Jim Meyer
@strongmeyer.bsky.social
Minneapolis resident into local political affairs, and now a council candidate in Ward 11. Not much to see here, yet. Maybe. Former local-music reviewer, magazine editor. Current nightshift LPN.
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Minneapolis releases Cast Vote Record (CVR) extracts for each individual ranked-choice race but not for entire ballots. However, based on the precinct columns perfectly matching up, it appears the rows are in the same order in each CVR file. If so, one can do cross-race analyses like this.
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Minneapolis releases Cast Vote Record (CVR) extracts for each individual ranked-choice race but not for entire ballots. However, based on the precinct columns perfectly matching up, it appears the rows are in the same order in each CVR file. If so, one can do cross-race analyses like this.
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🧵🧵 I remain opposed to tiny home villages because they’re an expensive, often unsafe interim that more often than not does not lead to permanent housing.
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Employees documented abuse and filth at LA tiny home villages. Officials did next to nothing
More than 550 incident reports detail assaults, drug use, unsanitary conditions and more across a dozen villages designed to shelter and support unhoused people. LA Public Press obtained reports that ...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🧵🧵 I remain opposed to tiny home villages because they’re an expensive, often unsafe interim that more often than not does not lead to permanent housing.
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/empl...
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/empl...
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BREAKING: A Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million and apologize over a 2023 police raid on a small-town newspaper, editor says.
Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over police raid on a small-town newspaper, editor says
The editor of a small-town Kansas newspaper says the local county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over police raid on the paper in August 2023.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
BREAKING: A Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million and apologize over a 2023 police raid on a small-town newspaper, editor says.
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Includes "pro" quotes from Barry Clegg and Carol Becker, and "against" quotes from John Edwards, David Brauer, and yours truly.
Of course, Minneapolis politics is my Roman Empire, so I was happy to give Cam my thoughts on "Strong Mayor"... full quote I provided below:
Of course, Minneapolis politics is my Roman Empire, so I was happy to give Cam my thoughts on "Strong Mayor"... full quote I provided below:
November 8, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Includes "pro" quotes from Barry Clegg and Carol Becker, and "against" quotes from John Edwards, David Brauer, and yours truly.
Of course, Minneapolis politics is my Roman Empire, so I was happy to give Cam my thoughts on "Strong Mayor"... full quote I provided below:
Of course, Minneapolis politics is my Roman Empire, so I was happy to give Cam my thoughts on "Strong Mayor"... full quote I provided below:
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Some thoughts on Eric Roper’s finger-wag in the mayor’s race: www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-r...
1. Asking “what chance did [Davis & Hampton] have ignores Frey’s agency is creating the race‘s dynamics. Frey sued the most moderate hope (Emily Koski) to cut off her money & intimated others. 1/
1. Asking “what chance did [Davis & Hampton] have ignores Frey’s agency is creating the race‘s dynamics. Frey sued the most moderate hope (Emily Koski) to cut off her money & intimated others. 1/
Roper: Jacob Frey can thank the far left for handing him another term
Frey was a vulnerable incumbent. But progressives banked on the wrong guy to beat him.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Some thoughts on Eric Roper’s finger-wag in the mayor’s race: www.startribune.com/jacob-frey-r...
1. Asking “what chance did [Davis & Hampton] have ignores Frey’s agency is creating the race‘s dynamics. Frey sued the most moderate hope (Emily Koski) to cut off her money & intimated others. 1/
1. Asking “what chance did [Davis & Hampton] have ignores Frey’s agency is creating the race‘s dynamics. Frey sued the most moderate hope (Emily Koski) to cut off her money & intimated others. 1/
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This is so well done. But will any of the extremely confident ignorant people in local subreddit comment sections watch it?
Wonder why so many Minnesota school districts across the state are turning to voters for local funding year after year? Thank Jesse Ventura and Tim Pawlenty.
Saint Paul: Vote YES on November 4th. Then let’s tell state leaders it’s time to raise revenue and stabilize school funding. Yesforspps.com
Saint Paul: Vote YES on November 4th. Then let’s tell state leaders it’s time to raise revenue and stabilize school funding. Yesforspps.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is so well done. But will any of the extremely confident ignorant people in local subreddit comment sections watch it?
Jamison Whiting pic was on a mailer, not here. Odd.
General thoughts:
1. W10 Millard had to stay off to pretend she’s a progressive
2. Was Becka even asked, given toxicity?
3. Four at-large for 3 Park seats helps progressives!
4. Good for Brandt (BET) & Deshpande (Parks 3) for saying away. They badly want Fine through.
5. Did W11 fall into the river?
1. W10 Millard had to stay off to pretend she’s a progressive
2. Was Becka even asked, given toxicity?
3. Four at-large for 3 Park seats helps progressives!
4. Good for Brandt (BET) & Deshpande (Parks 3) for saying away. They badly want Fine through.
5. Did W11 fall into the river?
here is the full slate of "team minneapolis" or "team mpls" candidates for mayor, city council, park board, and BET
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Jamison Whiting pic was on a mailer, not here. Odd.
This was helpful. Similar event supposedly coming to Ward 11 Oct. 29. (Unconfirmed. Stay tuned.) Before the event, I took a picture of the sad former Bethany Care Home, shuttered next door to Windom Rec. Then the Home was subject of the budget discussion. CP EP has urgent ideas for its next life.
Stop by tonight and share your budget priorities!
Come join us for our Ward 1 community budget meeting tonight at Windom Park at 5:30 PM. This is a great opportunity to learn more from the City’s budget team about the process and share what’s most important to you going into the 2026 budget.
October 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This was helpful. Similar event supposedly coming to Ward 11 Oct. 29. (Unconfirmed. Stay tuned.) Before the event, I took a picture of the sad former Bethany Care Home, shuttered next door to Windom Rec. Then the Home was subject of the budget discussion. CP EP has urgent ideas for its next life.
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Stop by tonight and share your budget priorities!
Come join us for our Ward 1 community budget meeting tonight at Windom Park at 5:30 PM. This is a great opportunity to learn more from the City’s budget team about the process and share what’s most important to you going into the 2026 budget.
October 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Stop by tonight and share your budget priorities!
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Thank you to the Minnesota @startribune.com for publishing my Strib Voices commentary on the contest for mayor of Minneapolis. This short piece is not meant to answer every policy question, but offer some perspective that I haven’t seen widely shared elsewhere. www.startribune.com/mpls-voter-g...
Opinion | An insider’s perspective on the mayor’s race in Minneapolis
A former chair of the Minneapolis DFL Party offers voters this guide, based on his perspective being in local politics for 14 years.
www.startribune.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Thank you to the Minnesota @startribune.com for publishing my Strib Voices commentary on the contest for mayor of Minneapolis. This short piece is not meant to answer every policy question, but offer some perspective that I haven’t seen widely shared elsewhere. www.startribune.com/mpls-voter-g...
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This is much, much more significant than the Comey indictment but has gotten like 0.1% of the media coverage
🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is much, much more significant than the Comey indictment but has gotten like 0.1% of the media coverage
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If you're in Minnesota, Xcel just announced they're trying to raise our electricity rates. There's a comment period and info about rate changes here: www.xcelenergy.com/company/rate...
Xcel Energy - 2025 Electric Rate Case
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September 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
If you're in Minnesota, Xcel just announced they're trying to raise our electricity rates. There's a comment period and info about rate changes here: www.xcelenergy.com/company/rate...
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Audio from today's Charter Commission meeting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeTl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeTl...
Mpls Charter Commission meeting w/Mayor Frey on stripping City Council confirmation power 8/20/2025
YouTube video by Wedge LIVE!
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August 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Audio from today's Charter Commission meeting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeTl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeTl...
Black woman biz owner near 38th and Chicago, bullhorn in hand.
Redirecting...
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August 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Black woman biz owner near 38th and Chicago, bullhorn in hand.
I was at this. Tensions were a bit high. I knew 3 news groups were there and have been awaiting their work.
"The city’s pedestrian mall concept released Tuesday would restrict through traffic on Chicago Avenue and create a cul-de-sac and public plaza near the People’s Way, a former Speedway gas station across from the site where Floyd died." sahanjournal.com/public-safet...
Minneapolis releases study on pedestrian mall at George Floyd Square
Minneapolis released a new study on a potential pedestrian mall at George Floyd Square and is seeking public input.
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August 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I was at this. Tensions were a bit high. I knew 3 news groups were there and have been awaiting their work.
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It can get easy to get lost in the big dollar amounts, so I took the 2026 recommended budget and fiscal history and indexed everything to 2023 to show how some select departments have had budgets change from 2023 to 2026. minneapolismn.opengov.com/transparency...
August 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It can get easy to get lost in the big dollar amounts, so I took the 2026 recommended budget and fiscal history and indexed everything to 2023 to show how some select departments have had budgets change from 2023 to 2026. minneapolismn.opengov.com/transparency...
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The mostly forgotten history of the Minneapolis Marines, a team that emerged from the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in 1905. racketmn.com/300-cedar-av...
300 Cedar Ave.: The Birthplace of Minnesota’s First NFL Team - Racket
The mostly forgotten history of a team that emerged from Minneapolis's Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in 1905.
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July 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The mostly forgotten history of the Minneapolis Marines, a team that emerged from the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in 1905. racketmn.com/300-cedar-av...
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That is what happens when you skip intelligence briefings.
Trump, whispering to Hegseth: What do you know about this?
Hegseth, whispering to Trump: John might know
Trump to press: Well, I'd ask John to discuss it
Hegseth, whispering to Trump: John might know
Trump to press: Well, I'd ask John to discuss it
July 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
That is what happens when you skip intelligence briefings.
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Jazz doesn’t pin the tail on the donkey (Frey) but this is a good explainer: bsky.app/profile/jazz...
Jazz, can you explain this article like I’m 5? SURE! What other questions do you all have?
July 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jazz doesn’t pin the tail on the donkey (Frey) but this is a good explainer: bsky.app/profile/jazz...
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Minneapolis is on a journey of transformation. Over the last five years, we’ve worked to reform community safety, invested in alternatives to policing and more. Learn about our on-going journey, our challenges and our commitment to the people of our city. htwww.youtube.com/watch...
Minneapolis: five years later
After the murder of George Floyd, the City reflects on its journey of reform, healing and commitment to building a safer, more equitable future. http://minneapolismn.gov/mpls-five-years-later
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May 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Minneapolis is on a journey of transformation. Over the last five years, we’ve worked to reform community safety, invested in alternatives to policing and more. Learn about our on-going journey, our challenges and our commitment to the people of our city. htwww.youtube.com/watch...
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I won’t blame an intern but the Strib allows Uptown businesses to shit-talk their area in TV news terms (“saving their neighborhood”) DESPITE a new business opening, buying the BS that parking is “minimal” & letting Frey off hook even tho his public works did this www.startribune.com/uptown-minne...
Uptown Minneapolis businesses get more aggressive about saving their neighborhood
They want to form a business improvement district, work with landlords and improve parking, all to boost traffic to the commercial area.
www.startribune.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I won’t blame an intern but the Strib allows Uptown businesses to shit-talk their area in TV news terms (“saving their neighborhood”) DESPITE a new business opening, buying the BS that parking is “minimal” & letting Frey off hook even tho his public works did this www.startribune.com/uptown-minne...
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Thread from that day.
Palmisano admits it was rushed over the lunch hour: "my mistake that it has your name [Chughtai] on it instead of mine."
April 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Thread from that day.
After a 20-year hiatus I've resumed Mpls. music reporting over on Substack. It was mostly the idea of Flamin' Oh's main man Robert Wilkinson, the subject of article numero one in an ongoing series on enduring local bands and scene generators.
Best Old Bands Volume I: Flamin' Oh's
A continuing series on Twin Cities music's most lasting artists and architects.
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March 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
After a 20-year hiatus I've resumed Mpls. music reporting over on Substack. It was mostly the idea of Flamin' Oh's main man Robert Wilkinson, the subject of article numero one in an ongoing series on enduring local bands and scene generators.
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Russia’s greatest military asset is not any bomb, tank, plane or ship. It is the Republican Party.
Heroes
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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February 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Russia’s greatest military asset is not any bomb, tank, plane or ship. It is the Republican Party.
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Perfectly executed piece from my colleague @danamilbank.bsky.social, on our owner's edict that WaPo opinions write "every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
The greatest threat to these pillars is Donald Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The greatest threat to these pillars is Donald Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
February 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Perfectly executed piece from my colleague @danamilbank.bsky.social, on our owner's edict that WaPo opinions write "every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
The greatest threat to these pillars is Donald Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The greatest threat to these pillars is Donald Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...