@jmerkovich.bsky.social
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Things are tough rn, but I know that we support us. I am going to highlight a local group doing good every day until #GTMD2025.
First off - GMCC! An interfaith organization that works with youth and the unhoused, and provides meals to our neighbors- and so much more.
www.givemn.org/organization...
First off - GMCC! An interfaith organization that works with youth and the unhoused, and provides meals to our neighbors- and so much more.
www.givemn.org/organization...
Support GMCC (Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches) on GiveMN
Our Origin StoryGMCC (founded as Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches) was founded in 1905 as a faith-based initiative to serve the community. For 119 years, we have fulfilled our mission of "uniti...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Things are tough rn, but I know that we support us. I am going to highlight a local group doing good every day until #GTMD2025.
First off - GMCC! An interfaith organization that works with youth and the unhoused, and provides meals to our neighbors- and so much more.
www.givemn.org/organization...
First off - GMCC! An interfaith organization that works with youth and the unhoused, and provides meals to our neighbors- and so much more.
www.givemn.org/organization...
Friends, the bathroom at Al’s Breakfast is…wild.
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Friends, the bathroom at Al’s Breakfast is…wild.
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The polls are officially open, Minneapolis!
Today you can choose a different course for our city. You can choose a mayor who cares as much about your city and your neighbors as I know you do.
We deserve better, Minneapolis. Rank me first when you vote today so we can do better – together.
Today you can choose a different course for our city. You can choose a mayor who cares as much about your city and your neighbors as I know you do.
We deserve better, Minneapolis. Rank me first when you vote today so we can do better – together.
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The polls are officially open, Minneapolis!
Today you can choose a different course for our city. You can choose a mayor who cares as much about your city and your neighbors as I know you do.
We deserve better, Minneapolis. Rank me first when you vote today so we can do better – together.
Today you can choose a different course for our city. You can choose a mayor who cares as much about your city and your neighbors as I know you do.
We deserve better, Minneapolis. Rank me first when you vote today so we can do better – together.
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It is outrageous that the United States spends more on its military than the next 9 countries combined.
Imagine if we stopped spending half of the nearly $1 trillion Pentagon budget and invested it in healthcare, education, and housing instead.
Imagine if we stopped spending half of the nearly $1 trillion Pentagon budget and invested it in healthcare, education, and housing instead.
October 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It is outrageous that the United States spends more on its military than the next 9 countries combined.
Imagine if we stopped spending half of the nearly $1 trillion Pentagon budget and invested it in healthcare, education, and housing instead.
Imagine if we stopped spending half of the nearly $1 trillion Pentagon budget and invested it in healthcare, education, and housing instead.
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We're proud to have been a leading member of the coalition that supported this bill.
It's time to roll it out statewide.
It's time to roll it out statewide.
Minneapolis is launching a pilot of traffic safety cameras on Sept. 30. Cameras enforcing speed limits will begin issuing warnings starting at five locations across Minneapolis. Learn more about the pilot program: https://direc.to/nLY2
September 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We're proud to have been a leading member of the coalition that supported this bill.
It's time to roll it out statewide.
It's time to roll it out statewide.
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This is your reminder from the glorious past that Lyndale Avenue had a major streetcar line, meaning there's plenty of ROW for @hennepin.bsky.social @hennepindebbie.bsky.social to do the right thing. The difference between the bad and good design is just 8 parking spaces along the entire corridor.
September 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is your reminder from the glorious past that Lyndale Avenue had a major streetcar line, meaning there's plenty of ROW for @hennepin.bsky.social @hennepindebbie.bsky.social to do the right thing. The difference between the bad and good design is just 8 parking spaces along the entire corridor.
I was extremely offline yesterday and saw the attack on the unhoused here in Minneapolis on TikTok.
Today:
CNN: Nothing
NBCNews: Nothing
Startribune: NOTHING
Absolutely putrid media environment that is only going to worsen.
When is the next march?
Today:
CNN: Nothing
NBCNews: Nothing
Startribune: NOTHING
Absolutely putrid media environment that is only going to worsen.
When is the next march?
September 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I was extremely offline yesterday and saw the attack on the unhoused here in Minneapolis on TikTok.
Today:
CNN: Nothing
NBCNews: Nothing
Startribune: NOTHING
Absolutely putrid media environment that is only going to worsen.
When is the next march?
Today:
CNN: Nothing
NBCNews: Nothing
Startribune: NOTHING
Absolutely putrid media environment that is only going to worsen.
When is the next march?
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Election 2025: Minneapolis Mayor Race (the four contenders).
My ranking:
(1) DeWayne Davis (2) Omar Fateh (3) Jazz Hampton
naomikritzer.com/2025/09/18/e...
My ranking:
(1) DeWayne Davis (2) Omar Fateh (3) Jazz Hampton
naomikritzer.com/2025/09/18/e...
Election 2025: Minneapolis Mayoral Race (the four contenders)
There are fifteen people running for Minneapolis mayor. You only have to worry about four of them, and this post will talk about those four. If you want to know more about all the others, that is i…
naomikritzer.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Election 2025: Minneapolis Mayor Race (the four contenders).
My ranking:
(1) DeWayne Davis (2) Omar Fateh (3) Jazz Hampton
naomikritzer.com/2025/09/18/e...
My ranking:
(1) DeWayne Davis (2) Omar Fateh (3) Jazz Hampton
naomikritzer.com/2025/09/18/e...
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I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
September 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
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"Once at the fair, everything is accessible by foot. The entire experience is designed around pedestrian movement and access that is comfortable and appealing (although often crowded, especially if you’re waiting in line at Sweet Martha’s Cookies or another beloved vendor)."
Street Views: The Great Multi-Modal Get-Together
The Minnesota State Fair’s investment in options to “get there” by transit and biking sets a year-round example for the metro.
streets.mn
August 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Once at the fair, everything is accessible by foot. The entire experience is designed around pedestrian movement and access that is comfortable and appealing (although often crowded, especially if you’re waiting in line at Sweet Martha’s Cookies or another beloved vendor)."
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I just want lawmakers at every level to pass gun control laws. I don't care if you think they'll survive the Supreme Court's tests. They won't. That's a game you cannot win. Who cares? You have a moral obligation to try; anything less is cowardice. There are honorable defeats.
August 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I just want lawmakers at every level to pass gun control laws. I don't care if you think they'll survive the Supreme Court's tests. They won't. That's a game you cannot win. Who cares? You have a moral obligation to try; anything less is cowardice. There are honorable defeats.
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There's a vigil tonight at 8pm, Lynnhurst Park, for victims of the Annunciation shooting. It's being organized by Moms Demand Action and Protect MN. Please share to your networks. #minneapolis #twincities #mpls
August 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
There's a vigil tonight at 8pm, Lynnhurst Park, for victims of the Annunciation shooting. It's being organized by Moms Demand Action and Protect MN. Please share to your networks. #minneapolis #twincities #mpls
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens — theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
PARKLAND, FL—In the hours following a violent rampage in Florida in which a lone attacker killed 17 individuals and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where thi...
theonion.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens — theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
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Twin Cities urbanists, we've all been sleeping on the pending sale of the UofM's golf course in Falcon Heights. It's bigger than the Ford plant in StP.
Cc: @moreneighbors.org, @sustainstpaul.bsky.social
Cc: @moreneighbors.org, @sustainstpaul.bsky.social
University of Minnesota to sell historic Les Bolstad Golf Course
While the Gophers men's and women's golf teams don't host meets there, the cross country teams still use the course for races.
www.kare11.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Twin Cities urbanists, we've all been sleeping on the pending sale of the UofM's golf course in Falcon Heights. It's bigger than the Ford plant in StP.
Cc: @moreneighbors.org, @sustainstpaul.bsky.social
Cc: @moreneighbors.org, @sustainstpaul.bsky.social
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If it fits, I sits.
If drivers have such a hard time understanding that the sidewalk can’t be parked on, maybe we need to remove more driveways that intersect sidewalks.
This driver’s choice pushes pedestrians into one of the city’s highest injury streets (Nicollet).
If drivers have such a hard time understanding that the sidewalk can’t be parked on, maybe we need to remove more driveways that intersect sidewalks.
This driver’s choice pushes pedestrians into one of the city’s highest injury streets (Nicollet).
August 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
If it fits, I sits.
If drivers have such a hard time understanding that the sidewalk can’t be parked on, maybe we need to remove more driveways that intersect sidewalks.
This driver’s choice pushes pedestrians into one of the city’s highest injury streets (Nicollet).
If drivers have such a hard time understanding that the sidewalk can’t be parked on, maybe we need to remove more driveways that intersect sidewalks.
This driver’s choice pushes pedestrians into one of the city’s highest injury streets (Nicollet).
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To put this in a local context, I-94 thru the core of the Twin Cities only moves ~167k private cars/day. Average pax/car is ~1.5 giving us ~250k ppl/day.
That’s just 15k more than what the CTA Red Line was carrying per day in 2013.
That’s just 15k more than what the CTA Red Line was carrying per day in 2013.
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars.
Even if those cars are electric.
And then there’s all the parking.
OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc.
Choices.
Simple.
Even if those cars are electric.
And then there’s all the parking.
OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc.
Choices.
Simple.
August 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
To put this in a local context, I-94 thru the core of the Twin Cities only moves ~167k private cars/day. Average pax/car is ~1.5 giving us ~250k ppl/day.
That’s just 15k more than what the CTA Red Line was carrying per day in 2013.
That’s just 15k more than what the CTA Red Line was carrying per day in 2013.
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Traffic engineers: You can't put fixed objects next to a street, drivers might get injured if they leave the roadway and hit them.
Also traffic engineers: Enjoy your new bike path!
We need a major revision of urban-related civil engineering, from education to implementation, in the US.
Also traffic engineers: Enjoy your new bike path!
We need a major revision of urban-related civil engineering, from education to implementation, in the US.
July 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Traffic engineers: You can't put fixed objects next to a street, drivers might get injured if they leave the roadway and hit them.
Also traffic engineers: Enjoy your new bike path!
We need a major revision of urban-related civil engineering, from education to implementation, in the US.
Also traffic engineers: Enjoy your new bike path!
We need a major revision of urban-related civil engineering, from education to implementation, in the US.
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Does your local park look like this?
If not, it’s probably because:
1) zoning created large distances between housing & parks.
2) the streets between housing & parks are unsafe for biking.
3) there isn’t any/enough bike parking.
1/2
If not, it’s probably because:
1) zoning created large distances between housing & parks.
2) the streets between housing & parks are unsafe for biking.
3) there isn’t any/enough bike parking.
1/2
June 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Does your local park look like this?
If not, it’s probably because:
1) zoning created large distances between housing & parks.
2) the streets between housing & parks are unsafe for biking.
3) there isn’t any/enough bike parking.
1/2
If not, it’s probably because:
1) zoning created large distances between housing & parks.
2) the streets between housing & parks are unsafe for biking.
3) there isn’t any/enough bike parking.
1/2
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In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
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Summit Avenue 1902, before it was widened for cars. If the Save Our Summit group authentically cared about historic preservation and neighborhood character, they would be strongly advocating for a return to this. Unfortunately, they can't admit to that because all they really want is parking.
June 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Summit Avenue 1902, before it was widened for cars. If the Save Our Summit group authentically cared about historic preservation and neighborhood character, they would be strongly advocating for a return to this. Unfortunately, they can't admit to that because all they really want is parking.
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This median sign (between a general traffic lane & protected bikelane) has been hit *at least* a dozen times since it was installed 2.5 years ago.
What does that tell you about the safety of this intersection - for peds, bicyclists and drivers?
What does that tell you about the safety of this intersection - for peds, bicyclists and drivers?
June 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This median sign (between a general traffic lane & protected bikelane) has been hit *at least* a dozen times since it was installed 2.5 years ago.
What does that tell you about the safety of this intersection - for peds, bicyclists and drivers?
What does that tell you about the safety of this intersection - for peds, bicyclists and drivers?
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Our streets should look like this more often.
June 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Our streets should look like this more often.
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china’s investment in electric is leaving us in the dust. they did exactly what the US could have: make it more attractive to buy electric than not, fund infrastructure, spur massive innovation
BYD is leading the battery advancements we need: sodium instead of lithium! 20 min charging!
BYD is leading the battery advancements we need: sodium instead of lithium! 20 min charging!
Chinese car group BYD has sold more electric vehicles in Europe than Tesla for the first time www.ft.com/content/53ec...
May 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
china’s investment in electric is leaving us in the dust. they did exactly what the US could have: make it more attractive to buy electric than not, fund infrastructure, spur massive innovation
BYD is leading the battery advancements we need: sodium instead of lithium! 20 min charging!
BYD is leading the battery advancements we need: sodium instead of lithium! 20 min charging!