Twin Cities' National and Global Image

[Wedgeguy]

Another article from movoto.com about why Minneapolis is so great and underrated...
http://www.movoto.com/minneapolis-mn/mi ... nderrated/

Great list with some big things missing that were brought up in the Facebook comments. Over all a great list that should be used more to promote the city.

[FranklinAveFixation]

West Bank/Cedar-Riverside getting some national media coverage. No mention of the Cedar Ave sidewalk reconstruction

New York Times

[grant1simons2]

This is such bs

[MNdible]

What exactly is BS about this?

[grant1simons2]

"A pipeline to ISIS" yes, that's what we do. We created cedar-riverside so that people from the area could train to join IS. It just feels like they're saying it like no other city in America has people who leave the country to become terrorist. Newsflash, they do and a lot of them are higher than Minneapolis

[mullen]

nice article giving perspective. ie we have a pretty great city here.
http://buffalorising.com/2014/09/lesson ... nneapolis/

[skyrab]

nice article giving perspective. ie we have a pretty great city here.
http://buffalorising.com/2014/09/lesson ... nneapolis/

I think you are exactly correct, "perspective", when away from here for a period of time, it could be overseas or in the States, it is nice to come back and renew the truth, that it is pretty wonderful here, not perfect, always can be better; nonetheless, a very nice place to call Home.

[Didier]

The urbanists of Buffalo seem to like our Whole Foods, for what it's worth.

[Minneapolisite]

Oh no! We've fallen in bike-friendliness behind lowly Chicago of all places! And also behind, what's that place called again? Oh right, New York City. Are we losing our edge as a national model or is this just a glitch?

http://www.startribune.com/local/blogs/274020371.html

[Nick]

Not a real thing, don't click it.

[EOst]

Oh no! We've fallen in bike-friendliness behind lowly Chicago of all places! And also behind, what's that place called again? Oh right, New York City. Are we losing our edge as a national model or is this just a glitch?

http://www.startribune.com/local/blogs/274020371.html

I think Bicycle magazine likes to sell copies of Bicycle magazine.

[Minneapolisite]

Although, NYC did double its number of cyclists and Chicago has been doing some large-scale improvements: Dearborn for example, though much of the Loop is bike lane-less. And yes, they want to sell magazines. I think the biggest thing we can do to stand out from the rest is to tackle those out-of-place arterial, motorist-oriented roads in our busiest commercial districts. It's gotta happen sooner or later, so let's pick sooner. "No biking on the sidewalk" stencils and signs do not count as bike infrastructure and merely highlight that road conditions are not safe enough for many cyclists. Regardless, we are light years ahead of other cities: any time I take what we have for granted I bike in St Paul and am immediately more thankful that I live on this side of the Mississippi.

Speaking of which, St Paul's image in this respect: well, they're not even on the radar and ranking-wise are down there with cities in my home state of Ohio: not exactly models for great cities (my hometown of Columbus didn't even make the top 50 ).

[Anondson]

Twin Cities economy passes Detroit.

http://www.startribune.com/business/275384691.html

[Avian]

Twin Cities economy passes Detroit.

http://www.startribune.com/business/275384691.html

The Strib is late to the party. The Twin Cities' GDP surpassed Detroit's in 2010.

[MNdible]

Per a chart that I saw somewhere accompanying a version of this story, it looked like Minneapolis passed Detroit and then un-passed it almost immediately thereafter, before just now passing it again.

Ahh, this blog post has the chart in question.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if Detroit passed us again, as they've dropped so precipitously over the last several decades that even a modest rebound could be significant. And they do seem to have buzz going right now amongst the hipster set.

[mullen]

tampa bay resident praises our light rail. having lived in tampa couple years public transit there really is abysmal.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/letters ... it/2197468

[NickP]

I live in Tampa now and I agree. It's definitely a car city.

[Nathan]

I couldn't remember where the conversation about Minnesota being last in the Midwest for private job sector growth, but here's this.

http://www.minnpost.com/macro-micro-min ... ign=buffer

[talindsay]

Okay, so I do social science data for a living, and here's some actual federal data from the Federal Reserve:
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/g ... _id=198437

[bubzki2]

Twin Cities ranked among most innovative in US by CNN Money. Highlights Green Line. You'll never guess who we're ranked just behind.

http://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology ... ies/6.html