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Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation underway. They're meeting to set the 2027 maximum property tax levy.

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Council Member Aisha Chughtai says, in terms of safety, autonomous vehicles do not solve what is fundamentally a street infrastructure problem.

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PEARLLS OF WISDOM: "I think you're gonna have waymo less [injuries and sexual harassment] if you're dealing with an autonomous driver." -Council Member Pearll Warren arguing Waymo and other driverless services will be safer.

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Council Member Chowdhury yesterday, asking Mayor Frey to end his new restrictions on city staff attending council meetings and answering questions from council members.

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Congratulations to alpha news on their new maniac correspondent. I think it's a great fit.

becka thompson side by side in YouTube thumbnail with Liz Collin.

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There's an alt universe where the bike lane wasn't built, isn't available for emergency vehicles to park in, and everyone is dead. Thank God for sensible transportation planning. Contrary to what assholes say at community meetings, bike lanes make first responders' jobs easier.

fire truck parked in raised bike lane on Bryant Avenue

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Minnesota health authorities have identified the woman who picked up a rabid bat in downtown Minneapolis and believe she will likely avoid becoming an icon of the MAHA movement.

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the recent spectacles that come to my mind involving department heads at council meetings have been O'Hara and Barnette pleading ignorance to questions about what's going on with the overspending in their departments.

“Is this about having questions answered so that better laws can be passed, or is this about creating a spectacle?” Frey said. “I don't want a circus."

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Twin Cities residents have been warned to expect intermittent cell service outages due to the high volume of moms texting about Rachel Maddow coming to St Paul November 13.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 20/09/2026

Making executive branch officials available to answer questions and follow-ups, in public, is the lowest possible bar for government. Frey says it creates a "spectacle" and a "circus." www.startribune.com/mpd-budget-o...

Deputy City Attorney Dan Abelson told the committee the city charter gives the council the authority to request information and the mayor must provide it, but the charter doesn’t specify what form that information must take. The council can’t compel city departments to give presentations, for example, he said.

The council president, Elliott Payne, said proponents of a strong-mayor system promised more accountability and efficiency, but limiting staffer time at the council won’t accomplish either.

“This is about government structure,” Payne said. “This is about the promise of the executive mayor form of government leading to more efficiency and more accountability and the failure of this to deliver on that.”

The mayor said one way or another, the council will get answers. But sometimes that will come in a written response.

“We are going to give them whatever information that they need, under the law,” Frey said.

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crash on Lyndale Ave earlier today that witnesses describe as "completely inexplicable."

text conversation

person 1: Completely inexplicable crash on lyndale and 22nd

person2: Never. Not on Lyndale Ave.

person 1: Looked like someone leaving the wedge parking lot forgot to turn

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 20/09/2026

Battle cry of every bike lane opponent ever: "we're not against bike lanes"

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 20/09/2026

bus stop brought to you by a pun.

bus stop signage says adopted by "Wedge of Your Seat."

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Horse Responder History: Minneapolis Fire Station 19, now the site of a Buffalo Wild Wings, was one of the last to house horse-drawn equipment, as late as 1922. Minneapolis Police continued to use horses, for no reason other than cowboy fantasies, for another hundred years.

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The city council passed a noise ordinance update banning obnoxious motion sensor alarms, with an amendment that specifies the sound must be audible from within a neighboring residence and that it won't apply to alarms triggered by motion within the property boundaries.

b) It is a violation to intentionally sound or permit the sounding outdoors of any fire, burglar, or civil
defense alarm, siren, whistle, or similar stationary emergency signaling device, except in the following
circumstances:
(1) The existence of an emergency.
(2) Testing the device, not to exceed four (4) minutes in an hourly period, unless approved by the director
when there is no reasonable alternative to exceeding four (4) minutes of testing and the testing is required
by state or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
(3) The sounding of a properly maintained car alarm.
(4) The sounding of a motion-sensor on private property so far as it is:
a. not Not audible from within an enclosed residential dwelling in an urban neighborhood or residential
mixed-use district boundary, or a permitted or conditional residential use.
b. Triggered by motion within the property boundary where the motion-sensing device is located.

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The intrigue surrounding the Derus and Rainville families over many generations is like Dumb Game of Thrones. www.minnpost.com/politics-pol...

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Memorial sign updated at the Cedar Lake mudhole honoring Steve the Mudman, who passed away recently.

Andrew J. Foss and Stephen Vasseur Memorial Mudhole

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Hennepin County Attorney candidates as recipes: the Frazier Cake and Anders Yolk.

strawberry layer of the Frazier cake replaced with cedrick frazier heads.

8 deviled eggs on a tray, but the yolk is replaced with Anders Folk's head.

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Question, and reassuring answer, about "safeguards" and background checks in the search for the next police chief. No mention that our last police chief got through hiring process without anyone uncovering he was a reckless maniac.

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instead of "gee whiz, must be hard when the city council isn't on the side of the police" we should ask, "why have you ordered MPD not to stand for questions in front of the city council, re: $21 million in overspending, at the same time you're requesting an 11% tax increase?"

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BCA says violent crime is down, 3rd degree zany pratfalls on the rise.

banana peel laying on Hennepin avenue sidewalk

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Political scientists call this the "Moriarty effect" — criminals stopped doing crime in 2025 because they know that stupid pro crime Moriarty isn't on the ballot in 2026. they read the news like the rest of us.

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Taylor is full of shit. I had the time of my life at the parking garage blind spot mirror selfie station.

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Make sure you take the Minneapolis 2050 plan survey by September 30. Timeline has the city adopting goals by the end of the year, drafting the plan in 2027, submitting a final plan to the Met Council by the end of 2028. www.surveymonkey.com/r/FXTMXZQ?ut...

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Today marks an escalation in the Minneapolis government structure wars we've been fighting since 2021. Mayor Frey has decided MPD and other departments don't have to show up to answer questions from the city council, so he's directing them not to. They can do it via memo.

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Council Member Palmisano joins the DSA police hater club. Some of her unhinged rhetoric: -"There are a lot of categories... that have gone over budget. -"funds were spent without any consideration of the overall dept budget." -MPD "has lost the trust of this council... and some of the public."

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Leave the mayor's wife and her new children's book out of this.

large "Frey Farms" carboard box container for pumpkins at grocery store with artistic rendering of a blonde woman: "pumpkins make people happy, and that matters." -Sarah Frey

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MPD overages were hidden from the public, hidden from the city council. Now other departments face cuts. Residents suffer unsustainable property tax increases. Fact that we are here is a "failure of government and a failure of democracy."

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Payne: Other city departments manage within their budget. MPD "lacks the basic administrative competency... Perhaps we need to treat this department differently."

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Council President Payne: "we've politicized this conversation to the point that now it has become toxic to provide fiscal oversight of this department, as though you are some unhinged person detached from reality for daring to question how much money is spent on policing."

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Council President Payne is so steamed about unaccountable MPD spending that he's mixing metaphors: "instead of a canary in a coal mine, we have a horse in a barn stall." The council decided not to fund horse police, and yet the spending continues. An "adopted budget means nothing to [MPD]."

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there's a chance that Michael Rainville hears what Vetaw said about MPD today and immediately goes home to angrily tear this poster off the wall of his childhood bedroom.

latrisha vetaw looking up at the clouds with love in her eyes when she sees a floating policeman riding a horse.

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