minneapolis opened an interactive map to comment on the planned traffic calming projects for this year.


Saw a stolen car use a speed hump as a jump last weekend. Car went into the air, landed and hit ...

What is the point of the bikeway? It would have been better to make improvement's on Bryant. The stoplights and intersection on Lyndale are too busy. Folks aren't going to see you on the bikeway. It's like riding on a sidewalk. The drivers are trying to pull out of Aldis in the middle of a busy ...

The center includes space for BCR and Neighborhood Safety which are alternatives to MPD. Consolidating all these departments in a space which need to work together seems to further the goal to diversify our 1st responders responses. Additionally, it appears this was a recommendation of a Human ...

Hopefully, they can convert them to housing. One idea would be to take the inner part of each unit and make it a storage space for each unit. New homes have so much more storage than space than 30 years ago. Folks are used to filling up garages and large closets.

I don't know about a cutout ...

Nationally, I believe it helps us with the left and hurts us with the right.

Locally, I think the divide between rural MN and the cities is only becoming more stark. More folks who saw the Twin Cities as crime ridden and terrible now see it as full of fraud and containing individuals who ICE ...

The GAF facility between UHT and Lowry is closing. Some employees were saying the city wanted them out for UHT parking lot. But, I don't see this parcel as part of the plan. I'm guessing it will be sold for housing or etc?

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-business/minneapolis-roofing-facility ...

I think part of it has to do with online sales including bikes. Accessories are so much easier to buy online. Helmets and specific bike parts/upgrades during a maintenance are still items I buy in bike shops. But, I'm not buying lights or locks unless I need them right away.


I'm afraid a lot of ...

Retrofitting pedestrian tunnels in the news with Edina moving closer to a $20M tunnel under France

https://www.startribune.com/edina-france-avenue-pedestrian-tunnel/601517917

Internally I’m grumbling over the tunnel as “costly” or just a “benefit to developers”

I wonder if $20M is in the realm ...

I just found out Farmstead Bike Shop has closed. We've lost so many bike shops! Especially independent neighborhood shops that feel like they are part of the community and are for everyday cyclists who don't want fancy stuff.

I used to go to Hub on West Bank and also Venture North in North Mpls ...

If Bryant Ave north of Lake Street was at the same level as it was south of Lake Street, I could almost be inclined to agree with you. The current state it is in is rather awful however. Tight squeezes by cars coming in either direction between double sided street parking. Don't even get me ...

Cautiously optimistic that they've realized that Lyndale Ave doesn't need bike paths because they'd be redundant with the Bryant Ave facilities, and are therefore prioritizing other users in the limited available ROW.

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I take the 16th Ave N Bicycle Blvd instead of the fancy Plymouth ...

I didn't understand the Park Board either! I thought I would get to pick my 3 for at Large, instead you pick one and rank somehow the top 3 get in? What is the percentage to stop 2nd round? When each of the top 3 have at least 1/3?

I think HERC might be a difficult option if the decommissioning process takes awhile.


What about on one of the 3 blocks between 5th St and 8th St between Portland and Park? The county already owns two of the blocks and from what I could tell HCMC isn't planning expansion there. It would be next ...