With broad-strokes approach, St. Paul sidesteps 2040 plan controversy
The lack of criticism of St. Paul’s plan is a dramatic departure from the long, heated debate among Minneapolis residents over its 2040 comprehensive plan.
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‘Public trust will continue to be paramount in terms of how I lead’: a Q&A with Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo
In a year and a half as Minneapolis’ police chief, Arradondo has been forced to handle an array of issues that some police chiefs don’t encounter over the course of their entire careers.
No, really, there’s a new sheriff in town. This is what he did on his first day.
As new Hennepin County Sheriff Dave Hutchinson took a tour of county facilities — from a gun range in Maple Grove to the county jail — he continued to preach a message of reform.
How co-responder teams are changing the way Minneapolis police deal with mental health calls
Though the program is currently operating as a pilot, it is on track to grow in 2019, thanks to money set aside in the city’s 2019 budget.
The 5 local government stories you’ll still be talking about in 2019
From development to dockless bikes.
‘The biggest surprise is the number of big surprises’: a Q&A with St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter on his first year in office
The mayor talks affordable housing, public safety, and learning to code.
‘Fulfilling in every way’: A Q&A with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on his first year in office
On a recent afternoon, Frey looked back at the highlights and challenges of his first year in the new gig, what he is prioritizing in 2019 — and what his life is now like outside City Hall.
U study finds Minneapolis food law has done little to change consumer habits (so far)
Despite the increased availability of healthy foods, shopper surveys and home-food analyses showed there wasn’t an increase in people purchasing healthy foods in Minneapolis as a result of the ordinance.
Navigation center begins welcoming people from Hiawatha Ave. tent encampment
The new site, on Cedar Avenue near the Franklin Avenue light-rail station, aims to temporarily house up to 120 people from the Hiawatha Avenue encampment.
Momentum building to fill in Grand Rounds’ missing link
It’s an idea more than a century in the making: Minneapolis could one day have a massive trail system for bicyclists and pedestrians that encircles the whole city.
To better address homelessness, Hennepin County looks to better understand racial disparities
Hennepin County is making the first steps to address some of the racial disparities in homelessness head-on, through a national program that will allow the county to benefit from other cities’ approaches to the issue.
‘They will discover their own humanity’: Nekima Levy Armstrong on racial justice and white allies
Her workshop training aims “to try to help shift the consciousness of white people who want to be allies, or who believe that they are allies, so they can go deeper in their anti-racism work in their employment, and outside of their employment.”
The debate around policing is similar in Minneapolis and St. Paul. How the cities are responding is not.
The mayors of both Minneapolis and St. Paul are looking at budgets that essentially reverse their original proposals for law enforcement spending.
Unlike many cities, Chicago is losing people. Many of them are moving to Minnesota
Of the 100 biggest metro areas in the U.S., Chicago is one of just 10 that lost population.
As Minneapolis council moves toward finalizing 2019 budget, members focus on housing, public safety issues
The public will have one last chance to chime in on the budget, at a hearing Wednesday evening, before the council votes on last-minute changes and makes it final.
Suburban shelter Hope House gives homeless teens a chance to reset their lives
The emergency shelter for teens, located in Chanhassen, holds up to six kids per night. The residents, teens between the ages of 14 and 19, can stay for up to 90 days.
All the ways the City Council changed the Minneapolis 2040 plan
Here are main takeaways from the council’s latest work on the plan, and how the massive document will guide future policies on development, infrastructure, transportation and more.
Latest fight over controversial landlord’s Minneapolis properties puts spotlight on housing court
Del Campo Chacon’s eviction fight — part of a larger struggle among a group of families living in five Frenz properties on the same block — is a new chapter in a long story, one that includes allegations of fraud, unsanitary conditions, rent strikes and city intervention.
Why this week was so important for the future of Southwest LRT — and where things go from here
Here’s what the latest developments mean for the $2 billion project — and what has to happen in the next weeks, months and years for the line between Minneapolis and Eden Prairie to actually start serving passengers.
Lessons from the past for the GOP to become a majority party
The way forward is to do something different in Minnesota so the Republican Party is competitive in all parts of the state.