Evan Roberts

lol, "cheap housing for a few, subject to my aesthetic and architectural preferences" is a pretty good summary of left-wing NIMBYism

RIP to a real one, roman market economy was legendary

This is basically what countries of a similar size to our fair state have been doing since the mid-2010s (signed, dual citizen who lives in MN)

Indeed, time to decision is a metric they are targeting.

Cricket may also have inspired this one
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Outfielders without gloves

I'm confused. Isn't zoning meant to just describe the building that's currently on the lot 😜

Public health, broadly speaking, articles are short. But economic history and demography articles are as long as ones I get from history (proper). If anything I find the economic history and demography ones more work to review, because there's a non-zero chance of data analysis for the review.

However, the places that are in demand, the places where people pay the most per square foot for century-old homes, are also the places where more of the current residents would prefer their neighborhoods stay the same. Upzoning Summit and Kenwood are the same solution with the same challenges.

This appears different from Saint Paul's issue, but it's functionally the same — residential property has to bear more of the tax burden. What Minneapolis and Saint Paul can offer, nearly uniquely, is the ability to live an urban lifestyle. Property prices suggest that is something in demand.

Minneapolis long benefited from a downtown that had an employment population disproportionate to its size within the metro. Covid, the police governance challenges of 2020, and our metro's good but not great transit system has diminished that advantage. Hence Saint Paul like challenges with downtown

St. Paul’s defining feature has always been its crummy tax base & boom/bust cycle of public development subsidies; that often leads to yearning for an authoritarian. Minneapolis is headed the tax base way, with a corresponding rise in Republicanism here among the Frey class.

This site is the equivalent of an argument in a pub or coffee shop (complimentary). The idea that you can't participate because you don't live in the city is so nonsensical. For sure, you may open yourself up to greater ridicule with a lack of knowledge. But that applies within your home city too

Minneapolis and Saint Paul both have zoning challenges if they want to grow their residential populations at higher rates. Minneapolis has zoned for apartments, and is getting them in certain places. Saint Paul has better zoning in place for townhouses and neighborhood infill.

David's a youngster in this town 😉, but I can remember a time around 2002-2006 when it was St Paul that had the more conservative mayor, and Minneapolis was the progressive seemingly well governed city.

St. Paul elections remind me of traveling to Europe in the ‘80s & being told America was so racist; I agreed but said “you just haven’t had as much opportunity, so we’ll see.” We Minneapolitans act like loons over our elections & get rightly mocked, but one St. Paul special & it’s popping off.

Andrew Goodman-Bacon is a terrific lecturer. That is the post.

In general, yes, stuff in the clear zone is sometimes meant to crumple. But this one's off the road, so I think more likely just badly done with bolts only, rather than being embedded in the concrete.

Excellent thread on renaming Edmund Boulevard after Lena Smith. Congratulations to everyone involved who made this happen, esp friends at the University of Minnesota Mapping Prejudice Project.

August 4, 2025 Planning Commission YouTube video by cityofminneapolis

I think this 14-year-old who lives on Edmund Blvd changed the minds of some neighbors who showed up opposed to the change:
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The Little Minnesota, a roughly Minnesota shaped route through Minneapolis

Pleased to announce the first test of the Little Minnesota bike/run route.

In 23 miles, it creates the outline of Minnesota, and is longer than either the Little Wisconsin or Little Illinois in Milwaukee and Chicago respectively.

That's awesome. I am enjoying my slow and goofy quest to run every street in Golden Valley.

I gather from both reviewer side, and soliciting a review, that some humanities journals give 2 months. But this is based on limited info.

Time to first decision!

the packet has that. there were a couple of public comments that were asking why the mailer didn't have information on who she was.

I just sent one of those emails today 😀

In both cases I did reply to the editor and say (politely) that I didn't think this was a great use of our time. Experiencing it twice made me start to wonder, is this common? But also, that which is regular is not stupid (Gary Becker), is there some good reason editors would do this?

After the due date, sure, tell the delinquent their review is no longer needed. But before! Makes me less likely to accept the marginal review request from that journal the next time. These were pretty standard 4 week social science review timelines, not the longer ones sometimes seen in humanities

And then, a few days *before* the due date, I got an email saying "nah, sorry, we have enough reviews, don't worry about submitting yours". On the one hand, fallacy of sunk costs. I'm still ahead on time (and I learned something). On the other, I feel like more hours of my time were wasted.

Had an experience with two different journals with reviewing this year I found odd. I accepted the assignment, agreed to a due date. Read the paper. Put it aside. Read it again. Marked it up even more. Made some notes. All that was left was 30-60 minutes of typing up the comments. Hard work was done