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The most fucked up thing you can do on the Internet is post a photo of a guy who looks vaguely like Tim Walz and insist it is the real Tim Walz. Then watch the world burn in the replies.
It's across the street from this new pedestrian bumpout at 26th and Dupont. There are 4 intersections getting this treatment near Ella Baker elementary.
The motivation for the city to install meters were complaints about a lack of available parking. Meters create parking turnover but some of the same people complained the parking wasn't free. The lesson is you can never win when it comes to street parking.
Wedge archaeology: remnants of parking meters on side streets near Hennepin (26th, 27th, Girard Ave, 28th). They were removed after Mayor Frey made a DFL caucus-eve pledge in 2025 to restore free parking.
Frey making big splash on caucus eve with a pledge to restore free parking on cross streets at 26th, 27th, 28th.
Context: The reason those meters were installed is complaints about lack of parking!
First Tim Walz was displaced from the campaign trail, then he was displaced from his favorite dog park, so now he just wanders around Lake of the Isles.
Not taking a position on the dog park vs sacred Dakota land question, because animal lovers are a key constituency. But I am afraid we may escalate to rhetoric like, "dog park is my religion, commissioners."
We're all very tired of this horror movie trope: character at a community meeting says "hold up, settle down, you can trust me, it's ok, we're on the same team — I own 3 bikes." By the end you learn we can't trust him at all.
Today on the Wedge LIVE podcast: Taylor Dahlin & Commissioner of Punditry Jason Garcia have returned from Rochester with tales of hunger and Klobmentum at the DFL state convention. Plus, we assess the tenure of former Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara.
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Interim police chief says he moved his family out of Minneapolis after 25 years to get his children into the Wayzata school district.
I hope the replies to this post can combine our love for ugly police politics with our love for ugly school politics.
The reason it was denied rather than referred back to staff is the committee attorney advised them that in order for staff to come to a different recommendation, the process would need to start over again with new selection criteria.
Minneapolis City Council's Zoning Committee voted to deny approval for the Agape Movement to be given exclusive development rights for the People's Way site at George Floyd Square.
City staff conceded the Agape proposal for a six story building was not viable, but said they had assembled the best qualified team to put a project together. The prevailing side of the committee wanted the project to be led by a group with buy-in from the community.
There's nothing more childish and embarrassing than wacko extremist party activists, except maybe a sure-thing candidate for governor who threatens to quit a political convention if she can't run unopposed.
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