Conrad Sverkerson is a legendary figure at First Avenue. Conspicuous for his dreadlocks (although more recently sporting a Jewfro), the iconic rock club’s stage manager has spent more than two decades making sure shows go off without a hitch.…
Lisa Goodman has rolled up margins of more than 80 percent in each of the last two election cycles in defending her downtown Minneapolis post. But will a lawsuit that alleges Goodman behaved improperly in seeking to thwart a housing development in her ward damage her re-election plans?
Updated No wonder her challenger implies she’s posh. According to the Hennepin County campaign finance website, Minneapolis City Council Member Elizabeth Glidden’s campaign has $1,671,059 on hand.
I learned about this, appropriately, on Facebook: Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak’s face appears on the front of this month’s Governing magazine. Stifle that yawn — for public officials, it’s the equivalent of getting your picture on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Even if developers of a proposed wood-burning power plant in south Minneapolis can show support from Xcel Energy before a city-imposed March 30 deadline, they face hurdles that may be hard to clear no matter…
This morning the Minneapolis City Council officially accepted an annual report from the city’s Ethical Practices Board that included this item from the board’s 2008 to-do list:…
A downtown Minneapolis City Council member says shoddy work — and possibly ulterior motives — are to blame for a new report’s conclusion that Target Center can’t support the weight…
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