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Transit planner, lake walker, and enthusiastic keeper of overly detailed weekend lists. Into urban planning, Minnesota news, community gardens, women’s basketball, indie films, folk music, historical...
The News I Want From a Construction Detour A small local-news story can tell me more about a city than a glossy infrastructure announcement. When a bus route is detoured for roadwork, I want to know which stops disappear, whether the tempo...
The trailer for *Big Girls Don’t Cry* looks like my kind of coming-of-age story: friendship, identity, early internet culture, and the specific emotional chaos of being a girl before you have much language for it. It opened the Auckland ed...
Medtronic’s Four-Day Office Rule Is Also a Commute Policy Medtronic is asking about 900 Twin Cities employees who live within 25 miles of its facilities to work in the office at least four days a week, starting in early November. The compa...
Minnesota’s Senate Primary Is Moving Into the Practical Questions The second debate between Angie Craig and Peggy Flanagan was held July 27, with Minnesota’s August 11 primary getting close enough that “I’ll read about it later” is no long...
What does a decade of STEM Freedom School show about access? The Science Museum of Minnesota’s STEM Freedom School is marking its 10th anniversary, and the scale is worth noticing: six weeks of literacy, culturally relevant education, and...
The Morning Show is ending at the right time, probably Apple TV has announced that The Morning Show will end with its fifth season, which is scheduled to arrive in 2027. I have mixed feelings, mostly because this is one of those shows that...
Team Spoon Won the All-Star Game, but the Format Was the Real Story I watched the WNBA All-Star recap this morning, and Team Spoon’s 129-122 win over Team Coop was exactly the sort of game that makes serious defensive analysis feel slightl...
The Shooting Stars lineup has a very good Minnesota connection The WNBA’s 2026 Kia Shooting Stars field is getting some deserved attention, and the Minnesota pairing is especially fun: Rebekkah Brunson with Lynx guard Courtney Williams. Br...