Laura Yuen
Gazillion Voices, the Minnesota-based online magazine for adoptees, is letting its subjects bare it all.
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MPR News Notes on the news from the Twin Cities
By Laura Yuen
Laura Yuen is a general assignment reporter covering the Twin Cities as part of MPR News’ metro unit.
St. Paul Mayor Mayor Chris Coleman has picked the head of the Central Corridor Funders Collaborative to direct the city’s planning and economic development. Read more →
Some bus riders may have to figure out a different route next month. Metro Transit is reducing bus service on routes that run parallel to the light-rail line from St. Paul to Minneapolis. But the agency is enhancing nearby bus service, as well as bus routes that link up to the Green Line LRT stations. Read more →
Who would be the heaviest users of Southwest light rail? Hunt for the big globs in the map. Projections by the Metropolitan Council show that the line would be most popular with people traveling to and from select stations in Eden Prairie, Hopkins and St. Louis Park. The opposite is true for the three stops that Read more →
The Twin Cities ballerinas who recently started a conversation about eating disorders will perform their first contemporary show as an “artist-led” company. Read more →
The Metropolitan Council met with focus groups to find out why more people of color aren’t frequenting Twin Cities regional parks. Fear is among the top reasons. Read more →
No one ever said it was a deep tunnel per se, but a group of Minneapolis residents wants to make sure that much is clear to Gov. Mark Dayton. The Kenilworth Preservation Group fired off a letter yesterday to Dayton criticizing what’s been called a “deep shallow tunnel,” an 11th-hour hybrid design concept that the Read more →
Stuart Chazin is sorry for speaking out of school. He sent me an email yesterday apologizing for this quote that capped my last post about the Southwest light-rail project: “What we all want is the whole thing to die,” he said. At the time, the head of the Kenilworth Preservation Group said he was speaking Read more →
Finally in the long-running debate over Southwest light-rail, there’s something that St. Louis Park and at least some Minneapolis residents can agree on. The people who live in the narrowest pinch point of the Kenilworth Corridor are pleading with Minneapolis city officials to stop pushing for a rerouting of freight traffic. Associations representing townhouses and Read more →
You can hear 17-year-old Paul Thao grin over the phone when he tells you it’s his first time to the nation’s capital. “My very first time,” says Thao, of St. Paul. “I’m so happy to be here.” The Harding High School junior is one of nine young delegates from across the United States to present Read more →