Alex Schieferdecker
@alexschief.bsky.social
Mpls Ped/Bike Coordinator. Cold weather apologist. Sports appreciator. Cookie enthusiast. State capacity booster. Opinions do not represent those of the City.
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"Hennepin County’s by-name list allowed for a more comprehensive data set that could be updated regularly. Instead of relying on anonymous statistics, the by-name list allows the county to track specific individuals and their unique needs." sahanjournal.com/housing/henn...
Hennepin County vowed to end chronic homelessness. What happened?
While Hennepin County’s end-of-2025 goal to end homelessness wasn’t met amid challenges old and new, the county presses on.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"Hennepin County’s by-name list allowed for a more comprehensive data set that could be updated regularly. Instead of relying on anonymous statistics, the by-name list allows the county to track specific individuals and their unique needs." sahanjournal.com/housing/henn...
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They also compared the mid-rise single-stair building to a code-compliant low-rise single-stair building. They found slightly more risk, easily mitigated with smoke detectors in the corridor OR improved inspections. This is the finding they highlighted, and the direction they are pushing in.
December 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
They also compared the mid-rise single-stair building to a code-compliant low-rise single-stair building. They found slightly more risk, easily mitigated with smoke detectors in the corridor OR improved inspections. This is the finding they highlighted, and the direction they are pushing in.
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Consultants contracted by Minnesota found that an eight-story single-stair building with 6,000 sq. ft. per floor (building 4) has dramatically lower fire risk than a same-height code-compliant two-stair building with a larger floor plate (building 1) www.dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Consultants contracted by Minnesota found that an eight-story single-stair building with 6,000 sq. ft. per floor (building 4) has dramatically lower fire risk than a same-height code-compliant two-stair building with a larger floor plate (building 1) www.dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...
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utterly incapable of grace
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
utterly incapable of grace
This is also true for cities.
If popular Republican descriptions of the place *where I live* are essentially hallucinatory, what conclusions should I draw from that about Republican epistemology writ large?
If popular Republican descriptions of the place *where I live* are essentially hallucinatory, what conclusions should I draw from that about Republican epistemology writ large?
I think one of the things that shook me out of being a conservative the most was the contrast between the way my family members talked about normal colleges and what it was actually like attending one.
Universities should be subsidizing these kinds of visitors even more - contact theory but for elected officials whose understanding of elite higher ed is mostly drawn from the Fox News Cinematic Universe wapo.st/4aQQABT
December 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This is also true for cities.
If popular Republican descriptions of the place *where I live* are essentially hallucinatory, what conclusions should I draw from that about Republican epistemology writ large?
If popular Republican descriptions of the place *where I live* are essentially hallucinatory, what conclusions should I draw from that about Republican epistemology writ large?
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It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.
December 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.
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From fine dining to fast casual and barbecue to pasta galore, these are our favorite new eateries.
The Minnesota Star Tribune names its 10 best new restaurants of 2025
From fine dining to fast casual and barbecue to pasta galore, these are our favorite new eateries. But one stands out above them all.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
From fine dining to fast casual and barbecue to pasta galore, these are our favorite new eateries.
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The restaurant is a tribute to chef/owner Eric Pham's mother, Khue. “She’s my North Star, my culinary inspiration,” says Pham, “She is everything I strive to be as a cook and as a chef.”
Khue’s Kitchen is the Star Tribune’s 2025 Best New Restaurant
Eric Pham cooks through fire and family at his St. Paul restaurant, serving up the Twin Cities’ next generation of Vietnamese cuisine.
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December 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The restaurant is a tribute to chef/owner Eric Pham's mother, Khue. “She’s my North Star, my culinary inspiration,” says Pham, “She is everything I strive to be as a cook and as a chef.”
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These are such extraordinarily blatant bait it's actually remarkable. Here's one from Charlottesville Nextdoor, with the post that "inspired" it:
December 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
These are such extraordinarily blatant bait it's actually remarkable. Here's one from Charlottesville Nextdoor, with the post that "inspired" it:
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*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...
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"I think good writing—clear thinking—matters. Not much, but a little! This is a minority position, I am learning." Chris Hooks on Olivia Nuzzi, Joan Didion, and the self-delusions of our current moment newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"I think good writing—clear thinking—matters. Not much, but a little! This is a minority position, I am learning." Chris Hooks on Olivia Nuzzi, Joan Didion, and the self-delusions of our current moment newrepublic.com/article/2041...
This is a whole lot of words to write without coming to the point and explaining what exactly you think should happen and why.
And that's before reaching the question of whether the Silicon Valley model deserves the benefit of the doubt it receives here and is worth emulating in some fashion.
And that's before reaching the question of whether the Silicon Valley model deserves the benefit of the doubt it receives here and is worth emulating in some fashion.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
To compete with superpowers like China, the U.S. military must follow the lead of America’s private sector, writes the editorial board.
To compete with superpowers like China, the U.S. military must follow the lead of America’s private sector, writes the editorial board.
Opinion | America’s Military Needs a Culture Shift
The benefits of serving have never been more appealing, but the Pentagon needs a better approach to recruiting new talent.
nyti.ms
December 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This is a whole lot of words to write without coming to the point and explaining what exactly you think should happen and why.
And that's before reaching the question of whether the Silicon Valley model deserves the benefit of the doubt it receives here and is worth emulating in some fashion.
And that's before reaching the question of whether the Silicon Valley model deserves the benefit of the doubt it receives here and is worth emulating in some fashion.
I like living in a city where I can take the bus to go skiing after work.
December 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I like living in a city where I can take the bus to go skiing after work.
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Really pretty snow tonight in Minneapolis. Here's the new West Lake Street train station, with the orange still continuing to grow on me. I'm not there yet.. but getting closer. 🟠🚉
Minneapolis December 2025
Minneapolis December 2025
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Really pretty snow tonight in Minneapolis. Here's the new West Lake Street train station, with the orange still continuing to grow on me. I'm not there yet.. but getting closer. 🟠🚉
Minneapolis December 2025
Minneapolis December 2025
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Late night ride back from City Hall after unanimously approving the 2026 budget. Grateful to have an escort up johnson as it was getting plowed!
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Late night ride back from City Hall after unanimously approving the 2026 budget. Grateful to have an escort up johnson as it was getting plowed!
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Businesses and homelessness advocacy groups say people are relieving themselves in public out of desperation. The council is exploring high-tech restrooms.
Minneapolis City Council looks to solve No. 1 problem downtown: Where to go No. 2
Businesses and homelessness advocacy groups say people are relieving themselves in public out of desperation. The council is exploring high-tech restrooms.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Businesses and homelessness advocacy groups say people are relieving themselves in public out of desperation. The council is exploring high-tech restrooms.
The shameless impunity with which these thugs are acting is what repeatedly stands out.
If they are never held to account, it will take a long long time to unturn this page.
If they are never held to account, it will take a long long time to unturn this page.
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, said agents told her in the truck that if she didn’t watch herself “they were going to pull me over to the side of the road and give me this OC,” law enforcement shorthand for pepper spray.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The shameless impunity with which these thugs are acting is what repeatedly stands out.
If they are never held to account, it will take a long long time to unturn this page.
If they are never held to account, it will take a long long time to unturn this page.
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We have built endless machines to stimulate us at all times and evoke a neverending torrent of strong feelings, and nothing is so stimulating, so evocative, as cheap nostalgia paired with the assurance that you’re right to feel everything good has been taken from you, you’ve been wronged by history
this is why i prefer the term "the malaise." there is *demonstrably* a malaise. nobody likes The Current Thing™️. but *what* they're mad about? or more precisely, what *caused* them to be mad? that is a much harder question, and one it does not do to presuppose
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
We have built endless machines to stimulate us at all times and evoke a neverending torrent of strong feelings, and nothing is so stimulating, so evocative, as cheap nostalgia paired with the assurance that you’re right to feel everything good has been taken from you, you’ve been wronged by history
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Augsburg University’s president condemned the detention of a student by federal immigration agents on campus Saturday afternoon, calling the encounter a violation of the university’s private property and its values.
Augsburg president decries ‘illegal’ ICE detention of a student on private campus
University officials say agents refused to provide a judicial warrant before taking the student from a private parking lot on campus.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Augsburg University’s president condemned the detention of a student by federal immigration agents on campus Saturday afternoon, calling the encounter a violation of the university’s private property and its values.
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"Criticism of policies or governance is fair game. Stripping people of dignity is not," Edina Mayor James B. Hovland writes.
Edina mayor: Dehumanizing Somali Americans is a ‘moral failure’
"Criticism of policies or governance is fair game. Stripping people of dignity is not," Edina Mayor James B. Hovland writes.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Criticism of policies or governance is fair game. Stripping people of dignity is not," Edina Mayor James B. Hovland writes.
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Terminally online Right wingers are telling on themselves
December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Terminally online Right wingers are telling on themselves
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December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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I'm really coming over to the idea that elite weirdo groupchats have melted the brains of WAAAAY too many elite Dems.
Xitter plays a significant role here, but I'm pretty sure the main vector here is that all the well-connected rich ppl they hang out with have gone (comparatively) mildly batshit.
Xitter plays a significant role here, but I'm pretty sure the main vector here is that all the well-connected rich ppl they hang out with have gone (comparatively) mildly batshit.
Thanks for validating me, governor
December 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I'm really coming over to the idea that elite weirdo groupchats have melted the brains of WAAAAY too many elite Dems.
Xitter plays a significant role here, but I'm pretty sure the main vector here is that all the well-connected rich ppl they hang out with have gone (comparatively) mildly batshit.
Xitter plays a significant role here, but I'm pretty sure the main vector here is that all the well-connected rich ppl they hang out with have gone (comparatively) mildly batshit.