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Parks, parks, parks! Park Board meets tonight, Loring Park's new tennis courts, and city-wide kid bike parks

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Boiler Room is back, the mayor's budget, Minnehaha Creek milling

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Steven Square's Boiler Room Coffee is coming back

Boiler Room Coffee is coming back in September to Stevens Square-Loring Heights

Meet our newest team member, a look at the Kenilworth light rail corridor, Harold & Maude tonight

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Kenilworth tours give public an up-close look at lightrail construction

The Kenilworth corridor is notorious for causing much of the cost overruns and delays associated with the Green Line Extension.

Meet our advertising relations team member, Vasiliki

Southwest Voices welcomes a life-long Kingfield resident to our team

Explore Whittier, gun violence data from the city, hip-hop at Lake Harriet

The Southwest Weekly

A blockbuster report on gun violence in Minneapolis, MPD plans for drones, and a 5G tower protest

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Kingfield residents resist Verizon 5G towers

Kingfield residents have been organizing this summer to stop the installation of a 5G antenna pole at 41st and Garfield, including physicall

Primary election results, Whittier neighborhood guide, canoeing at Loring Pond

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Whittier Neighborhood Guide

A guide to things to eat and drink, places to shop, and things to do in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, curated by our readers

Go vote, ask a realtor your questions, and ALMA Provisions comes to Brasa

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Minneapolis’ Lost Neighborhood: Cottage City

Before Liden Hills and Cottage City there was Reyataotonwe, a Mdewakanton Dakotan settlement.

Primary election tomorrow, police union contract listening tonight, block parties all summer and fall

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Uptown Art Fair, The Malt Shop re-opens, figure out who to vote for

The Southwest Weekly

Reader endorsements, and how MPLS tax $ is funding WI GOP campaign

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Reader Endorsement: We need Mary Moriarty as our next Hennepin County Attorney

Instead of doing our own endorsements, we're publishing a couple reader perspectives on the Hennepin County Attorney race.

Reader Endorsement: Why I Support Martha Holton Dimick

Why I support Martha Holton Dimick

A Right-Wing Republican is Running for Governor of Wisconsin. Minneapolis Taxpayers Are Helping Fund His Campaign.

Digging into the Michels Corporation contracts with the city of Minneapolis

School Board Voter Guide, Public Safety director confirmed for full Council vote

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Uptown Art Fair back and the story of the Bde Maka Ska skate park

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Review: Hemp-derived THC products are synthetically made, effects vary wildly

Delta-9 edibles have been legal in Minnesota for a month, but what about all the other edibles you can buy? What are they like?

DIY skate park turns into Parks-approved pop-up at Bde Maka Ska

The Park Board collaborated with City of Skate to move a skate park that skaters constructed in 2020.

Bde Maka Ska Parkway closure, repaving the Greenway, dunking a councilmember

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Met Council discusses rapid bus lines, 2040 Plan

Southwest Voices is expanding its meeting coverage to cover some Metropolitan Council meetings.

From blank to colorful walls in Uptown, thanks to graffiti artists

We visited three walls during the LynLake Street Art Series and revisited the spots two week later to see the transformation.

The great Hennepin compromise, Legacy moving, and dance hall music tonight

The Southwest Weekly

Committee votes through Hennepin Ave Redesign plan without all-day bus lanes

The redesign resolution passed in committee and moves to the full City Council for approval Aug. 4.

Go shop on Lyndale, and big Hennepin redesign & Cedar-Isles meetings today

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Larue’s moves to Linden Hills, citing parking issues

Owner Kathy Lawrow is moving Larue’s because she believes upcoming street infrastructure changes will negatively affect her business.

Two Dunn Bros. morph into Jones Coffee, 2040 Plan is back, comedy night at Órale

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Jones Coffee takes over two Dunn Brothers locations in Linden Hills and Fulton

The new brand quietly took over on July 18th

Response to "Why is the city so committed to its status quo?"

Understanding different views in good faith will lead to better policy outcomes if we see the complexity of others.

Revisiting a carjacking victim several months later, Bebe Zito has food every day, Britney Spears drag brunch

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What happened after I was carjacked

This upper-middle class white woman has had her world shaken. But maybe, in the end, that can be used for the goo

Malt Shop opening date, TILT to Liquor Lyle's, Abang Yoli to Kingfield

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Streetcars of yore, pop-up market at Mueller Park, and beach shanties

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13 Reasons Why You Should Go to the Twin Cities Community Pop-Up Markets at Mueller Park

The markets have a restorative focus and are free, accessible to all, and designed to build local connections.

Big day for the Kenny neighborhood and when Minneapolis had streetcars

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Streetcars of Southwest Minneapolis: The Como-Harriet Streetcar

Streetcars were known to bring neighborhoods and people of different ethnicities together to share common spaces.

A local car shop that's older than most of us, garden work & free pizza, beaches closed

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Mail Carrier Shortage Causing Delays on the West Side of the Lakes in Minneapolis

They need two new mail carriers. Are you one of them?

Why is the City of Minneapolis so committed to its status quo?

City staff’s ‘toxic’ work environment appears less important than a well-managed budget

Clausen Servicenter– the place to go when you’ve got a lizard in your car

The Clausen family has been servicing cars in the Stevens Square neighborhood since the New Deal era.

Larue's heads for Linden Hills and last call for school board candidate questions

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Larue's botique moving from East Harriet to Linden Hills

The move will be official in September

New art in LynLake, jury pool diversity, and Motown music

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Hennepin County discusses disparities in jury pools

A key focus at the the Hennepin County Board meeting on July 12 was a presentation about increasing jury pool diversity.

LynLake Street Art Fest, stroopwafels, and our Hennepin County Attorney Voter Guide

The Southwest Weekly

Street art fest putting LynLake on the map

In its fifth year, the LynLake Street Art Series invites graffiti artists to design and paint murals on walls throughout the LynLake area.

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