Bill Lindeke • October 14, 2020 • 0 It’s only been eight months since the last Chart of the Day, but this one is a doozy. the US has terrible road safety record when you compare it to European peer countries. Via Streetsblog, here’s one of the more revealing bits of data, showing which countries have made progress over the last thirty years. […]
Tom Basgen • August 27, 2020 Weep and know Death, Land of Sky Blue Waters. There will be no butter blocks carved of your daughters. Eighteen hundred siblings are already dead. All else holds its breath so The Thing won’t spread. The places you ate, the places you drank, The places you danced and flirted, The places you studied, and the […]
I made a grievous mistake in my last post. When I originally sent the copy to the editor, I was under the impression that caucuses were going to be held the evening of the primary at 7 p.m., in the same way the preference ballot and caucuses had been on the same day in 2016. […]
This is what we woke up to last Tuesday. It didn’t have to be this way. From media reports, it sounds like precinct chairs were downloading an untested app the night of the caucus and running into bugs and connectivity issues. When they tried to call in their results as they had four years ago, […]
Welcome to December! In streets.mn news/business/events, although prices have gone up, you can and should buy a ticket to the streets.mn fundraiser this Thursday for an evening of urbanist fun including an “epic trivia battle” and more. And this is my Sunday Summary Summation, as I’ve been recapping streets.mn posts since 2014 and as I […]
Rather a lot of streets.mn organizational news this week: Give to the Max 2019! took place this past Thursday and you gave! Thank you to our donors on GTTM19! The deadline to apply to join the streets.mn board was extended to Monday, November 18 so read about what current board members have to say about […]
There’s still one more week to apply to Join the streets.mn Board for Better Places in Minnesota. If you want some more information and/or to meet current board members before you apply Come to the streets.mn Happy Hour, Meet Board Members on November 14th at Venn Brewing. Also mark your calendar for the annual Winter […]
And there’s still time to Join the streets.mn Board for Better Places in Minnesota. Last week was heavy on Saint Paul election information; if you live in Saint Paul, vote on November 5 (Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night for you Anglophiles – I think fireworks would be an excellent addition to election days if we could find […]
For many years streets.mn has published questionnaires for candidates for local office in the Twin Cities so that our many interested readers can make better informed decisions when they participate in local political races. This year I am focusing on the Saint Paul Ward 1 Council race. The questions were compiled from community member inquiries in my […]
There is still time to Join the streets.mn Board for Better Places in Minnesota; the deadline to apply is November 16. Click through for more information about what’s involved. And you can Join us for a C-Line Ride November 9! to Brooklyn Center, too. And it’s Halloween coming up this week; this is the sidewalk […]