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Cat Tour tickets are now available. Beat the scalpers. Checkout right now. This year's theme is "Fear and Loathing on Hennepin Ave." Please wear an expression that tells fellow tourgoers, "I attended Cat Tour '24 and all I got was no place to park."

The Uptown Cat Fair: A Wedge LIVE Cat Tour | Humanitix

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This North Minneapolis food desert wishes you'd change your mind and stick around. Plenty of people who'd be enthusiastic about helping you find a new location that suits your needs. @AldiUSA

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Snowfall and police settlements put into terms the average person can understand, from the data viz wiz kids of Reddit.

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In the kind of public works disaster that's come to characterize the tenure of director Margaret Anderson Kelliher, a sinkhole opened up on Girard Ave in the Wedge today, swallowing Raggedy Ann.

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Wedge sinkhole gets a man on the street interview from @FOX9 : "I walked up and I was like 'whoa look at that sinkhole, that's a crazy sinkhole,' that's what I thought when I walked up here."

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About 20 minutes ago, neighborhood watch reporting a shootout with multiple victims in Uptown.

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At a press conference this evening, Mayor Frey talks about the importance of getting the facts right, then is unable to answer the question: "Why was Amir Locke referred to as a suspect in MPD's press release?"

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The name "Calhoun Square" is finished. New owners of the Uptown shopping center took down the signage yesterday morning. "A property named for a known racist and champion of slavery has no place in Minneapolis or anywhere in our society."

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Reddit user posted a video of a light rail train hitting a car at 5th and Portland in Minneapolis. Train enters the intersection while the traffic signal was still yellow.

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"As Mayor of Minneapolis, I Saw How White Liberals Block Change"

Opinion | As Mayor of Minneapolis, I Saw How White Liberals Block Change (Published 2020)

But this revolutionary moment is inviting us to be a part of the solution.

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This tree trunk has been carved into a giraffe in the Kenwood neighborhood of Minneapolis.

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I'm starting the "Moved to Minneapolis as an Adult" Caucus. We endorse against candidates who brag about how many generations of their family have lived here or say things like "I went to the same high school as Rondo" instead of having an actual public safety platform.

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Saying goodbye to Uptown's "cursed" restaurant site.

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City of Minneapolis is auctioning off the Kmart sign. #GovDeals

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Minneapolis is back. @LCTourism

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One of our roving reporters ran into the world's biggest transit fan earlier today.

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Police and National Guard presence around the neighborhood this afternoon.

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The last muffin in a Cub foods plastic clamshell container floating on Lake of the Isles at sunset.

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mayor butt head

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Instead of a list of movies now showing, Lagoon Cinema delivers a message for the people living across the street: "You people in the apartments reading this now should come see a movie here." Help keep Uptown alive by seeing a movie in the theater for a change.

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This morning the City Council is expressing profound displeasure that Mayor Frey used his covid-19 emergency powers to appropriate $359,000 for Agape, which is the group that we were all told a few weeks ago had made the decision to clear George Floyd Square.

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I wonder at what point Mayor Frey becomes publicly responsible for the police department he's always, in reality, been responsible for. Instead of people at increasingly distant and unrelated levels of government.

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Montreal has a mechanism to pull plowed snow away from the boulevard/ sidewalk. And people scurry out to move their car for the plow. This is setting an unrealistic standard for snow plowing.

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Minneapolis man's propeller hat twirls during local TV interview.

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The East Isles neighborhood watch cat looks like he hasn't slept for over 24 hours.

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Angela Conley remembers where it all started: waiting in line for public assistance. Says the 4th District seat belongs to those with and without shelter, employed and unemployed, young and old, renters and homeowners. "No matter who you are this seat belongs to you."

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Mayor Frey stuck in post-election downward spiral.

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Wedge LIVE knows what it's like to have people pretend to be outraged by your tweets. That's why the editorial board is standing strongly behind @IlhanMN . We appreciate her courageous voice, especially on foreign policy.

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Lake of the Isles pencil is lit.

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Here's something Minneapolis rarely sees in February.

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I don't know what the perfect formula is for rideshare pay but it's a shame we've let companies whose existence depend on predatory employment schemes become so essential to our transportation system that their threats can set off a regional panic.

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I have diagrammed this year's Minneapolis City Council endorsements. I chose 3 endorsing orgs from the left, 3 from the right (is Tom Hoch an "org"?). Not perfect, but useful in sorting a large number of candidates. Only Andrea Jenkins appears on both charts.

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If you've ever been offended by how full of shit Dai Thao is, Mayor Carter struck a blow for truth and justice yesterday.

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This might be the greatest moment in anti-2040 Plan activism: Man purchases the $925,000 property next door to stop plans for a triplex. He then bulldozes the single-family house to build a pickleball court.

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Impending collapse of the Chipotle driveway ice sheet expected to cause at least ten inches of sea level rise even if humans stopped emitting planet-warming greenhouse gases today.

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Many people in the Twin Cities are afraid that carloads of rural MN residents have already descended on their neighborhoods to start riots.

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Many people in rural Minn are afraid that busloads of Twin Cities demonstrators will descend on their town and start rioting. I'm not kidding.

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In case you missed it, Florida just poached this guy away from Minnesota: "Root, who spends much of his time arguing that federal prosecutors unjustly target CEOs and rich people, is also the moneybags behind the 'Walz Failed' campaign"

Retired Minnesotan Moving to Florida - Racket

Plus a local Foo Fighters angle you haven't considered, a fun idea for downtown Minneapolis, and corporations prove untrustworthy again in today's Flyover

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I'm extremely irritated by the mayor vetoing a full time bus lane the city's public works staff recommended, pretending that recommendation never happened, turning it into parking for 18 hours a day, and taking credit for giving us transit priority.

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This is a big win for our city! Transit priority lanes, an off-street bikeway, big safety upgrades, accommodations for businesses – we achieved everything we set out to do. Thank you to everyone who stayed at the table to build a fantastic layout.

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Remember Uber and Lyft's strategy when they entered Minneapolis was to operate illegally for years. They punch people in the face and wait to see what happens. So a little disruption going the other way seems fair. Let's see what happens.

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"It is disappointing to see the numbers come in from Hennepin County."

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1 year

Maybe I'm the last person to learn this, but Abshir Omar, whose connections to the Feeding Our Future fraud are covered in this story, is Nasri Warsame's campaign manager.

Bernie Sanders’ Iowa political director went on to work for Feeding Our Future • Minnesota Reformer

A former key aide to Bernie Sanders’ Iowa presidential campaign went on to work as a consultant for Feeding our Future, a nonprofit that federal prosecutors say was at the center of the nation’s...

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Judy from St. Paul speaking for us all.

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Garfield Avenue is delivering for today's cat tour. #CatsOfTheWedge #CatsOfTheWhittier

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Personal news. I checked myself into the emergency room on Thursday morning and spent the night in the hospital. I got home Friday afternoon with a month's worth of pills that will apparently cost my insurance company more than I spend on housing. Feeling fine now.

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Moderating the comment section (hiding replies, blocking accounts) didn't become my full time job until I tweeted that North Minneapolis should have grocery stores.

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Turtle using the boat launch at Cedar Lake.

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Overnight we learned that shutting dow one pedestrian bridge, even when extended for five nights, has limited usefulness in combating our annual problem with groups transporting large arsenals of fireworks in their cars and using them as weapons across the city.

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Another sunset over Lake Chipotle, waves lapping at the shore.

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2 years

That this emergency press conference was mobilized to defend his twitter storm is probably weirder than anything he tweeted.

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Happening now- a number of MPLS orgs, including Agape, A Mothers Love and UCMT are speaking in defense of Minneapolis Community Safety Comissioner Cedric Alexander. “I didn’t see anything said wrong,” said Al Flowers of UCMT. @wcco #wcco

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The latest from the situation in Bloomington.

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Thank you Jeopardy champion Eric Ahasic for using your moment of glory to honor the Wedge LIVE cat tour.

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Mary Moriarty, the former chief public defender in Hennepin County, has announced she is running for Hennepin County Attorney. That office is currently held by Mike Freeman, who is retiring.

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This flyer has a more RIP vibe than any fake in memoriam video I've ever made. Well done.

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Mayor Frey: "Not everyone has a car. Not everyone can drive. Not everyone is in the position to drive. We need to also to be thinking about them." There will come a time where we need to apply these words to something other than Uber and Lyft and I will be ready.

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The cat tour was supposed to be today. Moved up a week due to a conflict with the same Muslim holiday that derailed the legislative process at city hall today. Which means cat tour guide Chet Wedgely is more focused on doing his job than the Minneapolis City Council.

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Council Member Chavez: "I'm shocked." There's 3 Muslim council members celebrating EID with their families. Two of the authors are muslim council members. Now we don't even get to have the conversation. This wasn't even the policy, it was the ordinance introduction.

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These PVC badges are only $3.59 on Zazzle. Good luck kicking me out of your next press conference.

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It was wonderful to finally meet Jeopardy champion @EricAhasic who you'll remember as the guy who used up his precious 30 second anecdote on national TV to tell the world about the cat tour in his neighborhood.

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Guys, it was a joke. It was at a business luncheon, in front of an audience of my most powerful friends who resent the idea of working from home, at the expense of a less powerful group. It was hilarious. Get a grip.

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In a shameless pander to the Downtown Council and landlords of big office buildings, Mayor Frey calls workers who do their jobs at home and don't come into the office "losers."

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Weinermobile in Whittier. Garfield Avenue.

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OPINION: I'm voting uncommitted on Tuesday. First, because a Democratic primary is a low stakes way to say "hey there, this whole self defense thing has turned into mass slaughter and starvation, abetted by my govt." And second, because I like getting scolded in the replies.

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Why do people trust Wedge LIVE? We're live, local, and able to tell them all apart.

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4 years

Alternative headline: "Some Minneapolis City Council Members Double Down on Call to Replace a Failing System That is Very Much Still in Effect as I Write This Headline"

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Someone was being a little too sincere with me just now by saying "we're so lucky to live this close to the lakes" and I poured cold water on it by saying "I'm not walking 3 blocks for a lake, I'm going home to eat the carrots in the refrigerator."

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Don't dress for the infrastructure you have, dress for the infrastructure you want.

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Uptown hottest new club, Cowboy Chet's House of Contagion, is closed until further notice due to the city failing to keep our customers safe. This has nothing to do with all the reports of disease.

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For the full interview please expand this image to full size.

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7-5 vote against MPD hiring and retention bonuses as a late addition to the Budget Committee agenda earlier today. Council Member Emily Koski, not usually a Frey critic, pointed to the mayor's rushed process and lack of collaboration with the Council.

Emily Koski speaking against adding MPD bonuses to Budget Committee...

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Seems like many of you are recreating policing with your neighborhood watches. Don't do that. Here's how.

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Governor Walz doesn't understand that we currently have a city charter that takes police policy and budgets out of the hands of elected officials. Can't change that without a vote.

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NEWS: @GovTimWalz comes out against the Minneapolis ballot question about replacing police with a public safety agency. Walz tells me police changes should be done by elected officials, not a referendum that he says has been "distilled down," leaving voters "confused."

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When we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. @LCTourism

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Stage 1: editorial board scolds art sled Stage 2: Don Samuels sues art sled for keeping MPD from hiring charter mandated minimum # of officers Stage 3: Fox News interviews officers in front of the burned out husk of art sled Stage 4: 10s of millions in art sled PTSD payouts

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Unclear if this guy is celebrating the end of Trump or just really happy to live on top of a Famous Dave's.

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The Lyndale Ave S conversion/medians really is the feel good story of the year. ➡️ So many are using the crossings, the need was always there. ➡️ Traffic is fine. You don't actually have to sacrifice dense urban neighborhoods to deadly 4 lane roads.

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I know at times it can seem like every violent crime in the city starts or ends with a car, but the proper course is to just close this important pedestrian and bike bridge. Please join us at the July 3 laser show.

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The Minneapolis 2024 Eclipse bid committee says no amount of free hotel rooms and tax exemptions could have convinced the eclipse to come to Minneapolis. Still too many questions about public safety and the future of rideshare.

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This video editorial is embargoed until Katie Cashman is declared the winner in Ward 7. Do not watch or distribute until that time.

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Literate Nazis better stay the hell out of the Wedge.

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What actually happened is the mayor used his veto to turn a bus lane into parking for 18 hours a day despite a council vote, despite a contrary recommendation from the city's own staff, despite data showing his decision poses a risk to the success of a $60m transit project.

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Last night I thought it was possible Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman would start the day by charging the officer who murdered George Floyd in an attempt to prevent what's happening right now.

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