Among the widely trumpeted 8 billion RNC-related media impressions of the Twin Cities were a few distinctly negative impressions created by a Minneapolis Convention Center event called CivicFest. It was meant to draw 150,000 media representatives, schoolchildren, RNC…
The mayor had said so, and if you closed your eyes the morning after the RNC and let the intoxicating hint of normalcy in the air wash away memories of the week, everything did seem like it might be all…
Minneapolis City Council Members Gary Schiff and Cam Gordon issued a call this afternoon for an independent investigation of police actions during the Republican National Convention (RNC). Read their full statement below the jump.
Today’s call follows two…
The Minneapolis School Board is poised to grant a low-bid, high-six-figures contract for liaison police services to the Minneapolis Police Department. It means a switch from the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s…
The Minneapolis park board’s conflicting corporate obligations put vendors at its bike tour event in an impossible catch-22. Under the parks’ current beverage contract, vendors at Minneapolis parks can serve only Coke-brand Dasani water—but the bike event’s sponsorship…
People in town for the Republican National Convention will be able to get event information, tourist tips, traffic updates and travel directions by calling Minneapolis’s 311 service on their cell phones, if…
It turns out that 4 a.m. won’t be the last call after all at most places during the Republican National Convention—notwithstanding the still-vivid word-image (courtesy St. Paul City Council Member Dave Thune) of over-imbibed GOP lobbyists’ late-night spew…
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board appears to have strayed from its obligations under a lucrative but restrictive contract with Coca-Cola.
The park board signed the $440,000 contract with Coke (pdf) five years ago, promising to sell…
Eight months into a merger that was sold as a bailout of Minneapolis’ library system, a budget hole threatens to swallow Hennepin County’s bookmobile and…
No one knows how many protesters will descend on the Twin Cities for the Republican convention—the most common estimate is in the range of 50,000 to 100,000—but one thing’s for sure: Many if not most of them will have no…
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