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Internal records show lawmakers pressed state education officials to restore payments and approve meal sites even as front-line regulators raised concerns about the nonprofit...

In April 2021, state Sen. Omar Fateh, DFL-Minneapolis, met with top Education Department officials to explain why resolving the “reimbursement issue” was critical to “maintaining community trust in these important programs,” according to an April 26, 2021, email from the senator. A day later, the Education Department’s government relations director responded by announcing the department was lifting the payment block “due to the concerns expressed by community organizations” represented by the senator.

“That is wonderful, fantastic news,” Fateh wrote back.

There was a community meeting Monday night at the VFW in Uptown, where residents argued over reconstruction plans for Lyndale Avenue. It was the usual car-versus-bike fight, business owners worried about parking and access, while advocates pushed for bike lanes and bus-friendly streets. The debate blew up on social media before people even got home. But here's the thing I keep coming back to: all of this anger is supposedly about climate change, and yet Minneapolis only produces about 0.05% of global CO2 emissions. Transportation is just 24% of that. So if every single person in the city stopped driving tomorrow, we'd reduce global emissions from roughly 0.05% to 0.038%, a difference of about 0.012%. That's essentially nothing. I'm not saying we should stop making good choices, biking, taking the bus, cutting back where we can all matter personally. But I think we need to be honest about the fact that road design in Minneapolis isn't going to save the planet. The real climate solutions have to come from a much bigger scale. In the meantime, let's stop treating our neighbors like villains over parking spots and bike lanes. We've got real problems to solve, and we'll get there faster if we stop fighting each other over things that barely move the needle.

I did this last summer during the day, people grumbled that I wouldn’t do it at night - so here it is

I don't understand how uptown supposedly improving or getting worse is such a huge deal.

And who is invested in it getting worse. Like, why does an article about a restaurant closing make some rando jizz?

Minneapolis Public Schools again faces a financial crunch in the tens of millions of dollars, while also maintaining a glut of underused buildings that suggest it is time, at last, to downsize.

Yet the state’s third-largest district also is now considering building a brand new $105 million school.

The new school, if approved, would house Anishinabe Academy on the site of the former Cooper Community School in Longfellow. The specialized school offers instruction in Native language and culture in a shared space in south Minneapolis — and long has been promised its own building.

The legislative session is nearing an end, and it appears that the DFL isn’t going to get their ban. Even after a performative “sit in”, of which they utilized their time to make TikTok’s that I’m sure they’ll use for the upcoming midterms.

The fact that it has even gotten this far is beyond me. Campaigning on behalf of children and safety is nonsense. It was never about the children. It was never about safety. There was an amendment proposed by the GOP when the legislation was introduced (SF 4067) in the senate to separate the funding for mental health and school safety funding and remove the bans from the bill.

Every single DFL member voted it down.

Mark my words, this entire saga is going to cost them dearly in the midterms.

I'm an independent voter although I have traditionally leaned left. Never voted for Trump any of the 3 times. I fell into to the “vote blue no matter who” approach during the last election.

But after the recent events that have taken place in Minnesota, I cannot in good conscience vote for any candidate that votes to strip my constitutional rights. I say this without even discussing the hypocrisy from the party who encourages its people to demonstrate in the streets to defend from a “facist takeover”, only to vote to ban the tools required to prevent tyrannical government.

I'm sure folks will pipe in and call me a facist, bootlicker, racist, or nazi. But any elected official who has voted in favor of stripping away my 2nd amendment rights (and 4th based on the original bill) has lost my vote.

TLDR: Politicians are hypocrites, and voting for the lesser of 2 evils is still voting for evil.