Bill Lindeke

Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants

This is far worse than anyone expected.

Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.

All as mass internment camps are being built.

It Was Supposed to Connect Segregated Neighborhoods. Did It Gentrify Them Instead?

Interesting article to think about comparisons to the Midtown Greenway. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...

Different (better) map than the one I saw!

Remember all the hype about how Uber and Lyft would allow people to live car-free?

Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all.

Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter:
glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...

Great book!

An email update from the Lyndale neighborhood association about the planned Lyndale reconstruction. It reads, in part: “This summer we shared the latest plan based on the early rounds of engagement to get some additional input, with the hope of reaching a final layout for approval this fall. Based on the feedback we have since received, we are continuing to review how we can refine the design to balance the needs for all people along the corridor. Specifically, we have heard feedback regarding how we can: better separate people walking, rolling and biking; provide a transit advantage; and preserve parking and trees. This means we will be pushing out our timeline for developing a final layout and getting city approval. We look forward to sharing more details in the coming months.”

Lyndale reconstruction update from the Lyndale neighborhood association. Seems like good news that the county is back at the drawing board based on feedback they received. Sucks we have to be in constant “fight mode” for basic infrastructure improvements.

I think about this too. MSP and the State Fair are like the afterlife for dead local restaurants.

At Split Rock Lighthouse, passed by the Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years ago, a beacon of light to honor the dead About 2,000 attend memorial ceremony to mark the anniversary of the tragedy at sea.

Picking nits: I don't think the Edmund Fitzgerald "passed by" Split Rock Lighthouse. It hugged the south shore of the lake the entire time. www.startribune.com/wreck-edmund...

Opinion | Democrats Sure Taught Trump a Lesson

"This isn’t an ordinary moment. The president is openly lawless." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

Yikes.

egg-sactly right

YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd What's Better for Football? A Spicy Top 10

Really interesting video: Minneapolis is #2 on the top 10 list, after Seattle, for its urban connected football stadium. Stadium location is probably the best thing about the Vikings! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucIW...

Five Romanian relatives accused of rolling back odometers in Twin Cities used-car fraud scheme Authorities believe two of the suspects have already fled the country and none remain in Minnesota.

"They told police that they made money selling custom balloons in Florida to tourists." www.startribune.com/five-romania...

Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says 10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström

It's a lot cheaper not to put it up there than it is to take it out afterward. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oh my word! St. Paul has a shokupan bakery now? That is a game changer for my egg salad potential. www.startribune.com/x2-pastries-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Join the Streets.mn board! We’re a good org for trying out board work for the first time too. Join us on Saturday Nov. 15 for a chance to learn more and hang out at Midtown Global Market from 11 AM - 2 PM.

Take a look at this report that I authored with my colleagues. We will get an update in PHS tomorrow.

I’m also looking at an ordinance requiring a citywide bathroom strategy and increasing public toilet ratios depending on the population (similar to NYC).

lims.minneapolismn.gov/File/2025-00...

I have a horror story about this with my kid as well, stuck in Downtown Minneapolis in the post-COVID winter.

Where are the restrooms? Minneapolis needs more answers - MinnPost Businesses can't take on the entire burden. The city must invest in a network of free, accessible and well-maintained public restrooms.

"The city of Minneapolis’s 1,256 page 2040 Plan contains only three passing mentions of restrooms and no strategy for supplying this critical public service." www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

Time to rethink human services as Trump administration dumps costs on counties • Minnesota Reformer And now the federal government is dumping their budget problem on counties.

Interesting piece on county-led social service provision in Minnesota. (for the real budget wonks) minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/11/t...

"Parked cars & delivery vehicles frequently block the painted bike lanes, w/ simply disappear at high-volume intersections such as American Blvd., 90th St. & Old Shakopee Rd. This forces bicyclists into the road with traffic, or into the narrow, curbtight sidewalk with pedestrians."

He really did it folks

Legislative partisanship leads House DFLer Erin Koegel to quit Spring Lake Park DFLer Erin Koegel cited a legislative environment where partisanship makes people less open to ideas.

Hats off to Koegel. Seems like she fought hard for transit funding against some seemingly dishonest shenanigans. www.minnpost.com/state-govern...

Was getting annoyed about these last night too. Almost bot-level effort here.

IMO Bloomington lags WAY behind Richfield on safe street design. They can do far better.

yeah why would you build a new one

NOVEMBER 2025 | VOL. 42, NO. 11/ APA ZONING PRACTICE Unique Insights | Innovative Approaches | Practical Solutions Managing Pickleball Noise Through Zoning In this Issue: Why Pickleball Noise Is Different | The Role of Local Staff and Depart: ments | Tools for Mitigating Pickleball Noise | Designing the Zoning Amendment || Variances and Conditional Review | Conclusions

Zoning Practice magazine devotes an entire issue to *checks notes* pickleball noise

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

Meanwhile, in China... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

last five minutes of Packers football have not gone well