Cory Haala

Was discussing the amount of profanity used in my manuscript, and realized, disappointingly, that I cut out this line from some of Roxanne Conlin's interview prep in Iowa's 1982 gubernatorial race.

Couple more #NewDealMinneapolis stops along the way:
* Lynnhurst: standard repairs, grading + equipment, but also this 12" drain outlet into Lake Harriet flowage - still original, I think
* Pearl: dirt f/airport used to fill lake, added fields and tennis courts.

32 mi
Next: ♖

First 30-miler of #NewDealMinneapolis!
West Minnehaha Pkwy (to Chicago):
* Sewer meter bldg -- Edina property (gross) but built by WPA workers for the Mpls Park Board
* Riprap, esp by Lyndale (pic'd)
* GREAT drain at Minnehaha + 5th WITH marker!
* Bridge @ Dupont
* Curbs throughout
(1/2)

Postponed 30-miler (little under the weather) BUT needed a #NewDealMinneapolis ride. SO!

* Workhouse Site (now Bohannon): newly-graded fields, 4 tennis courts
* Camden-Webber: tennis courts, tons of picnic tables, and a great bridge/stairs on Shingle Creek

16 mi.
Next: 🤏🏻😂➡️🦪

Time stamps show my descent into madness as the copyediting process continued. Marketing questionnaire shows...well, how to pronounce "Haala," I guess. (And/or how uncool I am.)

Both sent off to @illinoispress.bsky.social as of this morning! "When Democrats Won the Heartland" inches closer!

luv 2 get these great #mnufc updates from @theathletic.com

While in Grand Marais for a bachelor party, did I leave the group while we were downtown, go to the local historical society, and talk to the staffer about internships and/or speaking to my students?

Of course I did, because I have no life and/or like my job.

GAH NOT COOL, WHO ASKED FOR THIS

The real treat was the upper part of Riverside Park:
* Beautiful CWA (FERA?)-built bathhouse, 1934
* Sluiceway at 6th and 27th
* This limestone cascade 👀
* Now-overgrown retaining walls
* Beautiful staircase on lower grounds
* Sod, grading, ballfields, etc.

24 mi
Next: 🦪💎
#NewDealMinneapolis (2/2)

Two-parter today:
* Currie (Sixth Ward): rare WPA-constructed park, built 1940 for local "congested" neighborhood -- today, Cedar-Riverside. (Still congested!)
* Normanna Triangle: sod, benches?
* Murphy Square: sod, grading, benches
* Svea Triangle: sod
#NewDealMinneapolis (1/2)

For some reason I'm hearing this in a Welsh accent. Don't hate it, though.

Just a leader of the family farm and anti-GATT/NAFTA movement telling me to come to his Minneapolis home, where there's a folder on a never-cited 1980 farm convention for me.

We talk. He brings another book..another...another...and now I'm back in grad seminar.

Lots to read, and cite, soon!

#NewDealMinneapolis where the WPA magic happened:
* Lyndale Farmstead: where ALL the park equipment was built! 3 bldgs all gone, but stucco walls + gymnastics equipment remain
* Kings Hwy: curbs
* Lyndale Park: tool shed, grading
* Nicollet Field: sod, park prgms

29.76(!) mi
Next: 🅰️🦅

In 1986 eventual primary losers to Senate nominee Ed Garvey sued him and the Wisconsin Action Coalition.

In 1992 Tim Penny attacked Paul Wellstone and the Wellstone Alliance after they helped David Minge flip MN's rural 2nd District.

Centrists dislike grassroots enthusiasm. The more things change!

This all feels a LITTLE too on the nose, right, @jeffmanuel.bsky.social?
www.mesabitribune.com/news/minneso...

Good night to play some cribbage, win, and watch the Loons do Loon things on set pieces.

A 4/4 Teaching Load Becomes Law at Most of Wisconsin’s Public Universities The mandate, included in the state’s new budget, applies to full-time faculty across the University of Wisconsin system — except at the two R1 universities, where professors must carry 2/2 loads.

Sweet. Officially a 4/4 until I die and, not from the article (just a fun tidbit), a provost trying to take our surveys (of which I teach 3) from 40 to 50.
www.chronicle.com/article/a-4-...

but i just wrote my long book (and now have copy edits in said book)

can't i write my short book instead

Simple #NewDealMinneapolis ride:
* Columbia Park: picnic tables galore, tennis courts, etc
* Columbia Golf Course: limestone facing, course redone, pedestrian bridge, more I wrote about 5 yrs ago: coryhaala.org/midwest/minn...
* St Anthony Blvd: curbing. lots.

15.7 mi
Next: ↗️↗️⛳

WHAT A #NEWDEALMINNEAPOLIS RIDE:
* Bassett's Creek Park: bunch of firsts -- stamped athletics benches, 1937 mill dam rebuilt, limestone-faced footbridge and retaining walls, and THE TENNIS COURTS!!!
* Bryn Mawr: little left, originally diamondball fields and 75,000 yds of fill

19.6 mi
next: ↗️⛳

Got way too excited about this #NewDealMinneapolis find: original WPA-poured concrete on the courts at Bassett's Creek Park. Might be my favorite pic/find of this project

Who wants to be the first to hit with me here? Optional pre-lecture on the WPA.

The Zohran Mamdani SAT Debate is at least a departure from press releases about geriatric senators' medical maladies?

Reminded me of when a North Dakota D-NPL senator released his colonoscopy results, then physically bullied his opponent at a debate: coryhaala.org/uncategorize...

This was such a good line and, along with the reminder about George W. Bush's "Get down to Disney World" exhortation, actively changed how I taught my 1990s and 2000s lectures.

Holy crap, Grigor Dimitrov just tore his pec and had to retire up 2 sets to 0, on serve in the third against Sinner. Heartbreaking stuff at Wimbledon. Thought it was finally his moment.

Teaching a section of US I online this summer, and students upload their notes for credit. One student, on the colonialism lecture, appears to have reached his breaking point.

Compass | Insurgent Democracy author Michael Lansing Interview | Season 1 Author and historian Michael Lansing is interviewed.

All this concern about city-owned grocery stores. Please remind them, your loved ones, your neighbor, whomever: North Dakota has a state-owned bank and grain mill. It works. Well.

Read Michael Lansing. Watch Northern Lights. Learn about this tradition of state ownership: www.pbs.org/video/compas...

Raihala: Meet the Minnesotan who coined the term ‘gay pride’ and tossed a pie in Anita Bryant’s face After the Stonewall riots in 1969 sparked the gay liberation movement, Thom Higgins gave it a name.

Happy Pride everyone. I wrote a column about gay rights pioneer Thom Higgins, who called Minnesota home for most of his (too short) life. I really want more people to know the story of this remarkable guy. Please read and share (gift link)!

Exciting to bike Sumner Field, which was west of Phyllis Wheatley House (NW corner 8th/Aldrich), hub of Black life in racially segregated #NewDealMinneapolis.

WPA built the public housing (1938, demo'd 1998) + park (also redone), funded female workers at Phyllis Wheatley. (3/3)

First stop was odd. See the triangle that looks like a yard? It's Oliver Triangle, a spit of public land the WPA resodded in 1936.

Parks historian David Smith wrote about it: minneapolisparks.org/parks-destin...

#NewDealMinneapolis (2/3)

Today's #NewDealMinneapolis: 6 parks, 0 trace of WPA markers. Good ride in Near North.
* Barnes Pl, Lovell Sq, Cottage Pk: little pocket parks got sod, trees, one 🎾 court?
* North Commons (gif): got all those tennis courts, plenty of work, but all since redone

BUT WAIT. (1/3)