I’m still thinking the Mississippi River is the appropriate demarcation line between Minneapolis and St. Paul. They can have NE and the U of M, and we get the West Side. A win-win all around.

WTF is Tivity, “a third-party manager of gym memberships?”
Just stop already, tech bros!

So back in the day 100% of snowplow drivers lived and worked through the 91 Halloween Blizzard, nowadays we are pushing 0% Halloween Blizzard vets and the streets reflect that demographic shift. As far as biking goes, a lot more studded tire options available but it is always a struggle.

Going to spend a good part of today putting studded tires on bikes.
I picked up some studded 700x 35 tires at a garage sale over the summer so going to add a drop bar road bike as a third bike with full studs, in addition to the fender clad cruiser and the studded fat mullet. It is getting bad!

I thought Eli’s on Hennepin closed for good, so cool to know they have a location over there in larger St. Paul.

For every $20 the city spends on housing, they spend $500 on police.
So.

I’m good at packing snowballs, so Waymo will get their chance to test / demonstrate to hostile locals.

Old Man Winter will make short work of rendering driver bots useless.

It was just a few weeks ago that I went back and forth with a Frey door knocker who INSISTED it was not an immigration raid, and ICE was not there on Lake Street. The amount of lying and sand-kicking around that incident is truly extraordinary.

I think that in a presidential election year the turnout numbers would not only be much higher than current municipal elections, but the voting demographics would more closely match the actual Minneapolis population. Current system has wealthier part of the city turning out way out of proportion.

I’m not defending capitalism, by any means. But it does seem like they at least provided some public good back in the day?

Not to be a stickler, but Thomas Lowry was definitely a capitalist. The backroom real estate deals that went down prior to building a street car line must have been insane.

I’m still confused why none of the losing democrats who ran for president didn’t campaign on a legalization for weed platform. They could have equivocated after winning or walked it back, all they had to do was say they would.

None are very good. Something to do with Minneapolis being one of the first places to roll out 5G to coincide with hosting the Super Bowl is my theory. T-Mobile was better for me than AT&T, but that was also a 3G brick phone so not quite fair comparison.

Yeah, my guess is that the Epstein business is blowing up right now and the ghouls are scrambling in the GOP camp, to the point of turning down chances at free media.
I just love when Wurzer has an opportunity to flex that “aggressively passive aggressive” style that is uniquely Minnesotan.

What people forget, is that what the art installation and benches replaced what was a liquor store at the corner.

There is a book called “Bohemian Flats” that was published by the WPA that is excellently written. “Subterranean Twin Cities” is my other personal favorite.