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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 · 27/11/2025

I was at the Capitol the day of the Lebsock expulsion vote, and when the vote finally came everyone was focused on him. I turned my camera to her.

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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

Screenshot of a 2002 Star Tribune editorial about transportation

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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 · 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 · 22/05/2025

Wrote about it in the intro for today's @startribune.com politics newsletter

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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 · 28/04/2025

And I took the train to work, obvi

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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 · 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

Saw a Honda Acty in the wilds of uptown Denver yesterday

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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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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Here's a chart of SE corridor light rail ridership I maintain. The E and H lines were starting to recover from the pandemic before slow zone work starting last summer did a number on 'em.

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

RTD’s union is marching on company HQ right now demanding higher wages. Here’s some background: www.cpr.org/2025/01/09/r...

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Picked up this beauty off the side of the road in my neighborhood the other day. It spins and has a lovely warm sound, but then starts warbling as the record plays. It’s also missing a few parts, as you can probably see. Worth tinkering with?

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The bill largely tracks with what we heard from the sponsors before the session started, with a focus on requiring RTD to maximize ridership growth and a few other things. www.cpr.org/2024/07/24/c... But it does dip into governance a bit (the proposed board overhaul sunk last year's bill).

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

RTD's looking to beef up the 16, 73, 153, and NB bus lines starting in May: rtd.iqm2.com/Citizens/Fil...

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

RTD is making more slow zone progress. Here's where things stand now: myemail.constantcontact.com/NEWS-RELEASE...

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I asked DOTI if they are planning to remove a bus lane on 15th, and after initially saying yes they walked that back today. Here’s an email from DOTI Spox Nancy Kuhn:

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This is from a few weeks ago now, but @ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social had an interesting back-and-forth with DEN CEO Phil Washington about the possible expansion of Peña Boulevard: www.cpr.org/2024/12/23/i...

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Handy map from CDOT on how its recommended alternative would change Federal Boulevard for BRT. Not sure if it's new new, but I haven't seen it before.

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Also looks like condo defects legislation will be back again:

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Also, big news for the single-stair case housing nerds. Looks like the Colorado legislature is gonna take that on this session:

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

He also talked about his passenger rail expansion plans and increased transit funding from last session:

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Colorado Gov. Polis talkin' RTD right now in his state of the state address. Expect a reform bill this session:

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Also this cyclist, who’s jazzed for the trail, told me he’s put 95k miles on this bicycle 🤯

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Here’s where it is, and how it fits into their rail network. It came with the N Line ROW purchase 15+ years ago and RTD has no plans for it. But BoCo wants it!

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I asked Polis about whether the state would dial back highway expansions to pay for more transit. He said: "... of course we have projects that include lane expansion. I don't expect that to go away. But you cannot expand lanes and expect to solve these broader enduring challenges ..."

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

OK, but real talk: this would be a tough spot to live. Completely surrounded by arterials and/or the freeway.

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Of note: - The vision doc calls out RTD, saying it has "significantly lagged" its peers and includes this @urbaninstitute.bsky.social graphic - RTD sez it wasn't involved with the doc at all, but a board member tells me she wants the state & RTD to work together on this

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

FYI I asked RTD about this morning's light rail troubles and this was the explanation:

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It's a sign that RTD's bus recruitment and retention strategy seems to be working, and that its finances are in a pretty stable condition all things considered.

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Nugget: RTD is planning to increase bus service 10% in 2025, per their budget proposal. Pg 107 here: rtd.iqm2.com/Citizens/Fil...

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

🙃 www.reddit.com/r/Denver/com...

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Desperately want to play these early 2000s RTD HR videos. web.archive.org/web/20030415...

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Gov Jared Polis' new budget proposal includes $7m to expand RTD's free youth fare pilot project statewide, and another $7m for the ozone season free fare program. drive.google.com/file/d/107s5...

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Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Also picked up this nugget that could be Front Range rail's ace-in-the-hole to avoid another RTD/BSNF/Boulder/Longmont catastrophe.

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