First Spruce Tree embroidery I've seen.
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First Spruce Tree embroidery I've seen.
Hadn't seen this one.
Hey! Can you point me to the error? I didn’t do a lot of St. Paul elections this year, but if I did get something wrong, I’d want to fix it.
Signed, planning my turkey trot layers for tomorrow. I wish my ski friends were running with me because, in extreme upper Midwestern fashion, we always discuss what layers we're wearing before races.
OK all you turkey trotters, here's layering 101, from the archives. We could all use the reminder.
Also, PSA, don't wear down if you're gonna be sweating because the fabric encasing down doesn't breathe and you will be damp. It's just not the vibe.
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A few graphics showing how climate change is affecting the state. More in the story!
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Cow Statue Downtown for Dairy Month (1939)
Source: Hennepin County Library
A 12-foot statue of Minnie J. the dairy cow, posing with a milk-bottle scepter atop a 6-foot pedestal with a sign recommending the use of more dairy products, will be moved to the corner of 7th Street and Nicollet ...
Metro Transit boosts uniformed presence on light-rail trains. Safety issues, real or perceived, have proven to be a hurdle in drawing people back to public transit.
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A remembrance of the West St. Paul Playland (outdoor McDonald's playspace?!) from the West St. Paul Reader:
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This also went with the story. Me and now-Strib newsroom developer Tom Nehil in the newsroom, Nov. 10, 2021.
This is what that chart should look like. Gales of November, indeed:
Also this is so wild.
All my old MinnPost charts broke in a website changeover, but if you want to know if the gales of November really came early, here's the story for you from the archives:
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Not sure! This was probably 40 years ago
My mom, a huge MN history nerd who is responsible for me being a huge MN history nerd, got this set at a Two Harbors antique store years ago. I didn’t know she had them ‘til I helped her dust the plate cabinet last year.
Yes, for chicken paprikash, the recipe from the Fitz according to the Great Lakes cookbook. I also added mustard. It’s good!
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Brb only using Great Lakes freighter dinnerware today and tomorrow.
n S Having grown up in north Minneapolis but now living near downtown St. Paul, Millett has been gathering evidence his whole life. He prefers his home of the last five decades. "When I started at the Pioneer Press in 1972, I think I had been to downtown St. Paul two or three times in my whole life. My parents didn't have a car," said Millett, who recalls that it could be an hourlong trip from north Minneapolis to downtown St. Paul in the days before the freeway connected the cities. "I'd been there for high school basketball tournaments but I knew nothing about St. Paul when I came for the interview. It seemed so exotic." He's heard all of the generalizations about the twins but said, "The one truth I do believe is that St. Paul is a big small town and Minneapolis is a small big city." From a review/article/interview on Millett's new book in today's The Minnesota Star Tribune, written by Chris Hewitt.
This encapsulates something about the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. It is author and former St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter Larry Millett, speaking on how far apart the Twin Cities were, psychologically and practically, pre-interstate.
(It's a great poster and I have a copy in my office now)
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Growing up, the place we stayed on Lake Superior every spring had a Lake Superior shipwrecks poster.
I'd study it and fall asleep listening to waves crashing, imagining ghost ships out there on those big, scary waves. The song captures that scary power of the lake so well.
Photographer Alex Kormann and I went Up North last week to talk to people along Lake Superior about why "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" still resonates so much, especially this time of year.
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That no longer has any charts 😭
How'd St. Paul get mayor results so fast? And why did Minneapolitans have to wait another 12 hours to find out who won the mayor's race?
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Thanks!
Her clinched a victory w/RCV tabulation after trailing Carter in first-round votes.
Fateh supporters in Minneapolis are hoping he can do the same. He's behind Frey by 10 pts in 1st round.
Just talked to a U of Chicago prof who says trailing candidate wins in ~1/10 RCV races.
How did Rep. Kaohly Her become St. Paul's next mayor?
With charts. (They let me do the nerd thing again.)
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Anyway, follow our live feed for updates from the Strib team out in the field. We'll start posting stuff around noon.
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An interesting dynamic here is that Rep. Her represents precincts in some of these high-turnout wards in the House. Those areas generally voted for Mayor Carter at high rates in the past. Will those voters stick with him or switch to an also-familiar candidate?
I'm talking to voters in St. Paul today. Started at Linwood Rec.
For those who want to Kornacki along at home today/night, here are the results for 2017+2021 by ward, also has calculated share of vote for Carter in those races.
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It kind of has East Egg/West Egg vibes. But it's South Leg. Imagine getting to say you live in South Leg.
