Minneapolis - St. Paul Metro

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A community for leftists and progressives within the Minneapolis - St. Paul Metro Area, including all suburbs and exurbs.

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  3. Probably some other stuff

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Minnesota has the highest median personal income in the Midwest and boasts a relatively narrow gap between the lowest incomes and the median.

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anyone else going? planning on hitting up anything specific?

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We don't currently have any community guidelines in the sidebar. We should probably have some. Do people have opinions on what sort of guidelines we should aim for? I'm a fan of the HN guidelines (whatever you may think of the site at large):

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Here's the first few that are most relevant:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

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Residents gathered Friday to celebrate the closure of Smith Foundry, ending more than 100 years of production and pollution in south Minneapolis’ East Phillips neighborhood.

“Every little ingredient that went into this fight led to this victory,” Joe Vital, an organizer with the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute, told a crowd in Cedar Field Park.

Vital grew up in East Phillips, and was one of the first residents to hear about the federal pollution violations that led to the foundry’s closing. He and dozens of residents gathered, shared food and enjoyed the moment. They screen printed fresh t-shirts with the slogan, “When we fight, we win,” and basked in the rhythm of an Indigenous drum circle.

The group included neighbors who complained about the foundry for years, citing the acrid smell and black dust the building emitted. Their fears were substantiated in May 2023, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conducted a surprise inspection. The EPA found that from 2018 to 2023, the foundry emitted nearly double the amount of pollution allowed by its state-issued permit. The EPA cited the foundry in August 2023 for nine violations of the Clean Air Act.

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lol they've got nothing

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House of Balls (www.atlasobscura.com)
submitted 1 year ago by m_f@midwest.social to c/msp@midwest.social
 
 

Has anyone gone here? I tried going once, but it was unexpectedly closed because it's just some dude. Lots of cool stuff sitting outside, though.

https://www.houseofballs.com/

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An 8-year-old girl came to her dad’s rescue while he was working at a Twin Cities liquor store and beat an armed robber with a baseball bat as her father won a fight for the weapon, according to police.

The pint-sized heroics late Saturday at Big Discount Liquors in Maplewood resulted in the arrest and a first-degree robbery charge being filed Monday against Conchobhar Joseph Morrell, 37, of St. Paul.

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Naomi Kritzer writes a lot of very helpful opinion pieces about local politics in the twin cities. The linked article is about probably the most contested race. I'll post the other ones here in order to not spam the community.

https://naomikritzer.com/2024/07/31/primary-elections-2024-mn-house-61a/

https://naomikritzer.com/2024/07/02/election-2024-us-senate/

https://naomikritzer.com/2024/06/19/elections-2024-primaries-in-minneapolis-and-st-paul/

https://naomikritzer.com/2024/07/31/primary-elections-2024-minneapolis-school-board-at-large/

And a few helpful links. Find out who's on your ballot:

https://myballotmn.sos.mn.gov/

See election results:

https://elections.startribune.com/minnesota-primary-2024-results/index.html

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