St. Paul Needs to Connect its Brewery to its Bike Trail
Few Twin Cities breweries connect directly to off-street bike trails. St. Paul Brewing should — and possibly soon could — with a popular trail beyond its fence line.
Category: Food
Tragedy at Neighborhood Scale at Oak Grove Grocery
The murder of an employee led to Oak Grove Grocery’s closure, and a grim demonstration of the importance of local businesses to walkable neighborhoods.
Grocery Delivery 2023: How Grocer Inflation Compares
Tired of watching your grocery bill rise? Where you shop for groceries and what’s in your cart are the greatest influencers of cost.
How to Simplify a Complicated Holiday
A car-free Thanksgiving celebration, even if not completely traditional, is still a time to be grateful and connected with community around you.
Vegan? Vegan-Curious? Climate-Conscious? This Bike Event Is for You!
Interested in learning how to combine your love of biking with a plant-only diet? Check out the first ever plant-based bike crawl in the Twin Cities.
Let’s (St)roll There — Biking for Blueberries
A long ride on a cool cargo bike to a Stillwater farm is the first entry in our new series, “Let’s (St)roll There.”
Summer 2022 Highway News Roundup
Google Maps Silliness Minnesota has about a hundred legally named highways and bridges, written into law in Minnesota Statute § 161.14. Some of the early ones like the Viking Trail and the Sioux Trail were possibly intended to mark motoring touring routes. But overwhelmingly the highways are named in memory of local politicians, veterans or […]
Fast Food and Fast-Casual Restaurants in a Post-Pandemic Era
Fast-food and fast-casual restaurants are surviving the pandemic by emphasizing drive-through or take-out service, a boon for COVID-wary consumers and the auto-focused suburbs.
National Links: Fast-Food Manager Opposes Drive-Through
What happens when a fast-food manager opposes a drive-through as anti-transit? That’s right: He gets fired.
Replacing the Car: Groceries
My mother would do the shopping once a week, filling her cart and car with groceries. We would dutifully unload and put away all the food we may or may not eat over the next week, as this was just how things were done. As an adult, I kept the same practices. Of course I […]