Where does the Minneapolis park board go from here?
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board manages 160 parks, 558 employees and a $111 million budget. It might be helpful if they could stand each other.
Adam Wahlberg
Adam Wahlberg is a Minneapolis-based freelance journalist. He’s held senior editing positions at Minnesota Law & Politics, Super Lawyers, and Twin Cities Business.
The lazy person’s guide to ranked-choice voting in Minneapolis and St. Paul
It isn’t nuclear physics, people. Here are the basics to consider before you cast your ballot in Minneapolis or St. Paul.
The battle for the soul of the Minneapolis Park Board
Park Board elections are usually about as exciting as a Quickbooks webinar. Not this time around. This year, think “House of Cards” for tree-huggers.
The Recovery Bike Shop: a story you could never make up
“We help poor people get to work, that’s always what it’s been about,” Brent Fuqua says. “Some people just can’t afford a car, or may not have a driver’s license anymore.”
An HIV diagnosis and addiction at the same time. Not easy. Daniel Sannel walks people through it.
As a chemical health counselor with the Positive Care Center at HCMC, Sannel’s job is to work exclusively with HIV-positive patients who have these challenges.
Will St. Paul let People Inc. move a crisis center to an east side convent?
The move would help the organization serve more people. But there are questions — zoning questions, parking questions, safety questions. Nimby questions.
Forget the gum. Mindfulness can stop you from smoking
“Mindfulness is all about changing the loops in your brain that say you want something, and it’s proving really effective with tobacco addictions,” says Dr. Courtney Baechler.
Art therapy’s impact: ‘I painted myself out of hell’
It’s not something you forget. The moment your life changes. For Gabriel Orion Marie, it was the day she dipped a brush into paint.
The next Marya Hornbacher book is coming and could be a game-changer
Her book will focus on the lives of people who are thriving with mental illness and the strategies they use to get there.
HazelFest: A sober rock festival. It’s fun. Really.
Caroline Smith is headlining this year. And former child star Mackenzie Phillips will share her story with the crowd.
Sober Corps and the legacy of Fred Myers and Malik Sealy
Sobers Corps has no staff and little budget, but it’s still going strong in the memory of founder Fred Myers and inspiration Malik Sealy.
Hennepin Health doesn’t want you in the ER, but does want you to have a phone
The In Reach program provides up to four months of targeted case management for high utilizers of crisis care.
Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers: 39 years of professional empathy
When LCL began it was primarily focused on alcoholism. Today it acts as a portal for information for lawyers in any kind of mental health or substance-abuse distress.
‘Why couldn’t you do a graphic novel about sobriety?’ You could, and he did
In fact you’d think a graphic novel about recovery would have been done by now, it’s such a natural. But it hadn’t. Not until Daniel Maurer’s “Sobriety: A Graphic Novel.”
Tackling anxiety on campus with creativity: Can a therapy chicken help?
“I always ask students I see about what’s causing them anxiety and I often hear that it is about the financial aspect of college,” says U of M chemical health counselor ThanhVan Vu.
Narcan is helping reduce overdose deaths in Hennepin County. Why isn’t it used more widely?
“It’s not expensive, and it works. You can produce an overdose kit, which has two injectable doses of Narcan, for about $35,” says Adam Fairbanks of Valhalla Place.
TXT4Life brings crisis counseling into the digital age
TXT4Life may not be a silver bullet in the battle to prevent suicide, but it certainly has advocates excited.
Why William Mitchell and Hamline Law had to merge
The merger of Hamline’s law school and William Mitchell College of Law makes sense for a lot of reasons. But it’s also clear that they didn’t have much of a choice.
Mike Ciresi breaks up with himself
The legendary trial lawyer is leaving the firm he spent 44 years building. Why?
The man who invented ice dams
Before Joe Palumbo came along, they were just those annoying ice structures. Now they have a name and are part of a $2 million business.
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