Amazing, thanks!

Please

Photo negative of a man a kid standing in front of our house.

Photo negative of a man and woman standing in front of our house.

We’re renovating our kitchen in South Minneapolis and found some photo negatives in the rubble under the stairs—these two are taken in front of our house. After some sleuthing, we’ve determined that this is the family who lived here in the 1940s and 50s!

Two non-roadworth MGs in a Diamond Lake alley

The four quadrants of Minneapolis, as distinguished by their typical non-roadworthy cars in the alley
South Minneapolis: It's a 1980s car and its Gen X owner hopes to restore it one day, either to drive themself or for their teenage kid to drive to hockey practice

I had an out of town visitor say about Bryant: “ that’s an aggressive bike lane to put on such a quiet street”

A map that will make all parties mad: it’s all South Minneapolis

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In my experience the term “South Minneapolis” is common because most people don’t actually know where the neighborhoods are.

Me: I live in Kingfield
Them: oh yeah, where is that again?
Me: South Minneapolis
Them: oh ok so near Uptown

Neighborhoods of Minneapolis - Wikipedia

Official sources appear to believe that Southwest and South Minneapolis do not exist at the same level of aggregation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbo...

Corollary, if you live at Lake and Nicollet, do you live in Southwest Minneapolis?

This is a good reminder that Minneapolis is an incredibly new city (as old cities go).

Hey!

Wow, this seems like a pretty big deal.

This is...just terrible. My husband is really good at coming up with clever names for trivia teams and I'm 100% sure he could have branded our university WAY better than this.

Oof yeah. This is like SEPTA’s “We’re Getting There” but not funny

I still feel like Uptown's primary issue is that it used to be the center of urban development demand in the region and that center has shifted to include more places (North Loop, Mill, Northeast etc).

Combine that with the fact that demand is only so high (we're not Seattle) and you get cycles

Thanks for the context. I would definitely say that falls under refusal. But a refusal that could be addressed.

So does St Paul just refuse to give signal priority? Or does it just work poorly and they refuse to fix it?

When did they move from 15 to 12 mins? I feel like 2024, but might've been 2025. Headways should def be 10 or lower, but I wonder if this is partly measurement (trip counters getting older).

Then again, this is what you'd expect if there's a reduction in choice rides, likely more common on LRT

Gotta show the whole distribution. It’s all good biking weather

This is great, but it does have me wishing they collected the before and after data at locations NOT covered by speed cameras to make sure there wasn't a seasonal trend in speeding.

This is an amazing advertisement for Minneapolis: awesome housing, surprisingly affordable

Many workers have missed shifts without jobs being destroyed making it challenging to measure labor impacts with conventional sources.

We use real-time daily data from Homebase to measure impacts. Thanks to UChicago and Homebase for making the data available.
#EconSky #NumbersDay

Boston is definitely on-average warmer without a doubt. My point is that people sometimes talk about Minneapolis as having a categorically distinct winter when there's actually a lot of overlap. My experience is that the extreme days are pretty few (which TBF appears to be a recent phenomenon).

That is FASCINATING. Thanks or bringing data to bear on my anecdote. Full disclosure, this is only my third winter here.

As someone who spent 15 years on the East Coast, I can say that the number of days each winter when the weather is notably colder than what you'd experience in, say, a Boston winter is fewer than 10. Most winter days here are in the 20s.

Minnetoba?

But it’s also correct that getting a false spring in early January doesn’t happen? Like it’s only in the ‘false spring’ stage of winter?

Minnesota natives/long-time residents, is this something? Here we experience many different stages of winter (chilly, snowy, frigid, snowy, chilly etc.) while on, say, the east coast there’s only one winter with varying temps.

That game is the GOAT!

Opinion | In the Resistance, We Drive Minivans

Impossible not to tear up reading this absolutely beautiful essay about the Minneapolis grassroots resistance from the talented Will McGrath.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...