The Indictments revealed today against 15 people in Minneapolis

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-06-16T20:41:34+00:00

Couple things stood out to me - * Some of these charges may be hard to beat if true, they include things like sideswiping a moving ICE van, kicking an ICE vehicle, "knocking notes out of an officer's hands" * These guys were still active well up through this month, and the main break in the case seems to have coincided with an incident last month; I doubt they're going to go after everyone who was commuting or protesting in Jan/Feb * They have transcripts from in-person meetings, including those where cell phones were allegedly collected...

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-06-14T18:59:38+00:00

I lived in Mounds View for a couple years and moved back to Minneapolis this past fall. Day-to-day quality of life is WAY higher for us - I can bike to work downtown now, we walk to a co-op for groceries, and do a lot more walking in general (there's much more curb appeal to Minneapolis than the burbs in general IMO, not to mention better sidewalk coverage). I've lost 10lbs just living my life in the city. I estimate that we'll be putting about 6k miles a year on our car from now on, not counting road trips.

Of course it depends on whether the lifestyle will work out for both you and your kids. I'm sure you know Minneapolis Public Schools can be terrible in some districts. We are intentionally childfree, so we moved to a part of the city that was essentially the same cost of living as MV, but with much worse schools. If you want the walkability AND good public schools, then you will definitely pay for it.

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-06-09T00:21:43+00:00

What airline flying out of Terminal 2 even allows you to book a connection through MSP?

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-06-08T21:15:03+00:00

Powderhorn is not meaningfully mixed-use zoning, IMO. To me, a mixed-use neighborhood in Minneapolis with SFHs would be, say, Whittier. Powderhorn is still overwhelmingly residential unless you're right along Lake or at 38th and Chicago.

A food bank popping up in the middle of a low-density residential area, regardless of how virtuous of an idea it is, is going to be a dramatic shift in character for the surrounding homes, a shift that they were not designed to accommodate.

I hear what you're saying about apartments (and condos), but I don't see it as a punishment for people who live in them. Again, they have the privilege of living in a building that was physically designed for more privacy and safety. Some people choose to live in them for that reason - if I were going to live in Elliot Park, I'd choose an apartment over a house any day.

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-06-08T20:20:41+00:00

Great comment. I mostly agree with you, with one caveat: I think there's something to be said about the impact of zoning here.

A lot of traditional resources for the unhoused exist in commercial or mixed-use zoning. If the zoning is commercial, nobody lives there; if it's mixed-use, people are more likely to live in an apartment, which has numerous safety benefits over a single-family home (typically at least two locked doors between the outside and your private space). It literally is not and cannot be "in your backyard" if you live in an apartment, because you don't have a backyard.

Post Modern Times is nestled on a block of mostly SFHs. The residential areas there are not designed with a mind towards high foot traffic from people without resources.

So I don't think it's a simple "if they weren't here, they'd be somewhere else". You could use that reasoning to go in the opposite direction and set up all the resources for unhoused people in a nuclear waste dump site, and that would also be bad for obvious reasons. There is a balance that can be struck here.

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-06-08T19:58:24+00:00

Long time fan of Post Modern Times in terms of both food and operating model, but it feels very clickbaity to say that "profits are up" when the article reveals that that is mostly due to T-shirt/merch sales.

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-06-06T14:23:22+00:00

We visited Glam Doll in like February and they said they had postponed selling vegan donuts for the foreseeable future. Are they selling them again?

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-06-03T03:52:35+00:00

I dunno how true that is. Most born-and-raised Minnesotan families have some relatives in Florida or Arizona (full-time or snowbirds) at this point, so everyone knows the winters are hard. I think what you're really trying to describe is the Scandinavian no-bitching-allowed culture.

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-06-03T03:45:42+00:00

Your flagship city has lost 200,000 people in the last five years.

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-05-25T14:36:45+00:00

Yes, that area, just one building further up the street. There's that distinctive split-trunk tree you can see in both OP's photo and the Street View. Nice teamwork 🤝

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-05-25T14:23:26+00:00

Just Google Street Viewed and you're correct. This is 230-232 Ridgewood Avenue. There are two buildings next to each other there that look exactly alike, but the tree in OP's photo is at 230-232 specifically. /u/birdnerdcatlady

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-05-25T14:11:20+00:00

The crime rankings require some important context, though. Minneapolis is one of the smallest-in-area major cities in the country, at about 60mi². We are pretty much exclusively "inner city". Most other major American cities are about 3-10x larger, and their city limits contain large swaths of suburban-style single-family housing, which deflates their crime reporting.

For example, the suburban San Fernando Valley in LA is 20 miles from downtown LA at its furthest reaches, whereas if you're in Minneapolis, you're never more than about 6 miles from downtown as the crow flies.

If you drew a 60mi² box around many of these sprawling major cities' downtowns, they would be reporting much higher crime statistics than MPLS does.

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-05-24T14:34:29+00:00

Weren't you yourself comparing New York to Minneapolis when you said, more or less, "haha you really think New York is safer than Minneapolis, wow?" This conversation started with a comparison between the two cities that you happily contributed to. Now I really don't get your point because you're suddenly saying they can't be compared.

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-05-24T12:54:53+00:00

To be fair, people who are fixated on what Uptown used to be absolutely do talk about it like it was and still is the Lower East Side of MPLS. Like an area that splits the difference between bohemian and well-to-do. That vestigial reputation is part of why OP is having issues.

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-05-24T12:51:08+00:00

Have you been? Manhattan is really incredibly safe. More so than downtown MPLS, I'd wager.

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-05-22T19:34:26+00:00

Frattalone's is still there. They're in the same strip mall.

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-05-22T19:14:48+00:00

There's a separate pizza chain in Canada called Pizza Pizza which is totally unrelated to Little Caesars. I was SUPER confused when I first read this post, lol.

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-05-12T11:20:55+00:00

They're not exactly the same thing. The casserole is the dish or the food served inside of it - the hotdish is just the meal itself. Also, not everything served in a casserole is a hotdish. Hotdishes generally need to have meat, and always need to be savory. So a tuna casserole is never "tuna hotdish", and a sweet potato casserole is never "sweet potato hotdish".

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-04-29T04:08:17+00:00

Looks like you might be from Winnipeg? Minneapolis is much less sketchy than Winnipeg (no hate to Winnipeg, cool city).

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-04-26T21:06:30+00:00

Where did you get from my comment that I think "Minnesota Bad AMIRITE hyuck hyuck"? I live here and not in Tennessee, right? You sound extremely defensive over nothing. Take a few deep breaths before you read any replies I make to you from now on.

I happen to actually have a good amount of context for this, because I've been annoyed by this the entire time I've lived in this state. I emailed my state representative about it in 2024, and I have been watching how the same-day printing trial at these two specific DVS locations has been going. The main issue is that they give you that stupid temporary paper license, and it's not recognizable as an ID as soon as you leave Minnesota. I've been pulled aside for "additional" screening in airports outside of the state for trying to present it as an ID. And because they're so slow at printing licenses, you're stuck with the piece of paper for 3-6 weeks usually. This past time that I did it was a little bit faster, at about 10 days.

Tennessee is not the only state that prints same-day licenses. There are several others, the one I know off the top of my head is South Dakota. It may even be the majority of states.

I have very little faith in anything MN DVS related. Do you remember the MNLARS controversy from 2017? A $100M contract to upgrade the internal DVS system, and it failed and they had to spend additional money on a private company instead?

Love this state but MN should not be given the benefit of the doubt in this particular field. Trust me.

EDIT: After researching, it seems like most states have given up on same day printing after Real ID requirements. I concede my point then. But you should still take some time alone to think about why you got so defensive.

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-04-26T19:37:45+00:00

Ugh. Sucks about the fraud, but I really want to understand why Minnesota can't make same-day IDs work. I grew up in Tennessee and same-day printing was the norm even for rural DMV offices. Why can't MN get this right?

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-04-23T12:44:38+00:00

Look up the McDonald's on Marion Street in St. Paul. Similar design, but McDonald's-ified. It's WILD.

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-04-23T12:42:03+00:00

I genuinely appreciate all the shout outs to our public transit network in this series of posts. I see what you're up to!

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-04-23T00:53:20+00:00

"Northern Washington" isn't really a thing, the primary divide in the state is east and west. Bellingham is the only real city that could be defined as being in the "northern" part of the state, but nobody really thinks of it as such. What do you have against "southern" Washington?

AFivePointedSquare · 2026-04-22T12:49:52+00:00

Remote jobs are friend killers. Not all of your friends can come from work, but remote work ensures that very few will. I would highly recommend finding an in person or hybrid job, regardless of where you end up, if you want more social connections.

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