On June 3, 2020, the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board passed a resolution prohibiting the use of MPD forces for supplemental event security on city parkland. In a recent memo to the board, Minneapolis Parks Superintendent Al Bangoura said Park Police need more support and wants to see the resolution overturned, according to Bring Me the News.
Jake Blumgart at Governing reports St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and members of his executive team have moved into empty offices in the skyways as an example for other downtown office workers.
On Monday, the Metropolitan Council and Hennepin County released a route recommendation for the Blue Line Extension project and, according to KSTP, is asking for community input on the proposal.
Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom at MPR News interview former St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, now leading Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, about the housing crisis and expanding home ownership among Black Minnesotans.
The U of M Department of Public Safety has encouraged students and staff members to be on alert following a carjacking around 9 p.m. Sunday night near the intersection of Washington and University Avenues S.E., reported by Dana Thiede at KARE-11.
In other crime news, from WCCO, a Twin Cities man faces assault and trespassing charges after threatening an employee of the Hyatt Place hotel in Bloomington with a “wizard wand.”
FOX9 reports a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves’ traveling party in Memphis was robbed after the team defeated the Grizzlies in Game 1 of their playoff series on Saturday evening.
Heidi Wigdahl at KARE-11 has the story of Washburn High School junior Brynn Winter and her stepmom traveling to Poland in March to volunteer with World Central Kitchen to help feed Ukrainian refugees.
Minnesotan Aaron Pike placed second in the wheelchair division of the 126th Boston Marathon on Monday. Dakotah Lindwurm of Burnsville was the fourth American woman across the line, and Chaska native Bria Wetsch was 15th, according to the Star Tribune.
Also from the Star Tribune, Susan Du reports researchers from Rockefeller University want to know more about the benefits that keep Minneapolis polar swimmers jumping in again and again.
Please tell me we aren’t paying for those skyway offices when Carter and company already have offices.
“housing crisis and expanding home ownership among Black Minnesotans”
Me thinks the chain of events here is as follows: The cities structurally don’t enforce codes and standards, this makes it easy for land (slum) lords to make money in the inner city. The ultra lefties think it is better to house folks in slumlord properties than enforce the codes and standards, the thought, well where are those folks going to go if we expect landlords to keep properties livable? Because of lack enforcement, single family homes etc. are valuable to investors, high cash flow low expense, low-no over site, good investment, which boosts sales prices farther out of reach for the not so wealthy. Slumlord (absentee landlord) properties tend not to be so well kept, which in turn causes the local homeowners to give up and bug out, again selling to investors which in turn repeat the cycle. The spiral down continues for lack of city government commitment to serve the entire community and not focus 100% on social justice which actually results in social injustice to all.
I bet he had to hire a few more people to facilitate the move. Mayor Carter’s office employs more people than anyone else in the city. They may have to build a new tower to house his staff.
With reference to the park board working with the MPD, I’ll be as frank as I can, I consider it sheer stupidity when 1 tax payer funded organization can not collaborate with another tax payer funded organization in all ways legally possible! Talk about bureaucratic ignorance and ineptitude.
Very interesting combo of stories both positive and negative. The park board is mending fences but the Met Council wants another light rail line when the current 3 are probably failures…… Our family was threatened last year by a mentally ill man with a knife. I have a commuting friend who will only use the line from the Midway to DT Mpls as he considers the other parts unsafe. I think BRT is far superior and do use it on occasion. Its flexible, part of the neighborhood, safe and low cost. Employ the construction industry to build housing and well ventilated buildings.
Why would you be unable to post this comment? The high knife guy was witnessed by 3 adults ( EMS, lawyer and teacher) and we luckily called the police and he was escorted off after 2 miles.