In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s reelection, queer Twin Cities residents are finding security at Queermunity, a café and social space that opened earlier this month.
A recent study commissioned by the St. Paul Downtown Alliance identifies 10 buildings in the downtown area that could easily be converted from office space to residential units.
🏛️ Minneapolis mayor wants teachers group to cancel event over anti-Zionist speaker. A subgroup of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers called “Educators for Palestine” is set to host a 3-hour event on Friday with Taher Herzallah, titled “Being an Educator in a Time of War and Genocide."
🎨 Art Hounds: The M gets bigger, student-curated Black joy and fancy chairs you can’t sit on. Art Hounds discuss the expanded Minnesota Museum of Art’s new wing, a show curated by students at the University of Minnesota about Black joy and a new exhibit with 20 chairs and five mini golf holes.
💧 Suspects arrested after reported break-in at West St. Paul city water reservoir. According to a Wednesday update from the West St. Paul Police Department, officers were called to the reservoir on Imperial Drive at about 10 p.m., and saw several people fleeing the area.
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🎧 Friendly snowy owl joins Great Lakes ship crew. A snowy owl landed on the Great Lakes freighter James R. Barker on Monday, much to the crew’s delight. Photographer, author and birder Sharon Stiteler, also known as the Birdchick, joined MPR News Host Cathy Wurzer to talk about the species’ migration to Minnesota.
🎧 Listen: New York Times reporter Reid Epstein on Ken Martin’s bid for DNC chair. The current chair decided not to run for reelection after the party saw major losses earlier this month, including the defeat Kamala Harris for president. Democrats also lost control of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate.
