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Jacob Frey's Vibrant Uptown: storms have cleared, new shops opening every day, Hollywood premiere searchlights are being deployed at our historic theaters. Aisha Chughtai's Besieged Uptown: Why isn't someone from Aisha Chughtai's office pointing that searchlight at the criminals?

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Star Tribune letter writers, it'd be helpful if you would end your comments with name, location, and an explanation of why you didn't give a shit when Andrew Johnson did it.

I think Becka Thompson will refer to this in future campaign material as "recognized by Naomi Kritzer for taking bold stances.".

What's the Wedge LIVE difference? It's the institutional knowledge that stops me from deploying fake outrage over a story that has an almost identical precedent from less than two years ago and went nearly unremarked upon.

Man wrongfully convicted, released from prison after 27 years, immediately "went to Uptown and got a stir fry and some kiwi juice.".

I'm not saying you can't be mad at Council Member Ellison. I'm just saying I have deep regret we can't put Jay Kolls in a time machine to give Andrew Johnson a real hard time for doing the same thing two years ago.

Cashman also cited the Downtown Council's support for these street improvements in their own 2035 plan: "protected bikeways are the future" and "there is federal funding for protected bikeways on 9th and 10th streets"

Rainville warns there won't be money for council's "pet projects" if they wreck these streets, chase away business investment. Cashman: "I'm very aware of the financial situation, which is why I don't wanna leave 4 point something million dollars of federal funding on the table"

In addition to project by project re-timing, in 2026-27 there will be complete retiming of all traffic signals in the city, taking 2-3 years.

Traffic engineer Allan Klugman responding to concerns about traffic backing up: "As these new roads come online and have a slightly different layout, patterns change a bit, we respond" by modifying traffic signal timing.

Earlier Vetaw said she wasn't against the project, but she wasn't willing to vote for it in committee. Project doesn't seem to be at risk, even without Rainville and Vetaw's support.

Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw, not that concerned about the city losing $4.5 million in scarce federal funding: "I don't wanna lose businesses. The federal funds are gonna come and go. We'll lose businesses if we don't do the right thing here."

Downtown Council & building owners (BOMA) concerned about lane reductions, bumpouts, traffic, access for delivery trucks, and snow removal. Some specific concerns have already been considered, like the bikeway curbs at 9th and Marquette (TBD pending a future development project).

The improvements include bumpouts, a protected bike lane, dynamic lanes that shift from parking to travel lanes during rush hour. And will be paid for in part with $4.5 million in federal funds that will disappear if the design can't be finalized by 2026.

Council Member Michael Rainville asks about timing of traffic study for 9th/10th St improvements. City staff says both 2018/2024 traffic levels were considered. Then Rainville launches into complaints about it not accounting for increased downtown activity. (Did he not listen?)

Credit to photographer Taylor Dahlin for capturing how pleased Josh Martin and I are to be together in this moment.

My name is Jazz Hampton. I'm running for mayor of Minneapolis. This is video 39 of 100 that I'm recording every single day.

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