Former director Heidi Barajas honored Where once stood a hair shop, Snow Foods, and the legendary Lucille’s Kitchen, and where, according to Northside Job Creation Team Community Director Bill English, you could “find anything illegal in that parking lot on a Saturday morning,” the University of Minnesota developed its Urban Research Outreach Engagement Center (UROC) in … [Read more...]
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Mpls candidates exchange views on affordable housing
Affordable housing in Minneapolis is among the top issues in the current mayoral and city council campaigns. While Ward 5 city council candidates have largely found common ground over the ward’s housing needs, mayoral candidates disagree over the particulars of how best to address what is becoming a city-wide housing crisis for low-income residents. For the past several … [Read more...]
Lynx achieve dynasty status
Not since the Minneapolis Lakers played here in the 1950s, and not since the Minnesota Twins’ two successful World Series trips in 1987 and 1991, have the Twin Cities seen such a successful pro team as the Minnesota Lynx. This nearly unparalleled record of success reached a new plateau in the team’s thrilling triumph over Los Angeles last Wednesday for yet another … [Read more...]
New Hopkins super on a ‘world class trajectory’
It has been little more than a month on the job for students returning to or starting school in Hopkins School District #270; it has been about four months for the district’s new superintendent, Dr. Rhoda Mhiripiri-Reed. The first few weeks in her new job have been very busy, scheduling meetings with faculty and parents and crisscrossing district sites in seven different … [Read more...]
Residents protest housing authority rehab plans
A tense and surreal feeling hung over the crowd of 50-75 people in the conference room on Wednesday, September 27 at the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA), at 1001 Washington Avenue North. Among the crowd were signs that read “We stand by Glendale,” “Do not lie to us” “Put people over profits” and “Housing is a right.” The public meeting was held in the MPHA … [Read more...]