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I still think we should give the bus drivers garage clickers they can use to change the lights

Title text: 'Jacob Frey has 0 endorsements from state legislators" over subtitle "Meanwhile Minneapolis is lagging behind other cities in per capita stated funding. We deserve a mayor who can partner with the state to advance progress in Minneapolis." above a bar graph that shows Minneapolis at $191, St. Cloud at $230, St. Paul at $265, Brainerd at $364 and Duluth at $406."

After eight years as mayor of the largest city in the state, Jacob Frey has exactly 0 endorsements from state legislators.

Mayor Frey’s inability to work with people at the state and county is holding Minneapolis back and Minneapolis residents are paying the price.

Gonna watch this, but it is needed for someone to actually press candidates for answers. Too many times candidates just say "I'm having those conversations with people about this" in order to avoid answering the question.

I'm guessing it's to play up to the condo owners on the greenway, who are close enough to know/recognize intersection but far enough to where they don't really go there. They think of it as the crime spot and want Elizabeth Shaffer to fix it.

I guess this is maybe the right play for her campaign. This intersection is definitely the area where most "things" happen in the neighborhood and there is never the brightest bunch hanging outside High 5. Not a crime to hang out there, but definitely where her constituency think crime is.

E Bikes are the only shot for the suburbs to become financially sustainable. If they can drastically reduce car usage from ebikes they will cut down on road costs and maybe be able to exist without subsidies.

Truthfully, why didn't we turn every road in Minneapolis into a highway and every block into a parking lot? Then you could drive 60 miles per hour to where you are going and you would never have to look for parking, it would be the block of your destination. We could have one big world of asphalt.

But what will the poor oil companies do, think of the shareholders!

I should look into that! Hennepin?

Star Trib kicked me off of my free subscription that came with my school. I still have access to some articles but in a far worse format (ProQuest). Highly annoying when news publications make students pay to access their content.

The biggest trick with discussing communism, capitalism, and socialism is that people's definitions of each term are wildly different person to person that it often makes it pointless to use those 3 words when discussing the economy as they don't have a stable meaning.

Fascinating how people think any elected position can be "apolitical". There is no such thing as apolitical just as there is no such thing as not having an ideology. If you say you're non-ideological, that just means you don't want to admit the ideology that you believe in.

Something something George Orwell something something

Yet I don't understand how people can't see through Jacob Frey's "I will be the mayor to stop the crime", when he is literally the mayor now with all of the crime occuring. Boggles my mind how people see shooting and go, Frey will fix this, as if he hasn't been head of police for the last 7 years.

Police investigating double homicide in Minneapolis' Loring Park neighborhood At about 1:51 p.m., police received a call for a fight inside the first-floor lobby of an apartment building at 15 East Grand Street, which later turned into a shooting.

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Police chief outside of shoreline plaza on grant st.

Instead of a pedestrian mall on Nicollet, we could just have level boarding, prepayment, and signal priority and it'd be great.

This and what people will try to do with the Star Trib site.

"My constituents begged me to make myself legally ineligible to represent them" is not the rousing defense Becka thinks it is.

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Tolkkinen: Seven reasons Minnesota should grow less corn (I’m not talking about sweet corn) Corn brings in wealth, but the trade-offs aren’t worth it.

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I really like this article, there are so many reasons to decrease the amount of corn and soybeans that we grow. Even just a marginal change from corn to vegetables could be a huge boost to the total amount of vegetables we grow here in state.

Glad to have you as my representative!

I am proud to be born a Muslim.
I am proud to be born in Somalia.
I am proud to have become an American.

None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet.

Drink some water and touch grass.

Every time a city prioritizes non-car travel, pedestrianizes thoroughfares, expands transit, improves bike networks, implements congestion pricing or creates new public spaces, that city becomes better.

It’s not a war on cars. It’s an effort to make cities better & more livable.

And to think, it could have been for buses only...

I think they should've taken him off the air for losing to Ted Cruz lol

The issue with something like this is that if you have say 70,000 seats for the game, but 1 million New Yorkers want to see it, how do you pick which of those 1 million "should" see the game?

It wouldn't necessarily all have to be very low or free housing, it could be at cost housing as a way to get more housing built. Some of it should of course be subsidized, but the majority of housing built by the state probably should just be at the cost of construction as a way to get more built.

This. Not all affordable housing HAS to come from the private sector. We could, with our tax dollars, just build housing. The city of Minneapolis, or the Met Council, or the state, could just go and build apartments in underused/undeveloped land.

I also think, another big IF, but if those two streets did develop that way, we could end up with Nicollet being a dead pedestrian mall and everybody ending up on Marq 2 as the place to be.