What’s Hidden in Your Neighborhood? Seeing Others Matters Now, More Than Ever
Tamara Jorell • April 23, 2021 Building community happens when we open our eyes to what’s around us.
Category: Delight-Cultivating
Tamara Jorell • April 23, 2021 
Hennepin Avenue: A Street for All Ages
Julia Curran • April 15, 2021 Being raised in a family that didn’t default to driving gave me the wind in my hair as a toddler on the back of my mother’s bike; a sense of self-confidence as my father would walk with me to school; the knowledge that I will always have choices in how I get around. But that […]
Eat Your Greens and Shoots: But Find Them First
Pat Thompson • April 14, 2021 As the ground thaws each spring, edible perennial plants wake up and are there for the taking if you know where and how to look. Follow a few rules so you’re safe and there’s enough for everyone.
Reviews of Minnesota Streets I Have Never Been On: Woodland Circle
Kyle Constalie • March 25, 2021 There is a street in Minnesota, just as surely as there has ever been a street in Idaho, or British Columbia, or Fiji. It’s a street that some person, at some point, is all but certain to have walked on, traveling away from one moment and approaching another. This person, by process of elimination, is […]
In, Out and Around Railroad Island
Wolfie Browender • January 21, 2021 September 23, 2019 23 miles Summit-University, Frogtown (Thomas-Dale), Downtown, Railroad Island (Payne-Phalen), North End, Midway, Lexington-Hamline, Macalester-Groveland, Highland Park Downtown Minnesota’s stunningly beautiful and recently renovated Capitol building obviously is the center piece of the Capitol Complex. However, the Transportation Building, Senate and State Office Buildings, the Judicial Center, and some 10 other structures (and […]
Once in a Lifetime: A Fantasy Transit Adventure
Fred Kreider • November 9, 2020 It’s extremely unfortunate when parties break previous agreements and derail transit projects, as is the case for the Blue Line Extension, aka the Bottineau Line. Since we’re going back to the drawing board, I am hopeful that the collective “we” can begin to right previous wrongs and finally create good transit that will serve communities […]
Curb Appeal: So Much More Than The Front Yard
Tamara Jorell • October 22, 2020 At a house just one block away, the grass looks like turf instead of something real and diagonal lines run through the weed-free growth, evidence of a meticulous mower. I haven’t ever seen anyone either living there or working in the yard, but I imagine an elderly homeowner loving their lawn so much that they […]
Streets.mn Virtual Happy Hour, With Prize Drawings
Tim Brackett • October 7, 2020 Do you like free food for takeaway? Do you need more enamel pins to up your flair game? Do you enjoy hanging out with transit and land-use nerds? If you answered yes to all three, then this coming Friday is your day! Streets.mn is beginning our annual board recruitment phase with a virtual happy hour […]
Reviews of Minnesota Streets I Have Never Been On: Northern Road
Kyle Constalie • September 25, 2020 In the town of Blackduck, Minnesota, not far from the Hungry Duck Restaurant, a stone’s throw from Bogarts Service Tire Shop, an easy walk (I expect) from the Cease Family Funeral Home, runs a street named Northern Road, a street I have never come close to having been on. My inkling is that this street […]
Create Change for a Better World; Be a Volunteer Editor for streets.mn
Erik Ruthruff • September 14, 2020 Do you want to make a positive volunteer contribution while still maintaining safe social distancing? Or do you know someone who does? Please help us pass the word. We need volunteer editors to join our Editorial Board and help proof articles before they get posted on streets.mn. It’s the perfect volunteer job because you only […]