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Using a variety of staffing strategies, Metro Transit is making progress with safety initiatives on light rail trains.

Fare compliance is real, but the bigger goal is to change the transit vibe ↗

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The community theater group Wonderlust Productions developed a self-guided, time-traveling tour of downtown St. Paul, hosted by a pigeon.

Wandering downtown St. Paul has become a thespian treasure hunt ↗

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In many areas, our trees are too small and streets are too big, making it harder to find a branching crown 'kissing canopy' overhead.

A ‘kissing canopy’ is getting harder to find on Twin Cities streets ↗

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The Minnesota Star Tribune’s plan to sell its North Loop printing facility to a data center developer is bad news for Minneapolis.

A data center is an odd fit for the increasingly valuable North Loop in Minneapolis ↗

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Cities are struggling to confront public safety issues related to homeless encampments. State government solutions and funding are needed.

Whenever you hear about an encampment ‘sweep,’ first ask: Where will the people go? ↗

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An unholy storm merging a disdain for the past with an embrace of poor taste left downtown’s streets bereft.

Did Minneapolis’ ugliest building have to be this bad? ↗

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If it streamlines its frustrating inspections system, St. Paul will make it easier for businesses to open and expand.

St. Paul tiptoes toward reforming its safety inspections process ↗

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Urbanists are quick to reject strip malls, but a closer look reveals something especially valuable these days.

In praise of Twin Cities strip malls ↗

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