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The Cities

MPR News Notes on the news from the Twin Cities

Archives for September 2013

Water supplies in the east metro: by the numbers

Elizabeth DunbarElizabeth Dunbar September 30, 2013, 7:25 AM Sep 30, 2013
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Numbers were everywhere as I reported my story  on how to get some of the east metro suburbs to use less groundwater. The U.S. Geological Survey has linked increased pumping of groundwater in those communities to dropping water levels in White Bear Lake. We don’t like to bombard listeners with a lot of numbers in our Read more →

County decides against cycle track on Minnehaha Avenue

Jon CollinsJon Collins September 27, 2013, 8:54 PM Sep 27, 2013
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Bicycling advocates are disappointed that Hennepin County has decided not to build the city’s first full-fledged cycle track there. Read more →

Anyone lose a pair of pigs? Minneapolis asks

Curtis GilbertCurtis Gilbert September 27, 2013, 2:28 PM Sep 27, 2013
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Minneapolis police and animal control officers apprehended two piglets this morning after they were found wandering near the intersection of 23rd Ave. and Emerson Ave. N. The pigs, a buff and brown male and a cream-colored female, are estimated to be about 5 months old. “Did anyone lose a pair of pigs today?” the city Read more →

Minnesota Sounds and Voices

Mike and Barb Miller’s critters supply horsepower for carriage rides

Dan Olson September 26, 2013, 12:48 PM Sep 26, 2013
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Mike and his teams make appearances in all sorts of parades. On many weekends he and Barb and four legged companions are in their 18-wheeler on the way to special appearances. Read more →

Car-sharing options grow in Minneapolis

Jon CollinsJon Collins September 25, 2013, 8:00 PM Sep 25, 2013
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There are now 145 cars available to share in Minneapolis, with hundreds more expected in the coming months thanks to a partnership between car-sharing companies and the city. Read more →

What’s really being said on the Terrance Franklin video?

Curtis GilbertCurtis Gilbert September 25, 2013, 5:32 PM Sep 25, 2013
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A lawyer for Terrance Franklin’s family says he has a recording of Franklin’s voice captured minutes before police shot and killed him in the basement of a Minneapolis home this spring. This is the second time attorney Michael Padden has drawn attention to a cell phone video recorded across the street from the home where Read more →

Why, yes, that IS your father’s ride: return of the longboard skateboard

Tim NelsonTim Nelson September 24, 2013, 8:29 AM Sep 24, 2013
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You’ve probably seen them. You’ve probably thought to yourself, ‘what is a grown man doing riding a skateboard down the street?’ Welcome back the longboard, the terrestrial cousin to the surfboard, a toy that grew up and got a mortgage. “It’s guys that used to skateboard as a kid, and they want to get back Read more →

Autopsy report: Franklin shot 10 times

Brandt WilliamsBrandt Williams September 23, 2013, 5:46 PM Sep 23, 2013
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A detailed autopsy report from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office obtained by MPR News found nine bullets entered Terrance Franklin’s body, and one bullet grazed his scalp. Most of the shots hit him in the head and neck. Yet the Minneapolis police department’s account of the shooting said Franklin was shot eight times by Read more →

Don’t panic, Mpls – gunshots tonight are only a test

Curtis GilbertCurtis Gilbert September 23, 2013, 5:10 PM Sep 23, 2013
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If you hear a barrage of gunfire in Minneapolis tonight, you probably don’t need to hit the deck. Police will be blasting off rounds in two neighborhoods to calibrate the ShotSpotter system that allows the department pinpoint when and where shots are fired in the city. Here’s more detail from the Minneapolis Police Department: The Read more →

More Mpls. residents commute by bike, on foot

Jon CollinsJon Collins September 23, 2013, 7:00 AM Sep 23, 2013
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The number of people biking and walking to work in Minneapolis continued its steady increase again in 2012, according to a survey from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey that was released this week. Read more →

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