🔌🚍 Whittier Elementary students help launch new electric school bus initiative 🚍⚡️

Minneapolis Public Schools moves toward a greener future with two new electric school buses, thanks to a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the persuasive letters of…

Congrats to the Southwest robotics team on making it to the first Robotics World Championship!

The reason I know the sun times so well is the FREE, daily Southwest Voices newsletter I produce reports the sunrise and sunset times. It's full of local news, community info, and so many events. southwestvoices.news/sign-up

Today's double rainbow, seen from an apartment in Loring Park. (h/t Sorcha McGuire)

Meet Rev. Zac Calvo, the pastor at Grace Trinity Church: 'The essence of being a good neighbor is not about subjecting your relationships or communities to a purity test of actions or beliefs. It’s about cultivating a deep sense of curiosity for others.' southwestvoices.news/posts/meet-rev…

Rep. Hortman's quote also shows that we need to keep sharing zoning successes. E.g. reforms like those proposed in MN have allowed for more affordable housing in Houston and Portland, and ofc look at wins in Minneapolis! These aren't unproven policies.
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The building wasn't fortified like C David George's buildings, because the city didn't see a point.

I will miss the one vestige of the dense neighborhood that was before the freeway interchange came through
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My latest Friday afternoon read in Southwest Voices:

Hope Community, the owner of the Dundry House apartments that burned earlier this week, planned to demolish it after a November fire. southwestvoices.news/posts/hope-com…

Metro Transit’s longest-serving bus operator, Melanie Benson, celebrated her retirement (and her 69th birthday!) on Thursday – 47 years, 5 months, and 24 days after taking the wheel for the first time. Hear more from Melanie at racketmn.com/metro-transit-…

There's a bike tour of Bryn Mawr happening on Saturday. Meet at Bassett Creek Playground at Chestnut and Thomas for the 8 mile ride through the neighborhood! The tour will finish at Le Café by Bberi Desserts at Alliance Française.

Despite spending 'hundreds of thousands of dollars' on security measures, Hope Community will be forced to demolish their building at 1829 5th Ave S following a major fire this week. southwestvoices.news/posts/hope-com…

Come buy art from @toadsongs and many other local artists on Saturday at Burroughs Community School in Minneapolis.

Here's everything we know about what's next for the Loring Park Speedway location: southwestvoices.news/posts/vacant-l…

Mpls tweeps: There’s a new #pastor in town who’s here to reclaim church as a public gathering space and to claim #faith community as a place of liberation. southwestvoices.news/posts/meet-rev… #minneapolis #LGBTQ #Uptown Southwest Voices

. Southwest Voices reported today in their newsletter that a tree honoring robert skafte will be planted in loring park on may 11 from 10:00-11:30am, exact location TBD (flyer from friends of loring park: friendsofloringpark.org/events-1/2024/…)

According to City Council agendas from last week, a new restaurant called Estancia Larumbe Steak House will be moving in to 4751 Nicollet Ave S, the space that previously housed Chela's. lims.minneapolismn.gov/Agenda/BHZ/4464