Seems like Warren (ward 5) Whiting (11) are against eviction pause from 30 to 60 days. Pro landlord.
Contact them now if you think tenants deserve more time to pay rent.
“Tarzhay” is French for letting ICE stage in your parking lots, letting ICE brutalize your teenage employees and kidnap your customers.
WCCO YouTube thumbnail of Bovino launching gas grenades into Mueller Park. headline: "did you see feds commit crimes in Minneapolis?"
Hennepin County Attorney debuts new evidence portal. Submit evidence you may have of federal agents conducting lawless rampages.
www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/20...
Note: this is different from the now-closed portal for evidence related to the Renee Good and Alex Pretti murders.
On Tuesday, the Minneapolis City Council will be voting on a resolution urging Congress to adopt the Abolish ICE Act and Melt ICE Act.
lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCA...
I guess the reason you bring in Tom Homan as your top fraud guy in Minnesota is that he has experience accepting $50,000 cash in a fast food bag from an undercover FBI agent.
katie cashman at her campaign party last night at bruhaven in loring park. it was nice to feel represented for 2 of the 15 years i’ve lived in ward 7
@katiecashman.bsky.social
Every Star Tribune Minneapolis City Hall story would be improved by adding the sentence “The police budget is up $50 million in three years.” bsky.app/profile/wedg...
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
@mikenorton.org summoned
Screenshot from a minnpost article with the phrase “the environmental benefits are compelling but so will be the loss of free-market innocence” highlighted
In the rabbit hole on the trash wars now, excellent reading. Favorite take so far is def wholesome capitalism
Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
An amazing group of people to be a part of! Minneapolis, these are great ways to plug in!
Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly
City budget fact check: the idea that local taxes are increasing because of bike and bus lanes is the local equivalent of very ignorant people complaining about foreign aid in the federal budget.
one of the podjons (i think the straight one) in reference to that NYT piece about how “special interests” like trans people and immigrants lost the dems the election: “Dems should resist any group or special interest that pressures them to take positions opposed by the electoral majority essential to win, whether that's big corporations, rich donors, nonprofits, whoever. This isn't about blaming specific groups for defeat - it's about what's required to win.”
growing chorus of “throw trans people to the wolves” from high profile libs is not shocking but it is certainly nerve-wracking lol
hey there are a lot of new folks on here! if you’re in twin cities media and you’d like to be added to this lil starter pack, the offer still stands—just yell at me and i’ll pop ya in! go.bsky.app/DdAVgKi
![The biggest sticking point among restaurateurs interviewed was wages. The Minneapolis minimum wage of $15.57 is nearly $5 more than in neighboring suburbs that abide by the state's minimum wage of $10.85. (In St. Paul, the minimum wage is $14 for businesses with fewer than 100 employees, a category fitting many restaurants.) Minneapolis' minimum wage will rise to $15.97 on Jan. 1. As the owner of a medium-sized, full-service restaurant, Ikeda uses about 20,000 to 25,000 hours a year of front-of-the-house staffing. "So every year, another dollar an hour adds another $20-$25,000 burden on the business," he said. "That's a challenge for any restaurateur, no matter how successful they appear to be." The wage differences directly affect staffers, too, who may work multiple restaurants in more than one city. Jen Boss works primarily as a server at Heather's in south Minneapolis, where she earns $15.57 an hour, plus pooled tips. But she also takes shifts at the Heather's location that just opened in Minnetonka, where she gets $10.85, and only the tips
she brings in herself. “I love Heather [owner Heather Asbury] and I love what she does and I was willing to come out for a shift or two knowing that it's a little bit different, but it's drastic," Boss said. "I was
shocked that 10-something actually still existed."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2yhglxsi2owchryafic2gmr3/bafkreihaqzh3ybsrby43ps6eeqm2vzmqwghs2spjo3wkeapiw5ynormtgm)
The biggest sticking point among restaurateurs interviewed was wages. The Minneapolis minimum wage of $15.57 is nearly $5 more than in neighboring suburbs that abide by the state's minimum wage of $10.85. (In St. Paul, the minimum wage is $14 for businesses with fewer than 100 employees, a category fitting many restaurants.) Minneapolis' minimum wage will rise to $15.97 on Jan. 1. As the owner of a medium-sized, full-service restaurant, Ikeda uses about 20,000 to 25,000 hours a year of front-of-the-house staffing. "So every year, another dollar an hour adds another $20-$25,000 burden on the business," he said. "That's a challenge for any restaurateur, no matter how successful they appear to be." The wage differences directly affect staffers, too, who may work multiple restaurants in more than one city. Jen Boss works primarily as a server at Heather's in south Minneapolis, where she earns $15.57 an hour, plus pooled tips. But she also takes shifts at the Heather's location that just opened in Minnetonka, where she gets $10.85, and only the tips she brings in herself. “I love Heather [owner Heather Asbury] and I love what she does and I was willing to come out for a shift or two knowing that it's a little bit different, but it's drastic," Boss said. "I was shocked that 10-something actually still existed."
And Minneapolis isn't exactly facing a dearth of new restaurants. More than a dozen high-profile names have opened in the city just this fall.
In the wake of the Minneapolis Labor Standards Board, the Strib highlights restaurateurs who mad at Minneapolis. But dig in, and it turns out several are mad they have to pay more than 10 bucks an hour .. and oh yeah, the Minneapolis restaurant scene still thrives www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...
If I see one more mean skeet about St. Paul from a Minneapolitan, I swear to god I will do absolutely nothing about it.
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tom hoch is running for mayor, pass it on
ok ima make it to Whitefish Bay damn the gales of November got hands
The gales of November vs Edmund Fitzgerald
SS Edmund Fitzgerald be like: Gordon Lightfoot be like:
SS Edmund Fitzgerald RMS Titanic I served for 17 years and only the full rage of Lake Superior could sink me i hit an iceberg on my first trip
y’all got more dumb Edmund Fitzgerald memes for me
New outfit alert for Gilgamesh
maureen dowd is on her shit again, saying that identity politics cost Dems the election
One more time: identity politics can only exist on the left.
A campaign that degenerated entire groups of people, and is fused into white Christian nationalism, is not engaged in identity politics.
In case anyone's looking for ways to disentangle themselves from Amazon and the Bezos Family of Cursed Subsidiaries (I know I am), my friend @dannycaine.bsky.social wrote a whole book on the topic:
there's no compromise on trans women in sports because opposition to trans women in sports is fundamentally rooted in the idea that trans people are not real. if you crack the door open to bigotry they will bust through.
Hiawatha reporting for duty.
(Thanks for this thread, lots of new Minnesotans for me to follow!)
While ARPA did a lot to boost family incomes, so did the CARES Act passed under Trump. If people say, "under Trump, the government started doing a lot more to help me pay my bills; under Biden, the government stopped doing that" - they are not confused or deluded, they are describing material facts.
One aspect of the economic situation that I think has not gotten enough attention, is how much the withdrawal of pandemic income-support programs worsened people's material conditions.
It’s the New York Times fucking sucking
