Minneapolis reported a near-record 96 homicides in 2021, and in early 2021 a rash of carjackings had started to spread to the suburbs. The additional air patrol resources and 20 troopers the patrol plans to assign to theTwinCities area July 8-9 will focus on combating street racing.
Living in Minneapolis-Saint Paul (TwinCities), Minnesota, I listen to the stories of other abolitionists to learn how they came to this radical approach, and about what people are doing to model and build the world we want to see.
Restaurans and bars in Minneapolis and St. Paul are responding to the intensifying opioid crisis by carrying naloxone, Narcan, and fentanyl test strips to support harm reduction.
Yesterday before the US House Committee on Financial Affairs, Minnesota Restauranteur Brian Ingram spoke about his experiences running restaurants intheTwinCities, specifically Minneapolis from both before the pandemic and George Floyd's death and to the present.
Choi and his family first came to the city for seminary with a sense that planting a new church was in his future. So, Choi, a church planting missionary with the North American Mission Board (NAMB), had been invested in and living inthecommunity for several years.
Severe storms bring damage across theTwinCities and southern Minnesota. Tornadoes were reported in southern Minnesota a line of severe weather swept across the state. Tap the link in our bio for the latest.
Spring is a wonderful time of year intheTwinCities, with plenty of activities and events to enjoy.The Midtown Greenway is a 5.5-mile bike trail that runs throughMinneapolis, connecting the Chain of Lakes to the Mississippi River.
Ditto for the owners of two landmark TwinCities restaurants—Jax Cafe in Minneapolis, Mancini's Char House in St. Paul—who’ve long managed workforces repped by hospitality union Unite Here Local 17, the umbrella under which Kim and del Prado workers are organizing.
When both TwinCities Living and Minnesota Monthly include a neighborhood on their lists of Top TwinCities neighborhoods it's worth paying attention. If you don't already know Minneapolis' North Loop you should take a look at this neighborhood that both young hipsters and...
A short time later, CrimeWatch obtained video from a passerby inthe Loring Park neighborhood that showed numerous vehicle windows broken near West 14th Street and La Salle Avenue. The video showed at least a dozen vehicles with windows smashed out on the block.
I find Columbia Heights to be a really odd place. In terms of the older, long time residents, it's almost like someone dropped a close knit rural town inthe middle of the cities, complete with an active VFW and Lions Club - that sort of thing.
Minneapolis, and with it, the fight for justice and equality in general, is in largely uncharted territory. From the looks of it, the people elected to help lead their communitiesthroughtimes like these aren't willing to do their most basic job: Be there.
Between July 9 and Friday, the Metro Transit ran two-car trains on the Blue and Green Lines. It’s part of a bigger plan to address safety concerns, to make the cars cleaner, and to enhance more interaction between riders and Metro Transit Police.
