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MPR News Notes on the news from the Twin Cities
By Jon Collins
Jon Collins is an online reporter for MPR News. He’s worked for MPR as a reporter and producer since the beginning of 2012.
Minneapolis, which has hosted a beard-off for the previous five years and boasts a Minneapolis Beard and Mustache Club, was ranked sixth most facial hair-friendly city in the country. Read more →
The founder of Minnesota’s first gay bookstore, Harvey Hertz, died late last month at the age of 73. Read more →
The annual event of intoxicated undead is crawling over to the Warehouse District this year. Organizers are also piecing together their first zombie pub crawl in another city this October. Read more →
The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor Betsy Hodges signed off Friday on rules that will allow mobile grocery trucks to sell produce at more locations across the city. Read more →
Ethan Fawley, executive director of the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition, said he is hearing more concern about bike etiquette as biking continues to grow in popularity. Fawley, and some bicyclists on Twitter, suggested some ways to maintain safety (and harmony) as you take to the streets this spring. Read more →
A conflict broke out in 1975-76 over control of natural foods co-ops that included occupations of stores and violence. Read more →
The city is negotiating to try to reopen Nicollet Avenue. But large segments of the surrounding community were never in favor of closing the street, and they left a mural on the back of the Kmart store as a testament to their opposition. Read more →
Minneapolis officials are pushing forward their bicycling safety campaign by providing police officers with small cards they can hand out detailing laws around bicycling. The unique thing about the initiative is that it asks equal responsibility from both drivers and bicyclists for creating safe streets. Read more →
Three full days after voters cast their ballots in the Minneapolis municipal elections, the results are in. Election workers finished tabulating the ranked-choice voting totals in seven remaining races on Friday evening. Read more →