Kyle Stokes at Axios reports St. Paul is proposing a massive expansion of the city’s current network of bikeways, especially by adding “off-street” or “separated lanes” on high-traffic streets.
Update: The St. Paul City Council has approved the plan.
Louis Krauss at the Star Tribune is reporting a development proposal for Lino Lakes that includes a new mosque brought residents out by the hundreds for a city meeting this week, setting off a debate about the root cause of the opposition.
Jennifer Mayerle at WCCO News takes an in-depth look at how Minnesotans not allowed by law to own guns can file a petition to the courts to overturn a lifetime ban. Over 1,400 petitions were filed over the last five years in Minnesota and the courts approved more than half of them.
Emily Baude at KSTP reports that after 148 years, the Minneapolis Farmers Market is changing its hours of service to a Wednesday through Sunday schedule from its everyday schedule.
Cathy Wurzer and Gracie Stockton at MPR News report Twin Cities air quality is improving, but Pat McKone, director of advocacy for the American Lung Association in Minnesota, says climate change is making air pollution more common and harder to clean up.
David Klion at New York Magazine’s Intelligencer profiles Will Stancil, a Minneapolis urban policy wonk, who’s running for House District 61A.
Eric Rasmussen at KSTP reports that after nearly four years, state authorities have finally returned Sylvia Jackson’s 2001 Mercedes-Benz SUV that she had lent George Floyd on May 25, 2020.
Patrick Kennedy at the Star Tribune reports that while a cyberattack against a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary, Change Healthcare, has already cost the company more than $1 billion, before the attack, CEO Andrew Witty received $25 million in compensation for 2023.
Alex Malm and Graham Johnson at Southwest News Media craft an obituary for the six community newspapers ceasing publication on April 27. The oldest two, the Shakopee Valley News and the Chaska Herald were established in 1862.
Em Cassel at Racket looks into the hacking and deleting of MinnPost’s Instagram account. (Which is live again if you want to follow it.)
