Curtis Gilbert
@curtisgilbert.bsky.social
Senior editor at APM Reports. Run investigations. Make podcasts. Also: Bake bread. Play bass. Sing karaoke. Ride bikes. Slide granite rocks down sheets of ice yelling, "Yup! Yup! Whoa!"
There's also a nifty map of all the properties Minneapolis and St. Paul deemed destroyed in 2020 -- and what's there now. (clickable version is in the story.)
May 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
There's also a nifty map of all the properties Minneapolis and St. Paul deemed destroyed in 2020 -- and what's there now. (clickable version is in the story.)
Story here: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
Red tape, rising costs slow efforts to rebuild businesses burned after Floyd’s murder
Five years after George Floyd’s killing set off nights of destruction, vacant lots and broken buildings remain along Lake Street and other Minneapolis business districts. Some business owners say mone...
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May 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I'm confused. What happened?
April 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I'm confused. What happened?
11: The Outlier
Podcast Episode · Sold a Story · S1 E11 · 31m
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February 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I love how he wanted to add yet another "element" with the redesign.
February 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I love how he wanted to add yet another "element" with the redesign.
It could have been worse: web.archive.org/web/20220105...
Commission agrees to county seal redesign, contest
Due to public demand, St. Francois County Presiding Commissioner Harold Gallaher announced Tuesday that the county is looking at doing some redesigning of perhaps its most noticeable item, the county
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February 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It could have been worse: web.archive.org/web/20220105...
One of my proudest achievements as a City Hall reporter was coming up with that "one boat or two" framing of the logo redesign issue. I must've written three stories about it, but my favorite was this tongue-in-cheek radio piece.... buoyed by sailing songs: www.mprnews.org/story/2015/0...
Two boats won't float: Mpls. changes tack again on city logo
Council members in February agreed to replace the city's longtime two-sailboat logo with a hip, one-boat look. Then they torpedoed the one-boat logo. But now they want it back.
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February 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
One of my proudest achievements as a City Hall reporter was coming up with that "one boat or two" framing of the logo redesign issue. I must've written three stories about it, but my favorite was this tongue-in-cheek radio piece.... buoyed by sailing songs: www.mprnews.org/story/2015/0...
I once had a MN county deny a data request cuz it included an old FoxPro DB. They said no one knew how to open it and screen for private data. So I made a burdensome request for the resumés of all county employees who listed FoxPro as a skill. They backed down. Guess what? Excel can open the files!
February 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I once had a MN county deny a data request cuz it included an old FoxPro DB. They said no one knew how to open it and screen for private data. So I made a burdensome request for the resumés of all county employees who listed FoxPro as a skill. They backed down. Guess what? Excel can open the files!