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Karen Boros

Karen Boros

Karen Boros reports on Minneapolis City Hall. She started her journalism career covering Minneapolis politics for the Sun Newspapers and later became the City Hall reporter for WCCO-TV. She went on to work as a television reporter in the Chicago bureau of CBS News. She has also reported for Minnesota Public Radio and Twin Cities Public Television, and taught journalism at the University of St. Thomas.

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Warehouse District property owners feel shortchanged
Two Cities

Warehouse District property owners feel shortchanged by Minneapolis' Downtown Improvement District

By Karen Boros | 05/16/13

They want “an acknowledgement that [they’re] over-assessed, under-serviced and definitely under-represented.”

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Two Cities

Minneapolis officials back Police Chief Harteau’s limited comments on Friday events

By Karen Boros | 05/16/13

“She’s doing what a police chief has to do in a tough situation which is, first, get the facts right,” said Mayor R.T. Rybak.

Two Cities

Minneapolis prepares for June car-share program

By Karen Boros | 05/14/13

As many as 250 vehicles could be available to residents who need a car on occasion but have no desire to own a vehicle.

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Two Cities

Minneapolis Police Chief Harteau comments on Friday's 'traumatic events'

By Karen Boros | 05/14/13

“Those events … serve as a reminder of how many split-second decisions police officers make every day …,” she said at the department’s awards program.

Minneapolis political upheaval signals possible major change at City Hall
Two Cities

Minneapolis political upheaval signals possible major change at City Hall

By Karen Boros | 05/13/13

Political observers see what one calls “enormous change, transformation and regeneration” in city politics. 

Potholes: Cam Winton makes his case for road repairs
Two Cities

Potholes: Minneapolis mayoral candidate Cam Winton makes his case for road repairs

By Karen Boros | 05/07/13

The pothole he selected as a bad example was scheduled for repair the same day he decided to hold a middle-of-the-street news conference.

Minneapolis’ DFL precinct caucuses
Two Cities

Minneapolis’ DFL precinct caucuses: ‘Wedge’ issues — and complications in the 10th Ward

By Karen Boros | 04/17/13

Delegate selection no easy task as thousands of DFLers turned out for city caucuses, the first step in the endorsement process for city office endorsements.

Two Cities

Minneapolis ramping up efforts for a re-imagined Nicollet Mall

By Karen Boros | 04/16/13

When it was designed nearly 50 years ago, the mall was cutting edge and served as a national model for transit malls. Today, it needs major repairs.

recycling
Two Cities

Minneapolis’ new One Sort recycling program beginning Phase 2

By Karen Boros | 04/16/13

During the program’s first six weeks of collections last fall, recycled material increased by 63 percent, or nearly 400 tons.

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Politics & Policy

Minneapolis mayoral candidate Jim Thomas Q-A: 'Education issues should be part of campaign dialogue'

By Karen Boros | 04/12/13

"We need to have an openness in what is happening in our schools in terms of the priorities, the choices and the costs of decisions we’re making."