10 sure signs you’re a Twin Cities urbanist
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In the style of Buzzfeed, I present to you… a waste of time for 30 seconds.
1) Every time you go past the Lake Street K-Mart, you are like… Continue Reading
The Hennepin County 2040 Bike Plan: Cassie’s notes
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Late this fall Hennepin County put out a draft of its new 2040 Bicycle Plan for public review and comment. This long-range vision and planning document piqued my interest but, oof, the thing is 116 pages long! Not the easiest to tackle in terms of length, especially for bike-loving-yet-busy folks who might not have time to comb through it. In true librarian form, I decided to read the plan through and compile a sort of Cassie’s Notes version (who’s that Cliff guy, anyway?) to hopefully provide easier access to the information for more folks. This post gives a (relatively) short overview of the vision, goals, strategies, and actions of the Hennepin County 2040 Bike Plan. Continue Reading
Faculty unionizers want support from students
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Advocates of faculty unionization at the University of Minnesota are asking for the support of a new group: students.
Community health overview: Korean Americans
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According to the 2010 U.S. Census the eight largest Asian American populations in Minnesota are the Hmong, Asian Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Filipino, Laotian, and Cambodian communities. Specifically, 27 percent of the total population identify themselves as Hmong, 15.5 percent are Asian Indian, 11.7 percent are Chinese, 11.1 percent are Vietnamese, 4.9 percent are Laotians, and 3.9 percent are Cambodians (See Figure 2). Continue Reading
Transit Improvements are coming to West Broadway
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Mass transit is an important resource to North Minneapolis residents in particular.
Black Friday protests; Hands up, don’t shop
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If the Storify story doesn’t appear, refresh your browser. Original story here.[<a href=”//storify.com/maryturck/hands-up-don-t-buy” target=”_blank”>View the story “Black Friday protests: Hands up, don’t shop” on Storify</a>] Continue Reading
Trains, planes and automobiles go through his district: Kelly lays out transportation chair cred
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Bluestem wasn’t the only one wondering why Representative Tim Kelly was selected to chair the powerful House Transportation Policy and Finance Committee. Continue Reading
Dinkytown religions influenced students’ lives
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The Rev. Bill Teska, who leads a small Minneapolis Episcopalian congregation that meets in the University Baptist Church at 1219 University Ave. S.E., and Don Olson, who spent 20 months in federal prison for disrupting draft offices in 1970, led a discussion on Nov. 22, on the role of religion in the peace and civil rights movements of the 1960s.
Many of their old meeting places near Dinkytown in Minneapolis no longer exist.
Taking over Hiawatha Avenue
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Thousands of protesters responding to the Ferguson, MO, grand jury decision gathered Tuesday night in south Minneapolis. But the local headline fodder was the story of the pedestrian protester struck and injured by a car at the intersection of Lake and Minnehaha. Continue Reading
VIDEO: Retail cleaners stand up for better pay and working conditions
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While shoppers crowded Minnesota stores for “Black Friday” shopping, the workers who clean those stores demonstrated in Minneapolis for better pay and working conditions.