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- A sign at a Metro Transit light rail station in St. Paul advises riders of a continued requirement to wear face coverings on public transit on July 31.
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By Peter Cox
A year ago, almost all of Chey Eisenman’s car service customers wore a mask.
"We were at almost 100 percent of people — regardless of how they felt about COVID or masks — were wearing them,” she said. “And that was fascinating to me. And then as people got vaccinated, those masks came off really fast."
Eisenman runs a luxury car service called Chey Car. She said mask-wearing ebbed and flowed during the summer months, and jumped up again in late July when cases started to rise again, but she said that’s dropped off in recent months to around one in five of her riders.
“Just in the last couple of days, but not as dramatically as the end of July, we have seen people kind of putting on their masks again in the car,” she said.
Minnesota is hitting daily COVID case numbers not seen since the massive spike last fall and winter, and the seven-day positivity rate is now above 10 percent. As of Tuesday’s data release from the state health department, 1,348 people are hospitalized with COVID and there are 31,645 known active cases. [Continue reading] | |
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By Sonja Kleven
It's been more than 50 years since the U.S. government started spending billions of dollars on interstate highways to link American cities.
But the cost of those freeways was much more than just financial. They also cut through the heart of vibrant neighborhoods, including in the Twin Cities — displacing residents, and communities of color in particular.
The far-reaching impact of the freeway construction is the subject of an exhibit that opened at the Hennepin History Museum this fall: "Human Toll: A Public History of 35W." [Continue reading]
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- Celebrated Ojibwe artist George Morrison gets new stamp. Celebrated Minnesota artist George Morrison — who was born in a Native American fishing village along the North Shore of Lake Superior in 1919, but whose art career took him around the world — will be featured on a new stamp to be released next year by the U.S. Postal Service.
- In Rochester, the future of work could include this driverless shuttle. As the pandemic changes how and where we work, Rochester is still betting on a vibrant downtown. Its Destination Medical Center development initiative has continued, and recently unveiled a driverless shuttle.
Failure is not an option...or is it? NASA flight director Gene Kranz said "Failure is not an option" sums up NASA's approach to their work so well that he used the phrase for his autobiography. But a new pop-up exhibit at the Mall of America is celebrating failure and its place in society.
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