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Building a Better 2025: Insights and Inspiration

May the Best Candidate Win

Americano and a Muffin

Interview: Council Member Linea Palmisano

Correction: Three-card Monte

Three-card Monte

Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) is Overrated

The Uptown Action Plan

Survey Highlights: Minimal Support for City-Run Childcare

Don’t Touch That

Melting the Snowball

Budget MPLS: More Bike Lanes, Buses, & Bollards, Less Housing and Services

The Fraud Surcharge

Review: Minneapolis Labor Standards Board

The ABCs of Sowing Distrust

Election Prediction: Polarization Wins in a Landslide

Interview: Lara Bergman, District 6 MPS School Board Candidate

MPD Blues: Again

Auditors Wanted, Experience Not Required

How the City Council’s Moves Strengthen GOP Talking Points

Frey the Rich

Firewall

The Minneapolis Times

Counting the Pennies

The Bee-Watcher Watcher

The Road to Hamsterdam

The Politics of Appeasement

How to Alienate Potential Supporters

The Facade of Safety

Interview with Community Safety Commissioner Todd Barnette

Hopium: When Leaders Rely on Hope Instead of Solutions

This Budget Has Everything but Accountability

Rent Control Rollback

Cleaning House

Ward 8 Council Member Andrea Jenkins

The Gavin Newsom Gambit

Building a Better Uptown

NIMBYism: Uptown 2040 cont.

Dumpster fire: Uptown 2040 cont.

Uptown 2040

From Flames to Future: Combating Crime and Promoting Community Safety

Nodding off on the Orange Line

Tackling Vacant Buildings

No One gets into Real Estate to Lose Money

Reader preference is near unanimous

Slow-Walking and the MPD Union Contract

Interview with Minneapolis Regulatory Services Director Enrique Velazquez

Reparation Commissions

Writing about Fatherhood is Complicated

The $13 million remodel

Mary Moriarty has damaged more than her own reputation

Mayor Jacob Frey Interview

Violence Interrupters

Breaking the Silence: Reclaim Your Voice

Election Evolution: Rethinking Caucuses

Motherhood is not a Tide commercial

Brimming with Possibility

Rebound Momentum

Community Oversight of the MPD Proposed

The Outrage Machine

Skip the Flight

Online Activism: Navigating the Risks of Angry Discourse

ShotSpotter and Speed Cameras

Leveraging unity

Reader survey results

Rarely is Progress Linear

State of the City

Imagine Yourself: MPD is a tough sell

Narrow the Focus

The Potential fallout of Uber and Lyft leaving

A reassessment of Community Safety is in order

City Assessment fees are misguided and a burden on residents

UBER and LYFT driver compensation is a regional issue

It’s time for a Plan to End Homelessness

Council Member Andrea Jenkins: Potential for Leadership

The Ripple Effects of Expensive Elder Care

Guns, guns, and more guns

Disarray in the Minneapolis Civil Rights Department

Greater Urgency Needed to Deter Crime

The Cost of Addiction is Greater than its Price

A Retreat for Sanity

A Community First! Village of our Own

MLK advocated for a Guaranteed Basic Income.

MPLS City Council argues for a Strong Mayor

The library, an expensive homeless shelter

Camp Nenookaasi, symptom of the poverty flu

Innovation in government is indeed possible.