Exactly this. On the signal priority, there are only so many red lights one can wait at in a train before going a little crazy. Such a simple fix too if anyone would care enough too.
Keep up the good work!
History will look back on the leaders of Minneapolis and what they did to stand up for our residents during and after Trump’s invasion of our city.
Zak with another banger of an essay. Doesn't hurt that he lives in Chicago, the city where most of the good papers on highways effects have looked at (bagagli, Brinkman and Lin etc.). Always worth the read!
I have spent an absurd amount of time reading the academic literature on highways, and it is always interesting to me how much the evidence backs up the gut feeling of "highways within cities are bad." Economists, sociologists, etc. pretty much all show that there are really bad effects from them.
They got so close to saying the quiet part out loud.
People at tonight's meeting were like hold up what do you mean there's no plan? We heard about it at the Uptown Association meeting last year. Shaffer said: "We should see if we can find tape of the meeting." Lucky I recorded it on my vcr cassette recorder.
youtu.be/q4CMemtsiGc?...
Oh my lord, he really did. This isn't a joke.
Minnesota Senate Minnesota Senate Building 95 West University Avenue Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155 Minnesota House State Office Building 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvo Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155 March 10, 2026 Dear Mayor Frey, As elected officials who represent Minneapolis, we ask you to sign Pause Evictions Save Lives (legislative file 2026-00099). Temporarily extending the pre-eviction notice from 30 to 60 days gives our residents extra time that is desperately needed to help find resources to prevent eviction. We've all been amazed by our shared constituents' resiliency and resolve in the face of ICE's illegal occupation of our City. Our residents banded together to protect one another, even raising millions of dollars in mutual aid funds to help keep their neighbors in their homes. It's our duty as elected officials to match the commitment in our residents to try and keep as many of our neighbors in their homes as possible. We look to Minneapolis to lead the way and are working on similar bills to extend pre-eviction notices statewide to help our neighbors. Signing the Pause Evictions Save Lives measure will bolster our efforts and reinforce our message to our colleagues about the way in which pre-eviction notices help prevent families from being evicted. We've been so proud of the work of the City of Minneapolis to respond to this unprecedented federal invasion. Your work to increase funding for immigration legal services, rental assistance, and creating a small business resiliency fund has shown how elected officials can meet the moment. Signing Pause Eviction Save Lives is the next step in helping our residents recover and ensure none of them are left behind. Sincerely, DoaChh Senator Doron Clark Minnesota Senate District 60 Senator Melissa Wiklund Minnesota Senate District 51
Senator Zaynab Mohamed Minnesota Senate District 63 D. Scott Dibble Senator Scott Dibble Minnesota Senate District 61 Representative Sydney Jordan Minnesota House District 60A Ema Gram Representative Emma Greenman Minnesota House District 63B Representative Mohamud Noor Minnesota House District 60B Senator Omar Fateh Minnesota Senate District 62 Pallay Senator Bobby Joe Champion Minnesota Senate District 59 Katie fores Representative Katie Jones Minnesota House District 61A Samith SimMon Representative Samantha Sencer-Mura Minnesota House District 63A Representative Esther Agbaje Minnesota House District 59B
Representative Fue Lee Minnesota House District 59A Chick Mor Representative Aisha Gomez Minnesota House District 59A Representative Anquam Mahamoud Minnesota House District 62B Representative Michael Howard Minnesota House District 51A
elected officials in the minnesota state senate and house representing minneapolis have sent a letter to mayor jacob frey urging him not to veto the pause evictions, save lives bill which would extend the notice period from 30 days to 60 to address the financial impact of the ICE occupation
Kennedy: "you're posting on blueskii"
Always amazes me how Frey has escaped criticism for "The Fall of Uptown", when he's been mayor for nearly the entirety of it. The pacs were like, "we need Frey to save uptown", as if he wasn't already mayor and not saving uptown according to them.
I also wonder, if Iran doesn't do a terror attack, trump might just make one happen himself and say it was Iran. Would be a real convenient excuse to cancel the midterms.
The shortest distance between where we are now and entrenched fascism is a terror attack. That is why we are at war with Iran. That is why Trump shrugs at the possibility of deaths on U.S. soil. And that is why Patel fired the FBI's Iranian counter-intel personnel before the first bomb fell.
If local governments want to provide relief from high gas prices RIGHT NOW:
1. Quick build bike and scooter lanes that are languishing as plans. Call it temporary, just cut the process theatre and make it happen. Get staff to scope more.
2. Flex general funding to run more transit service.
Always love the "Minneapolis loop" throwback.
But yeah, we did not need the freeways in downtown.
Americans are addicted to cars, but in many ways it's a forced addiction. Decades of policy have made cars the dominant mode of travel at the expense of others, and marketing reinforces the car as the "best" choice. This isn't to excuse individual choices, but car dependency is a systemic issue.
Minnesota lawmaker Katie Jones rode in a cargo e-bike to the hospital for her baby's birth. Her husband, Peter Schmitt, pedaled the two miles there.
On the return journey, their son Hans – all 8 pounds and 1 ounce of him – was bundled up and handled it just fine, Jones said.
War is peace, peace is was. We've always been at war with Eurasia.
The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.
15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.
The birds are flying without wings! The fish swimming without fins! The people walking without legs!
A bill with $40 million in rent relief is headed to the Minnesota Senate floor next week. Lead author @lindseyportmn.bsky.social crafted a bill that addresses the urgency of the moment.
Plus, the bill includes my provision to extend pre eviction notices from 14 to 30 days temporarily.
What are the chances this leads to World War 3? Is 5% too high? Not high enough?
Yes it sucks I get it, nobody wants their business not to do well. But also, sometimes shit happens and you have to be able to weather the storm. We are talking about a disaster caused by the Federal Government, that is going to be costly and everybody unfortunately has to eat some of the costs.
Exactly. Let's be real, a lot of other businesses are really feeling the effects of Operation Metro Surge. You could realistically say that a restaurant (or other business) having to close for 2 months to keep their employees safe is approximately the same as a landlord losing 2 months of rent.
Still pisses me off everytime I think about it. I haven't been able to take down my window sign yet... it's a sign of something better we could have had.
They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that
Where's Land Value Tax when you need it?
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
The average Minneapolis citizen is a million times braver than a minneapolis cop. Or any cop for that matter.
I mean, yes it's expensive, but also, most houses aren't paying their full social costs (particularly suburban houses). And also, if you're in the position to own a rental, you do run the risk of not getting rental income sometimes. Profits are not guaranteed and shouldn't be expected to be.
