Ride to End Alzheimer’s Aims for a Cure
Nearly 300 riders, many of whom have a loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, raised $270,000 in October for the first-ever ALZ ride in Minnesota.
Category: Health
IPCC Would Urge Us to Defend the Roof Depot in East Phillips
The City of Minneapolis is at odds with the East Phillips neighborhood over the Roof Depot site, where community-led efforts can help fight against colonialism and remedy the climate crisis.
Must We Choose Between Hygge and Healthy Air?
During a long and cold winter, the beauty and warmth of a fire can be a great source of comfort. But, there is plenty of evidence that wood fire smoke can be hazardous.
Rondo Park Now Features Outdoor Exercise Equipment
Though it has some resemblance to one, it’s not a playground for adults: it’s an outdoor fitness park.
National Links: 300 Languages, One Street
Along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, more than 300 languages are spoken. As the 7 train runs over the “artery of life”, commerce explodes underneath with vibrancy and community. The street is a microcosm of the world and what goes on there sometimes impacts what happens on the other side of the globe.
National Links: Public Health and Crypto Cities
How the design of our cities fails to promote our health and how one Texas city may turn to a crypto company to pay off its burdensome debts.
2022 Bikeable Community Workshops
Help communities in Minnesota become more bike friendly through Bikeable Community Workshops. Learn ways to advocate for biking in your community in 2022.
National Links: From Segways to Highways
Every day at The Overhead Wire, we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. […]
National Links: The Weight of an EV
Every day at The Overhead Wire, we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. […]
Highway 280: Put It Back the Way It Was
Highway 280 was transformed into a freeway in the wake of the I-35W bridge collapse in 2007. Now MnDOT is making it bigger and faster, even though the reason for the upgrade has long since disappeared.