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Racket @racketmn.com · 19/09/2026
Review: Older, wiser, louder, and no, not always sad, the singer-songwriter enraptured a young crowd on her biggest tour yet.
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Phoebe Bridgers’ Past Looks Brighter Than Ever at Grand Casino Arena - Racket
Older, wiser, louder, and no, not always sad, the singer-songwriter enraptured a young crowd on her biggest tour yet.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 04/09/2026
Come visit us at Dan Patch Park at the State Fair for MPR’s Made of Minnesota Day and tell @samstroozas.bsky.social why you love MPR!
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Have you heard about the new art installation at the corner of Fry Street and Spruce Tree Drive? There’s a wind phone for people to share their grief in. I’m working on an article about it for @mprnews.org and would love to accompany you to it for my radio story. Email sstroozas@mpr.org ☎️
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Anika Besst @anikabesst.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A fan at Phee's home return: “She should have been MVP last year,” Ishabor Makvandi said. “She is like the epitome of a role model for this state, in my opinion. She’s very socially conscious,” he said. “We're pretty excited to have her receive our welcome, whatnot. It's like she is the Lynx.”
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Queen Phee’s return: ‘The epitome of a role model for this state’
Napheesa Collier was back on her home court after an ankle injury and surgery caused her to miss the first half of the season.
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Anika Besst @anikabesst.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"When I picture coming back it is being in Target on my home court, surrounded by my teammates," Napheesa Collier said Monday. "There's a reason why we say we have the best fans in the world. We really do. They support us through everything."
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'Queen Phee' reigns again: The return of Lynx star Napheesa Collier
Napheesa Collier was sidelined by a left ankle injury sustained in a semifinals game last season against the Phoenix Mercury. She had double ankle surgery during the WNBA offseason.
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Anika Besst @anikabesst.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I spoke too soon. The Lynx has MORE news. Just a day after being named a starter for the All-Star game, Olivia Miles was named the Kia WNBA Rookie of the Month for the second month in a row. Head coach Cheryl Reeve was also named WNBA Coach of the Month for June. 🏀
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Lynx's Miles wins second consecutive Rookie of the Month, Reeve named Coach of the Month
The Minnesota Lynx had an exciting mid-season week of accolades. Just a day after being named a starter for the All-Star game, Olivia Miles was named the Kia WNBA Rookie of the Month for the second mo...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 27/06/2026
MPR News Radio Camp, in partnership with ThreeSixty Journalism, gave students a chance to report from the Special Olympics USA Games in the Twin Cities, interviewing athletes, leaders and fans and producing their own audio stories.
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MPR News Radio Camp reports on Special Olympics USA Games
Radio Camp is an annual weeklong teaching event hosted by MPR with partner ThreeSixty Journalism.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I’m so proud of @anikabesst.bsky.social!! She noticed a big gap in our newsroom — no one is dedicated to women’s sports coverage. She’s worked very hard to make MPR a better place for women’s sports fans 💜😌 follow along!
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Aww so cute!!
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 26/06/2026
Cheryl Reeve's first WNBA coaching job was with the Charlotte Sting in 2001. She joined the Minnesota Lynx in 2009 and 17 years later, she is being inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.
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‘She lives the game’: The road that led Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve to the Hall of Fame
Ahead of Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve being inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame Saturday, current and former players and mentors praise her drive, passion, leadership and frien...
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Radio story airs at 4:20 and 5:50 on @mprnews.org. 🦋
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Minneapolis City Council votes to repeal ban on adult bathhouses, sex venues
Bathhouses were banned in the city in 1988 during the AIDS epidemic. The Minneapolis City Council voted on Thursday to repeal the ban. It now heads to Mayor Jacob Frey.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Schaffer and Warren. Osman abstained and Whiting was absent.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
BREAKING: The adult bathhouse and sex venues ban in Minneapolis has been repealed. Members voted 9-2 in favor, with one member abstaining and one being absent. “Today is the first step and it will not be the last,” said Council member Jason Chavez.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 17/06/2026
Should’ve known: MPR did this story two months ago! www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0... Deputy Mayor‘s first name beginning with “Erv” is visible in one of the clips.
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Adult bathhouses were a part of Minneapolis nightlife. Then police and panic pushed them out
Forty years after the adult bathhouse ban was passed, the city council is considering reversing it. A myriad of components led to the ban, but for several decades, public sexual spaces in Minneapolis ...
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We were a little ahead of the curve 😉 thanks for sharing!!
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Dozens spoke in favor of repealing the adult bathhouse ban during city council hearings this week in Minneapolis. They focused on public health, tourism and city history. After the hearing, Mayor Frey confirmed to MPR he’s in favor of repealing the ban, but says it’s not a top priority for him.
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Dozens speak in favor of repealing Minneapolis ban on adult bathhouses, sex venues
More than 30 people who spoke at public hearings Tuesday and Wednesday supported ordinances that would overturn a longtime ban on bathhouses and sex venues. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey also voiced su...
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Full story early tmrw morning for @mprnews.org ✨
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Over 30 people spoke at city hall today in favor of repealing the Minneapolis bathhouse ban. Council chambers were full and 50 people were in the overflow room, with a dozen waiting in the hallway. Buttons and posters were handed out. The ordinance advanced & the full council will vote next week.
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Jay Boller @jayboller.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Five years ago four unemployed journalists started this company with $4,000 combined dollars—pretty cool, if you ask me!
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Racket Racks Up 8 Trophies at the 2026 Local Journalism Awards - Racket
In today's Flyover news roundup? All we're rounding up is Racket's performance at Tuesday's Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One Awards ceremony.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 17/06/2026
Congratulations to the newsroom for taking home 26 awards at the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One Awards!! Thank you to our members and readers for supporting local news and public media. ❤️
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
thank you for sharing my article!!
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Yessss!!!!!! Local alt media 4ever 🫶🏻
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Racket @racketmn.com · 17/06/2026
Your buds at Racket took home eight awards from the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists tonight, including three first-place W’s! Thanks to everyone who read and shared our stories and supported our work over the last year. We just love ya.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Six of the 13 Minneapolis City Council members co-sponsored the proposed ordinances. A few others have signaled opposition, like council members Elizabeth Shaffer and Linea Palmisano. Both hearings take place at 1:30pm. I’ll have a story Thursday morning breaking it down for you. 📝
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
According to city documents, the ordinances being considered would not automatically legalize venues like bathhouses where people can have sex, but they would lay the groundwork so the city could develop a regulatory framework to allow sex venues in the future.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The hearing on Tuesday is for license and business regulations for adult bathhouses and sex venues and rules on how they can be designed. Wednesday’s is for health and sanitation, the ordinance that holds the ban. And will remove what advocates call stigmatizing language.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🧵 The Minneapolis City Council is hosting two public hearings this week as they consider repealing the longstanding adult bathhouse ban. Currently, the ban prohibits any private businesses from allowing “high-risk sexual conduct” on the premises.
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Minneapolis City Council to hear public comments on effort to repeal adult bathhouse ban
The council will host two public hearings this week concerning ordinances that would repeal the adult bathhouse ban. They were banned in 1988 during the peak of the AIDS epidemic, but advocates say af...
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Feel free to have them DM me or email sstroozas@mpr.org !
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 18/05/2026
The Minnesota State Fair starts in 100 days! MPR loves to cover the fair but we wanted to ask — what do YOU want to see us write about this year? A hidden gem? Your favorite weird exhibit? Comment below or email us at tell@mpr.org.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
changed my whole life bc i saw an ad on campus for the student newspaper and joined. nine years later the uw la crosse communication studies department honored me with an alumni award! i am so lucky to tell stories for a living. ❤️
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
an all woman student newsroom?? sign me up. LOVE this story by @jcollins.bsky.social 🫡
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thousands of immigrants were detained in Minnesota this winter. Many detainees left behind families that depended on them, who are now asking themselves whether they can safely stay, or even safely leave. (1) share.google/LU759CxFdYgG...
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‘The damage was already done’: Minnesota immigrant families struggle after ICE deportations
The most recent data shows that about half of the 3,700 immigrants detained by federal agents during the ICE surge have been deported. Many detainees left behind families that depended on them, who ar...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 24/04/2026
A group of Minnesota lawmakers, law enforcement and former students are banding together to prevent and penalize predatory grooming in K-12 schools. Some, including a key lawmaker, are survivors of abuse by teachers.
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‘We all know someone’: At the Capitol, a bipartisan effort to end predatory grooming
A group of Minnesota lawmakers, law enforcement and former students are banding together to prevent and penalize predatory grooming in K-12 schools. Some, including a key lawmaker, are survivors of ab...
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Thank you 💜
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Jazzmine @jazzmineabriana.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“I would always try to play football with my friends, but when I was younger, it used to be considered a man’s sport, so I could never play, so now playing flag football, I feel like I’m a role model for younger girls who have the same aspirations.” varsity.startribune.com/minnesota-vi...
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Video: Girls flag football players, Vikings advocate for fast-growing sport
At Content Capture Day hosted by the Vikings at TCO Performance Center, high school athletes across the Twin Cities gathered to create content to promote the upcoming season.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Uhhh ok back in her writing era? Love 🤭
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Nearly 40 years later, the current council could reverse this ban. As treatment for HIV has changed, advocates want the code to as well. & they say Minneapolis is actually an outlier as many cities reversed their bans already or never closed bathhouses to begin with. 👩🏻‍💻
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The health commissioner did a study in 1977 proving that closing the bathhouses would do nothing. They were a place people learned about safe sex and the sex would continue, just in less safe environments. In 1988 the council passed an ordinance to ban them 11-0.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
While MPD got a more liberal chief in 1980 — the damage was done. Bathhouses were now in the main stream as everyone debated their existence. The first positive HIV test was in 1982, and then researchers tell me officials used bathhouses as a scapegoat to the AIDS crisis.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Earlier that year, there was a more ~ unofficial raid ~ the head of vice, deputy mayor and a buisness man were out drinking and went to Big Daddy’s Bathhouse. They dragged 30 people out of bed, screaming homophobic remarks. Witnesses say the three men were so drunk they could barely walk.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
On Dec. 1, 1979 the MPD vice team conducted the largest bathhouse raid in history. Over 100 people were ticketed and 9 were arrested with the then-felony of sodomy. Police reports from that night show MPD relied on humiliation and fear. Nine years later, all the bathhouses would be closed.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🧵 Everyone’s talking about the bathhouse ban in Minneapolis right now — but why did they actually close? Sources say bc increased police surveillance, a fear of AIDS and gentrification. In this deep dive I talk to all the key players about how closing them likely did more harm than good.
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Adult bathhouses were a part of Minneapolis nightlife. Then police and panic pushed them out
Forty years after the adult bathhouse ban was passed, the city council is considering reversing it. A myriad of components led to the ban, but for several decades, public sexual spaces in Minneapolis ...
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I’ll be on @mprnews.org morning edition Wednesday at 7:20am talking about my big story that’s coming out — the history of adult bathhouses in Minneapolis, tune in! 📻
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Thank you!!!! 🫶🏻
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
this is a shameless plug to read my bathhouse article 🫶🏻 i will have part 2 this week 🤝 www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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As Minneapolis reconsiders its adult bathhouse ban, here’s what to know about the history
In the 1970s and 1980s, the bathhouse scene in Minneapolis was plentiful. Some activists say it’s time to update outdated language in a 1988 ordinance banning them and create an opportunity to bring them back.
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
for the last year and a half i’ve been following the bathhouse ban for mpr 🔎 in 1988 minneapolis made adult bathhouses illegal. the rise of hiv cases made people worried, but the queer community also lost institutions because of this fear. nearly forty years later, the city may change the ordinance.
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As Minneapolis reconsiders the adult bathhouse ban, here’s what to know about the history
In the 1970s and 1980s, the bathhouse scene in Minneapolis was plentiful. Some activists say it’s time to update outdated language in the 1988 ordinance banning them and create an opportunity to bring...
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Drone sightings drove surveillance fears as ICE surged in Minnesota
Some Minneapolis residents who took to the streets to document U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids believe federal authorities used drones to record and intimidate them. Despite laws govern...
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
i am working on a story about the effects of the ice surge in MN on repro health and sexual health. are you a clinician who has been worried about your patients? are you someone in hiding that has missed prenatal meds, HIV treatment, etc? are you helping distribute items? dm or 📧 sstroozas@mpr.org
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
have you or someone you know had to find care for your pet after being detained by ICE? are you in hiding and worried about vet care? i am working on a story about what happens to pets during the ICE surge. DM me or email sstroozas@mpr.org
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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
It was a Christmas gift from Maurices! And it is very soft.
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