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An Update from Mayor Frey on This Week’s Shooting

In the Face of Violence, We Stand Together Every day, Minneapolis police officers respond to calls not knowing exactly what they are going to encounter. That was the case this week when...

When Speech Becomes Violence—and Violence Becomes Speech

Recent events in Minneapolis show how political loyalty can make offensive speech seem like violence—and actual violence seem...

Threats of violence over data centers: Council Member Michael Rainville

Hello to all my 3rd Ward neighbors, My office has received a lot of correspondence pertaining to the proposed...

Taking the Measure of Four Cities: A Tale of Four Cities, Pt. 2

Seattle, Portland and San Francisco have taken different paths through many of the same challenges Minneapolis faces. Some...

A Rational Progressive Liberal’s Approach—Proven to Work!

The case for a more deliberate progressivism: define the goal, study the consequences, listen to the public, test...

Reputation Management

Promoting a City Where People Want to Live Must Be Intentional Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is off to a rocky start. In April, at a...

Gun Crime Grant: A Message from Council Member Chavez

I condemn the hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric included in the program NOFO, but most importantly, I do not trust the purpose of funding outlined in...

Gun Crime Grant and Looking Ahead: A Message from Council Member Shaffer

The question I raised on the dais is: Where is the same concern, the same passion, the same urgency and outrage over the unacceptable number...

Minneapolis bathhouse ordinance opens a door to sexual exploitation

It’s time for us to wake up and stop the City Council and Mayor Frey from allowing this multibillion-dollar sex industry to turn Minneapolis...

Hoping for steadfast resolve and focus on public safety

As anti-police rhetoric halts crucial safety initiatives at City Hall, Minneapolis needs a council majority willing to separate true accountability from obstruction. Two recent mass...

A Week Focused on Public Safety: A Message from Council Member Elizabeth Shaffer

After this weekend's outrageous spate of mass shootings at 29th & Hennepin and 19th & Nicollet that left 13 wounded and 1 dead – that spilled over into...

Mayor Frey: Responding to Violence with Action

Following a Difficult Weekend, Here's What We're Doing The past few days have been incredibly difficult for Minneapolis. Several serious acts of gun violence have...

The Curley Effect: A Tale of Four Cities, Pt. 1

Political scientists who study local government and politics sometimes write about the Curley Effect. Part 1 of 6 of the Tale of Four Cities series By Terry...

Drones, Heritage Park Relocations, and Lyndale Avenue Bike Lanes

The Minneapolis City Council weighs in on several consequential measures. July 16 Thursday’s city council meeting was difficult to predict. Ward 10 Council Member Aisha Chughtai...

Who Owns the Second Floor? Minneapolis’s Skyway Fight Is Really About Property Rights

A routine push to standardize skyway hours has collided with the Fifth Amendment, reviving an old argument over whether the world's largest enclosed pedestrian...

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