In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“For now, the Iranian regime is not crumbling, but is expanding the war. The Iranian people are not overthrowing their government, and the war is spreading across the region,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.
major update, Marvina Haynes, founder of MN Wrongfully Convicted Judical Reform & former ward 4 council candidate, is running with Tara Widner, for Vice Chair of SD59 DFL tomorrow @ convention.
this is the LEADERSHIP the Northside needs & deserves. plz spread the word to ur North Minneapolis folks.
My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it.
Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/07/p... Iran killed six US Army Reserve members in a drone strike in Kuwait.
NY Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.
Southwest Ohio's representatives took two diverging paths in a bid to force President Trump to get congressional approval for waging war in Iran. Warren Davidson voted to support a War Powers Authorization. Greg Landsman joined 4 Ds voting no.
Council Member Stevenson criticized Palmisano for questioning CURA's authority.Stevenson specifically cited the PHD holders from CURA members. Wonsley expressed skepticism on whether nonprofit housing complexes really have their tenants best interest. AEON is an ex: ccxmedia.org/news/pending...
Council Member Linea Palmisano questioned why other members cite the work from the UofM 's Center for Urban & Regional Affairs as sole experts on rental issues.Palmisano said the letter consigned from the nonprofit execs were more credible. Here is CURA's report. www.cura.umn.edu/research/ren...
Council Member Aurin Chowdhury raised concerns about how property managers are Nox apartments are reportedly preemptively issuing evictions well in advance of the due date. This is the photo that went viral.
Council Member Jason Chavez said he is concerned that St. Paul appears poised to temporarily extend its eviction notice requirement to 60 days while Minneapolis may veto a similar ordinance. St. Paul is scheduled to consider the ordinance on March 11.
After Operation Metro Surge forced many workers indoors, Minneapolis City Council is considering temporarily extending the timeline required for landlords to file an eviction from 30 days to 60 days. Jamal Osman said that he heard rumors that Mayor Jacob Frey may veto the ordinance if passed.
Philippine Tycoon Tony Tan Caktiong’s Jollibee-Backed Highlands Coffee Mulls Vietnam IPO
The New York is looking for summer 2026 sports reporting intern.
Pay: $20/hour
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youtu.be/NRf1AGWVBGI "I'll also encourage council members to exhibit a level of decorum," Council Member Aurin Chowdhury said when Pearll Warren pressed Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on an unrelated topic.
Minneapolis advance a proposal that would require landlords give renters 60 days notice before filing a complaint in eviction court: spokesman-recorder.com/2026/03/04/m...
The Minneapolis Committee of the Whole is set for public comment on the extending the pre eviction notice to 60 days. Last year an ordinance took effect that required landlords to give renters a 30 day notice before filing an eviction in court.
ProPublica contacted state health agencies across the South and found most do not require hospitals to report measles-related admissions.
Alabama is among the few that do. Virginia does too, but it doesn’t release that data to the public.
There are collective exhales, moans and just shrieks of laughter inside the Minneapolis City Council Chambers over flow room every time Councilor Pearl Warren speaks about the drug paraphernalia ordinance.
At the council chamber in Minneapolis to see how council votes on whether to extend the eviction notice from 30 to 60 days. Council Members LaTrisha Vetaw and Pearll Warren raised concerns that there are new violence prevention groups applying for city contracts.
Some gems. I don't know if these two are compulsively stupid or knew that this was bullshit and were outright lying.
Details of the detainment of these protesters are atrocious
From @combs0294.bsky.social
spokesman-recorder.com/2026/03/02/f...
For those looking for additional data points about what's happening with immigration enforcement in Minnesota and other states, our habeas case tracker has just been updated. TLDR new cases have dropped: projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...
“They came to my house to try to scare me, I invited them in for lunch.”
Two weeks ago, I shared that ICE boxed me in outside my house.
What I DIDN’T share was that I had New York Times reporter Charles Homans and his photographer with me in the car!
🔗: spokesman-recorder.com/2026/03/02/f...
🚨Asst. A.G. Harmeet Dhillon described last weekends arrest of Church Cites protest as "safely & fast". Defendendants and witnesses described how HSI & FBI agents aggressviley arrested two defendants: Andrew Edwards forced into a court room in his boxers & Thomas Tier who had his car wrecked twice.
They charge them $60 or $50 to get into this establishment, and then, they’re not safe,” Potts said. “Then, they’re letting people in that are not good people or have firearms on them when they were frisked on through the door. She said they patted her down, so she thought she would be safe.”
The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.
Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).
spokesman-recorder.com/2026/02/27/h... Hennepin Co. Libraries does not published a list of titles withdrawn from their catalog. Doug Bjostad is monitoring book removals to makes sure BIPOC authors are conspicuously pulled from local branches.
South Carolina voters must have some serious first-world problems if their leading gubernatorial candidate, Nancy Mace, is more focused on commenting about representatives in Minnesota and Michigan than addressing a measles outbreak at home.
www.startribune.com/as-another-r... Twin Cities Tenant Union had only 641 pledges -well short of the 10,000 necessary to sustain a strike. That's why members voted against a rent strike. Solutions: They're not coming from local or state government.
