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Politics reporter for the Minnesota Star Tribune. DM me your tips. Signal: nbminor.08

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Green Line light rail extension to Minneapolis' western burbs is finally coming, but a premiere development plan on the line is breaking down. www.startribune.com/hopkins-deve...
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Light rail is finally coming, but a grand Hopkins redevelopment plan is breaking down
Squabbles between the city, the developer and the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District are becoming increasingly caustic.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good morning. I'm sliding over from the @startribune.com's state Capitol beat to cover the Twin Cities' light rail expansion plans and some suburban city halls. First up: A look at the Met Council - Hennepin County Blue Line Extension funding fight www.startribune.com/blue-line-lr...
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Funding feud could derail Blue Line light-rail extension as key decision nears
Hennepin County is keeping the project alive but says it needs the Met Council to chip in to cover construction costs.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ok, Whittier/Lyndale/Kingfield people who bike: How on earth do I get into downtown? The 1st Ave S bike lane just ends at Franklin and so far I've found three bad ways to get across 94 into downtown from there.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Well this would‘ve been a pretty big day on the ol’ beat www.cpr.org/2026/04/08/t...
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State says it has reached tentative agreements that could build Denver to Boulder passenger train
Agreements must be approved by RTD, railroad and others before design phase can begin.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Not good news for Blue Line Extension in Mpls or Federal Blvd BRT in Denver
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It took nearly a year, but I was able to get "Regional Transportation District" into a @startribune.com story www.startribune.com/transit-plan...
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Transit plan could upend Twin Cities’ decades-old suburban system
A bipartisan proposal at the Minnesota Capitol would consolidate a handful of suburban transit agencies that have offered services independent of Metro Transit.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
How about the "FrontRunner" oh wait
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Congrats to Rep. @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social and family, who biked to the hospital last week and came back with baby Hans. Here's what she told me about the ride:
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
My feed is mostly Denver and Minneapolis folks and they may as well be on different planets rn
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Wrote about a train 🥲 www.startribune.com/minnesotas-n...
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Minnesota’s Northstar rail line, which never met its potential or expectations, winds down service
After years of sparse ridership, the last train will run on Sunday, Jan. 4.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
🥲 Denverite still doing the lord’s work, aka filing records requests with DOTI
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Winter also wrote or co-wrote just about every significant transpo bill over the last decade. Funding, speed cameras, etc. She was a giant in that world. What a terrible thing. Rest in peace, Senator.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Had tickets to Neko Case at First Ave and sold ‘em so I could see Sir Paul and I’ve gotta say the man delivered.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Reading up on MN transpo stuff and came across this series from editorial writer Steve Berg the Strib ran back in 2002. Lots of talk of induced demand, freeway blight, etc
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
NEW: Minnesota rebuffs DOJ demand for voter rolls, says feds don’t have legal right to it --> www.startribune.com/minnesota-re...
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Minnesota rejects fed demand for state’s voter rolls
State elections officials say the U.S. Department of Justice doesn’t have a legal right to the state’s voter registration list.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
NEW: Republican bill in Congress would explicitly ban federal funding for train between Twin Cities and Duluth, gut grant program that would fund Blue Line extension www.startribune.com/republican-b...
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Republican bill would ban federal funding for train between Twin Cities and Duluth
It also would gut funding for a federal grant program the Metropolitan Council is counting on for a planned extension of the Blue Line light rail project and a planned bus rapid transit line.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Coming from Denver, where RTD was somewhere around 70-75% of pre-pandemic service and really didn’t want to talk about it, this is remarkable.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Former President Biden paid his respects to Melissa and Mark Hortman today at the Minnesota State Capitol. www.startribune.com/joe-biden-vi...
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
In reading and learning more about the Minnesota State Capitol for return-to-office stories and now security concerns, I was curious how the built environment around the cap has changed over the years. Folks, it's a lot. 1945 at left, current day at right
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Gov Walz with some crispy comments at Rep. Jim Clyburn's South Carolina fish fry last night -->
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In key 2028 state, Tim Walz says Democrats need to ‘beat the hell out of these dictators’
The Minnnesota governor, who says he’s open to a presidential run, also slammed the “corruption and the cruelty that’s happening under Donald Trump’s watch.”
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
A St. Louis Co Commissioner says USDOT staff told him last week that federal money was still coming for the Twin Cities-Duluth train. Then MN's four congressional Republicans asked USDOT to eliminate that $. “I’m extremely disappointed," the commissioner said. www.startribune.com/republicans-...
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Republicans seek to gut federal funding for three Minnesota transit projects
One project, the Northern Lights Express, has bipartisan support, and the Republican advocating for it said he’s disappointed by the delegation’s letter urging elimination of funding.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Moved to Minnesota just in time to see a men's pro sports team embarrass itself in the playoffs. Good to be home.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
TIL that one of the first Buffalo Wild Wings (er, BW3) restaurants was in Steamboat Springs, Colorado www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org?a=d&d=STP198...
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Pour one out for the RTD slow zone debacle, June 3, 2024 - May 27, 2025. denverite.com/2025/05/27/r...
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RTD ends ‘slow zones’ as a crew of 100 completes a year of repairs
Since last spring, the agency’s trains had traveled at just 10 mph for stretches of some routes.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Local newspaper man rides bus, has a good time (no, not me) www.startribune.com/roper-lets-c...
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Roper: Let’s celebrate improvements to the local bus
A lot has changed in the last decade, with more promising upgrades to come.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Rep. Emmer and the rest of the MN Republican Congressional delegation are targeting federal funding for three rail projects here: Northstar, NLX, and Blue Line Extension. Read their letter: emmer.house.gov/_cache/files...
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Me, a reasonably experienced public policy reporter, trying to understand and follow the Minnesota legislature's process of debating and passing the state budget
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
NEW: Minnesota legislators are negotiating their $66 billion budget in private. "It's wrong," one legislator says. www.startribune.com/this-is-wron...
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‘This is wrong’: Minnesota legislators negotiating biggest pieces of $66 billion budget in private
Legislators kicked a Star Tribune reporter out of their Human Services working group meeting on Wednesday after initially allowing them in.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
NEW: Minnesota legislators are eyeing up a $77 million cut to the planned Duluth-Twin Cities Northern Lights Express train as part of a bigger state budget deal. They say they'll still have enough to match federal dollars, but rail advocates are not happy. www.startribune.com/minnesota-le...
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Minnesota legislators eye $77 million cut to planned Duluth train
But they say they’ve left enough state money to still land federal dollars.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Learned today that two important stories I reported last year for @cprnews.bsky.social won an @rtdna.bsky.social Murrow award! This piece: www.cpr.org/2024/07/26/r...
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Records show RTD chief of police, now under investigation, routinely drove agency vehicle over 100 mph
If the speeding was not during an emergency response related to his duties as police chief, it violated RTD’s internal rules and the law.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Colorado’s gonna legalize kei trucks
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
God bless @kevinjbeaty.bsky.social, my favorite journalist
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Thousands of you have met Kevin. The Denver library just confirmed he's great
Kevin Beaty has recently been honored with the 2025 Eleanor Gehres Award for his curiosity, compassion and, of course, skill with a camera.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Good morning! I’m the new guy at @startribune.com where I’ll be covering politics. I grew up in MN/WI but spent the last decade in Denver writing about transportation and other stuff for @cprnews.bsky.social
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Holy smokes that’s a lot of people.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Thank you to Bree and @paulkarolyi.bsky.social for having me on City Cast one last time to talk transpo in Denver 🥲 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Will Denver’s Car Culture Ever Change? Plus, Vision Zero, a ‘Diverging Diamond’ and a Spicy Prediction
Podcast Episode · City Cast Denver · 04/17/2025 · 36m
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
OK, *here's* my last piece for CPR/Denverite. Of note: the Broncos were part of the coalition pushing to keep the on/off ramps at 23rd. And they got what they wanted. denverite.com/2025/04/11/d...
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Denver’s first ‘diverging diamond’ interchange planned for Speer and I-25
Meanwhile, the Broncos get their wish for 23rd Avenue intersection.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New: Colorado bill would increase penalties for careless drivers who kill with their cars --> www.cpr.org/2025/04/10/c...
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Colorado bill would increase penalties for careless drivers who kill with their cars
Supporters say the bill would send a message to drivers that careless driving needs to be taken more seriously.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Hello! A little news from me. Next week is my last at @cprnews.bsky.social. Later this month I will join the @startribune.com's politics team covering the state Capitol. Denver, Colorado and CPR have all been wonderful to me since I arrived more than a decade ago. I'll miss this place dearly.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
RTD and its largest union have reached a tentative deal -- ~15% raise over three years. Still needs to be approved by members and RTD's board. www.cpr.org/2025/04/02/r...
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RTD, driver’s union reach tentative 3-year deal
The union says it secured a bigger raise than what transit authorities were offering.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New: With federal funding looking shaky, Colorado will boost state spending for bus rapid transit projects --> www.cpr.org/2025/04/01/c...
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With federal funding in question, Colorado will boost state spending for bus rapid transit projects
But new state funding won’t make up the difference if the Trump administration slashes federal transit dollars.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Turns out Colfax BRT construction in Denver is actually *good* — in one specific way. denverite.com/2025/03/26/c...
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BRT construction has made Colfax a mess. But early data shows it's safer, too
There have been fewer crashes on Colfax while it's under construction than at any point since the pandemic.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Another new one from me: RTD said it would likely eliminate light rail slow zones by March. It didn't, and now says work will be done by end of May --> www.cpr.org/2025/03/21/r...
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RTD didn't meet its March deadline of eliminating light rail slow zones. It now says work will be done by end of May
The agency says winter weather slowed down repairs.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
RTD light rail crash reports are kept secret. Now, a new law will make them public -->
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RTD light rail crash reports are kept secret. Now, a new law will make them public
Legislators brought the bill after several high-profile derailments in recent years.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Someone egged a cybertruck in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and wrote “nazi” and drew swastikas on it
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
One might call it induced demand www.cpr.org/2025/03/20/t...
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The state lowered prices on the Winter Park ski train. Bookings jumped by 25,000
State officials say their investment and boosted service has been “a real success” and they hope to build on it.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Saw a Honda Acty in the wilds of uptown Denver yesterday
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Sam Brasch @sambrasch.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This could be such a great addition to southwest Denver, but sandwiching an outdoor soccer stadium between two major urban highways seems like an air quality disaster. denverite.com/2025/03/18/d...
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Denver’s women's soccer team unveils location for its future stadium
Coming to Santa Fe Yards in 2028.
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
If this is your illegally parked BMW in Denver’s Cap Hill, know that this King Soops truck driver is really really unhappy with you
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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"Mayday, mayday!" -- I tracked down the ATC audio from yesterday's American Airlines fire at DIA, and put together a quick timeline of what happened and when. www.cpr.org/2025/03/14/h...
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