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Which is a good start, but still far behind the curve when you think about how most job seekers turn to the internet versus committing to go to a hiring event.

One thing the Met Council needs to consider is overhauling their decrepit application system. A career bureaucrat might be willing to go through page after page of poorly designed forms that require them to repeatedly re-enter information from their resume. Someone applying for a blue collar positio...

On the subject of press neutrality though, Peter Wagenius was also spot on with his comments that if the public works director under Betsy Hodges had withheld information, Hodges would have been the subject of multiple Strib articles blaming her directly for the withholding of information. The Star ...

I don't necessarily see him as a successful challenger. But between the family name and the inflated sense of his own accomplishments/capabilities in his current role, I can see him trying.

That is, until Rainville challenges him. Wouldn't be the first time a Ward 3 first term council member challenged a mayor on their law and order bonafides.

I wholeheartedly support the new route through Mpls but if it would shut Robbinsdale up, reverting back to the old one near Lowry/North Memorial would be fine with me.

Never going to happen though, so just get it done.

Someone should assemble all the articles where the Met Council would say "We're sending them our updated plans, surely negotiations will get going soon" and the exact same public relations person from BNSF would say, in increasingly sarcastic ways, "As we keep telling you, we're not l...

Seems like if they can't get the original alignment, their preference is that the project dies in purgatory. Because you'd think it would have been explained to them at this point that freight railroads aren't accountable to anyone.

Why didn't you feel as it was accurate to our region? Short answer is because our most used transit lines tend to be buses, and without them feeding into our LRT lines, the regional planning/political motivation of our route planning is much more stark and damning. Disclaimer - I was not playing on...

I tried this out but I ended up modding in buses because otherwise it didn't feel very accurate to our region.

Do you think anyone on the bus tour actually got out of the vehicle and stood in the middle of that 6-lane highway? What an awful place to have to cross and then wait for a train!!! This is where I wish our public officials were a bit braver in pushing back when someone says something silly like &q...

I guess for a town that thinks taking away two lanes from a six lane freeway will be "tearing the community in two", a giant parking ramp might be the sort of community treasure that resonates with them.

We already have a massive bikable corridor between West End and Downtown. It's called the North Cedar Trail, which now features two freight rail overpasses, the latest of which directly connects to bike lanes on Cedar Lake Road.

Michael Rainville is singlehandedly making the back-to-back 2021 and 2023 council elections seem like a mercy.

Which is a bizarre take because those buses would still be going up and down Hennepin, and this is the difference between them idling in traffic and moving swiftly through the neighborhood.

It's so frustrating that the environmental counterfactual some people think of is people living... nowhere? rather than the counterfactual of development somewhere else, in a form that would clearly be worse for the environment. It makes more sense when you view it through the lens of "abusing...

It was already set for huge improvement prior to MAK’s involvement. The only thing that changed was the 24/7 bus lanes. I don’t know how much credit we should give someone for not ripping up an existing plan entirely, when they could have just done a better job of explaining the justification for th...

I think people would be more than fine with accepting that explanation if it had also come with a frank admission that, yes, we’re keeping the bus lanes at peak times to help businesses feel better about the transition and brought forth a plan with timetables for staged implementation of full time l...

It’s bad enough we have to deal with billionaire sportball owners blackmailing our city every few decades, leaving land undeveloped to preemptively appease them is just about the worst way to approach the role of metro government and planning.

Nextdoor is responding to this as if someone proposed a toxic waste dump at 44th and France. As expected.