April 2011
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Friday afternoon coffee and music break.  radiok: Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles cover “Lovefool” by The Cardigans on Radio K
Apr 29th
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Way too much going on this weekend
Some great local events if you’re still looking for weekend plans. At least one of your MinnPost tumblr-ers will be at the May Day Parade. east-lake: May Day Parade: May Day Parade isn’t my favorite Powderhorn area festival (Empty Bowls and Art Sled Rally are), but it’s still a lot of fun MSP Home Tour: One of my favorite events of the year. I just love seeing what people do to their...
Apr 29th
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One proposed site for a new Vikings stadium. This area is also the location of the Minneapolis Farmers Market.
Apr 28th
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Next year's MinnRoast date announced, and also we... →
Mark your calendars: Friday, April 27 is the date for MinnRoast 2012. We’re hoping the snow birds and spring vacationers will be back by then. In other MinnRoast news, we are closing the books on MinnRoast 2011 on Saturday night, April 30. We still need $4,526 in post-event donations to beat last year’s Challenge Fund results. If you came to MinnRoast 2011 as a guest, please consider...
Apr 28th
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North Minneapolis congregation turns over church... →
freshmn: Really interesting story about the experiences of the pastor meeting victims of sex trade and her work with a U-M researcher to create a safe space in North Minneapolis. Please read.
Apr 28th
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Twin Cities Public Television will air films on... →
Didn’t get to that see the movies or join in the community discussion about waning inner-ring suburbs here at home as well as across the nation, or learn how they’re handling their problems? Well, here’s the reel replay: both “The New Metropolis” and its sibling, “New Metropolis Minnesota,” will be aired on Twin Cities Public Television, tpt, starting at 8 p.m. Sunday May 1.  For a sense of the...
Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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News break →
Thank you for sending your support. We’re all wishing David a restful recovery and speedy healing. thomaslowrysghost: David Brauer (of MinnPost): This blog — and yours truly — are going on hiatus. The short version is that I was in the hospital last week with what turns out to be liver damage. After a couple of harrowing days dancing with the unknown, doctors said it was a bad...
Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Norm Coleman affiliates with powerful D.C. law... →
In today’s episode of “Where are they now?” … It looks as if former Sen. Norm Coleman has joined the influential Washington, D.C., law firm of Hogan Lovells.
Apr 21st
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“The value of making public this kind of information facilitates discussion and...”
– Jeff Klein, another commenter on Crowdsourced map: Vacant properties in Minneapolis
Apr 20th
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“Perfect. Let’s map the properties so the people who go in and gut...”
– Kassie Church, with an interesting point in the comments section on our story about vacant properties in Minneapolis. Of course, any industrious copper thieves plugging “vacant properties in Minneapolis” into Google will find the city source file for this map first. It’s public...
Apr 20th
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What can you add to our crowdsourced map of vacant properties in Minneapolis? Let us know here. Or just have a look around.
Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
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“Among the largest 20 metropolitan areas, we [the Twin Cities] rank third in road...”
– MinnPost’s Steve Berg Sad, sad revelation. (via thomaslowrysghost)
Apr 18th
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Minnesota welcomed more than 130,000 immigrants from around the world between 2000 and 2009 (the latest year for which data is available). Where are they from? Have a look at the interactive world map we’ve posted. Just roll your mouse over any country to see how many people made the journey from there to here.
Apr 18th
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Apr 15th
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Blue Cross Minnesota suspends KDWB ads over Hmong... →
Blue Cross did not advertise on Ryan’s show — “morning shows are not the best fit,” Lux notes — but had a campaign running on KDWB. It has been suspended indefinitely until Clear Channel, which owns KDWB, outlines steps in writing to improve diversity training and inclusion, as well as improve on its initial disingenuous apology.
Apr 15th
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“It was banter between friends. Tina certainly knew I was kidding.”
– Senator Al Franken, responding to our post about a text exchange between him and Tina Fey. Those wacky comedians. Those wacky gossip columnists.
Apr 14th
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Tina Fey dishes on Sen. Al Franken →
The “30 Rock” star said her former “Saturday Night Live” colleague Franken kept asking her for money while he was running for Senate in 2008, but she kept ducking him. After he’d won the recount, she texted him: “See, you didn’t need my $4,000 to win after all.” Franken, she said, texted back a blunt, two-word message.
Apr 14th
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LensCrafters to Bachmann: Leave us out of it →
“Julie Maslov, communications director for Luxottica Retail, the parent company for LensCrafters, said the company contacted Bachmann’s office Tuesday and asked that she stop making the comparison.” OK. So how about … “the Wal-Mart of big abortion”? The Menards? Home Depot?
Apr 14th
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nationaljournal: Stephen Colbert is shocked that former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said he was running for president on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, “Declaring your candidacy for president is supposed to be special. You only get to do it once, so you want to wait for that perfect journalist to share it with. Not just give it up to the first guy who asks.” Jimmy Kimmel isn’t sure President...
Apr 14th
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The extreme, job-destroying, reasonable and... →
So what is this calamitous hike the president may sign on to? It’s simply the tax rate from when Bill Clinton was president. Incidentally, that was the last time the federal budget was balanced, too.
Apr 13th
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Pawlenty taps Seaton as political director →
Jon Seaton, a former adviser to John McCain and George W. Bush, will join Tim Pawlenty’s campaign as political director.
Apr 13th
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“Countless rows of refugee tents were a new feature of the border landscape. From...”
– Great post by my friend Jeff Severns Guntzel: The Baghdad I knew: Before and after the fall. Jeff first visited Iraq in October 1998 and his post reflects on all the change in the area — I thought the quote above was pretty powerful. (via bigboxcar) The whole piece is worth a read. Hard to believe...
Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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“I would rather strap kittens to my face, than listen to this refuse.”
– An iTunes commenter reviewing Max Sparber and Coco Mault’s recent iPad-produced album “Underwear Party.” Max wrote about the process — and the harsh criticism — in today’s Max About Town.
Apr 8th
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“Here, everybody knows you and everything about you whether you like it or not....”
– Kelly Schoenfelder, 21, who just graduated from the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. She’s returned to her hometown of Grand Marais. From “Should I stay or should I go? Voices from rural Minnesota” (via ruralmn)
Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
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MinnPost's operations director leaving, so we're... →
MinnPost’s director of operations, Karl Pearson-Cater, is leaving us after leading our technology efforts for three years. So, we’re hiring! MinnPost is looking for a hybrid ‘information architect / project manager / web developer / web strategist’ — a director of technology, a title which we think best describes the work. We are in the early stages of...
Apr 6th
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“This is all dressed up as a way to help solve the budget problem, but what...”
– Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin, from “In seeking to cut transit, Legislature is out of step with new trends.” At its extreme the House bill could force fares to rise by as much as $4 a ride or reduce regular-route service by as much as 45 percent, prompting layoffs of as...
Apr 6th
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“Elko is also the early front-runner for the buzzkill award, tweeting,...”
– MinnPost - Braublog: Star Tribune web redesign: Open thread Aw, I’m that guy.  (via tomelko)
Apr 5th
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“We may not in this room have tiger blood like he does. But we do have something...”
–  Former Minnesota Gov. and Republican presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty, making pop culture references at a speech in Iowa last week. (via officialssay) We’re curious how Pawlenty thinks about his relationship with the youth vote.  (via theatlantic)
Apr 5th
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Apr 1st
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Apr 1st
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Policies that built first-ring suburbs in 1950s... →
If the comments on this piece are any indication, defining what qualifies as a “first-ring” suburb is quite the touchy subject. neighborhoodr-minneapolis: There are two ways to think about the decline and impending decay of the inner suburbs, a hot topic around the country. One is to consider it part of a natural progression. Just as older Northeastern and Midwestern cities began...
Apr 1st
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