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MaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I live in the toxic blast zone of I-94 and experience its awful effects nearly every day. This article is for my neighbors, my cities, and myself. We can and must do so much better with this project.
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Opinion | It’s time to pause the I-94 project
Despite years of community engagement work through the "Rethinking I-94" project, MnDOT plans to rebuild the interstate more or less as it is today. A new vision is needed, Mary Morse Marti writes.
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Our Streets @ourstreetsmn.org · 10/11/2025
"If this rally is any indication, that period will likely be fraught with opposition to advancing the project without first exploring alternatives that do not involve rebuilding the highway." @mndot.mn.gov www.ourstreetsmn.org/2025/11/10/t...
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Twin Cities Boulevard Supporters Swarm MnDOT at Public Meeting
Over 100 Twin Cities Boulevard campaign supporters attended the Minnesota Department of Transportation's (MnDOT) public meeting at the Wilder Foundation in Saint Paul on Thursday, November 6. Supporte...
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Our Streets @ourstreetsmn.org · 06/11/2025
"MnDOT is uninterested in seriously addressing climate change. This is climate defeatism; starting from the assumption that any action that fits the scale of looming climate destruction is too big to pursue." @mfrumholtz.bsky.social @lenasophia.bsky.social www.startribune.com/mndots-clima...
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Tony Damiano @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Published my first Op-Ed w/ Professor Ed Goetz on how the national narrative about Minneapolis misses how zoning and market rate housing are necessary but not sufficient to help lower-income renters 🧵 www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
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Opinion | We’re seeing haves and have-nots with Minneapolis rents
While the housing cost burden is easing overall, it’s not the case for lower-income renters, the authors write.
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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 28/10/2025
There's no such thing as a one man government. We need a Mayor ready to collaborate, build relationships, and ensure Minneapolis is taking a cross jurisdictional approach to solve the City's problems.
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mateo @mfrumholtz.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Reminds me of @equalityalec.bsky.social ‘s phenomenal talk in Minneapolis this week and how media “narrows” our perceptions.
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mateo @mfrumholtz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Lead, soot, toxic air pollution. Northern iron needs to go…
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Why Northern Iron is far from a good neighbor in St. Paul
Health issues continue to be a problem in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood where Northern Iron produces metal castings and machine parts.
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Michael Wilson @mwilsonmpls.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Access without safety is not equity. These lakes are ours together, and they must be safe for everyone!
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Robin for Ward 2 @robin4mpls.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
My office has worked with UMN staff, students, and neighborhood leaders to craft a funding proposal that we presented to the University District Alliance (UDA) for approval. The proposal passed!
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Michael Wilson @mwilsonmpls.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Thank you to everyone who came out to support us and this movement for a park system that puts people first! 🌳 Now, let’s keep going! Link in bio to get involved. #MichaelForParks #ParksForThepeople #MnplsParks
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 15/07/2025
what a shock, this is happening on nicollet mall. these events are part of plan to remove transit from nicollet mall by showing what they can do instead no such care is given to showing how the streetscape where nicollet mall transit would move will be improved bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
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City announces 'Big Honking Truck Parade' to be held in downtown Minneapolis
A parade of big trucks from around the city aims to bring families to Downtown Minneapolis.
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Our Streets @ourstreetsmn.org · 14/07/2025
There's still time to act. Take action to keep the Twin Cities Boulevard vision alive. youtu.be/fepz3l2Tn8Q?...
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Save the Twin Cities Boulevard
YouTube video by Our Streets
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Within months, @mndot.mn.gov wants to remove all freeway removal options from its "Rethinking I-94" process--BEFORE the real environmental & health review 30 orgs, including 15 neighborhood associations, have signed onto this letter asking them to keep freeway removal in the mix You can sign too!
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Better Than 94: Open Letter to Governor Walz and MnDOT Commissioner Daubenberger
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Racket @racketmn.com · 27/03/2025
Racketcast gets timely!
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RacketCast, Ep. 18: Unions Shout WTF Over Guv's WFH Reversal feat. MAPE - Racket
Union honcho Megan Dayton says her membership is outraged.
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Joe Vital @joevital.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Minneapolis can’t seem to do right by East Phillips so the gloves are off again. EPNI will be providing emergency box fan filters for the community free of charge, and it is exploring legal action. If the system won’t protect us (again) we will. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...
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Minneapolis cites demolition crew tearing down Smith Foundry after pollution caught on video
Neighbors near the foundry, which operated for roughly a century in the East Phillips neighborhood until last year, have worried for weeks about dust escaping the site.
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MaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
ICYMI: while people in MSP fight to keep MnDOT from rebuilding I-94 in our already polluted neighborhoods, people in Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center are being muzzled in their efforts to keep @mndot.bsky.social and their consultants from turning 252 into a highway. ***SHAME***
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Rachel Widome @rwidome.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Melissa and I wrote about our research being purged... www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
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Our published work in a government journal curiously disappeared
Several studies for a CDC journal were purged without explanation before a judge’s order restored them. That's unacceptable.
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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The Office of the Legislative Auditor says the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency was out of alignment with federal compliance standards, and should also improve how it handles complaints from the public. By Andrew Hazzard
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New report on Smith Foundry says state should better align pollution evaluation with federal standards
A new report from the Office of the Legislative Auditor on the Smith Foundry pollution says the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency needs to improve its standards and response to public complaints.
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Streets.mn @streets.mn · 04/02/2025
"The highway blighted the neighborhood in ways that led to further destruction in the 1970s, when HUD removed 60-plus other houses. It was only through major neighborhood opposition that every house in the place wasn’t condemned in order to convert the whole area into industrial zoning."
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Lost South St. Anthony Park
South St. Anthony Park’s homes, businesses and even a church disappeared for Highway 280. What was lost, and what still survives?
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Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 31/01/2025
A beautiful new piece in the Star Tribune shows how @MNDOT’s decision on Rethinking 94 is putting our futures in jeopardy. With a once-in-a-generation chance to make lasting positive change, MnDOT is putting our communities at risk. buff.ly/4hxQi3c
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MaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Keep it coming, young Jedi.
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Street Views: Mapping Highways’ Footprint
Our twice-monthly columnist maps the impact and “rethinking” imposed on urban communities during the original freeway boom.
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MaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Getting to the core of MnDOT's depraved highway analysis. They're poisoning us on purpose.
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MnDOT’s climate defeatism: Why won’t they let us consider living more sustainably?
The case for a different kind of road where I-94 runs now.
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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Neighbors complain about pollution from Northern Iron as the St. Paul foundry continues legal fight with the state. Written by Andrew Hazzard.
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‘I want to run away from here.’ Neighbors complain about pollution from St. Paul foundry.
Northern Iron and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency are still engaged in a legal fight over pollution levels. Neighbors say dust and soot from the facility continues.
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Connor Stratton @connormstratton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Read this scathing analysis by @twincitiesdsa.bsky.social, @ourstreetsmn.org, & MN Communities over Highways Coalition of @mndot.bsky.social's plan to cut the boulevard option re: 94: twincitiesdsa.org/2025/01/just... then tell MnDot what you think on friday! wsbeng.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Just Vibes: Evaluating MnDOT’s Rethinking I-94 Alternative Scores
MnDOT is “confident in their analysis”. They shouldn’t be. Report authored by Mateo Frumholtz in collaboration with TCDSA, Our Streets, and the Minnesota Communities over Highways Coalition.  …
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Have you thought to yourself, “I wish I understood how the MN Dept of Transport decided to remove from consideration the seemingly most popular option —freeway removal — and whether their reasoning was abjectly, laughably bad”? Have I got a report for you! twincitiesdsa.org/2025/01/just...
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Just Vibes: Evaluating MnDOT’s Rethinking I-94 Alternative Scores
MnDOT is “confident in their analysis”. They shouldn’t be. Report authored by Mateo Frumholtz in collaboration with TCDSA, Our Streets, and the Minnesota Communities over Highways Coalition.  Just …
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I wrote about bollards. Apparently they're controversial? MOAR BOLLARDS, I say! www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...
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Bollards: oft-forgotten urban pawns but essential to public safety
Tragedy on Bourbon Street brought into focus that simple urban infrastructure like bollards should be part of public safety strategy.
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