A lot has changed since COVID-19. Schools are closed, work and school have shifted online, and millions have lost their jobs.
But one thing hasn’t changed: the price University of Minnesota undergraduate...
By day, Andrew Kozak, a veteran Minneapolis politico, makes a living making voices heard at the State Capitol.
No, not your voice but voices like those of RAI Services, a consumer products company...
Continued from last week's Wanton violence, Pt. I.
A pattern of violence
In the month since the George Floyd protests began in Minneapolis, neither the mayor nor police chief has announced any disciplinary...
Continued from last week's Wanton violence, Pt. I.
A pattern of violence
In the month since the George Floyd protests began in Minneapolis, neither the mayor nor police chief has announced any disciplinary...
It was simple.
The protests that came after the killing of George Floyd by four Minneapolis Police officers were an easy opportunity for the MPD and its leadership to demonstrate remorse or a sense...
It was simple.
The protests that came after the killing of George Floyd by four Minneapolis Police officers were an easy opportunity for the MPD and its leadership to demonstrate remorse or a sense...
Crown, Minnesota resident Kurt Daudt, made a big career move a couple weeks ago. According to a press release from his employer Stateside Associates, a D.C. government relations firm which describes itself...
A few weeks ago, controversy erupted on the app Nextdoor in the University area. I hate to admit that I use it, but it's a nice way to gauge what the 50+ year old demographic is thinking about the neighborhood...
The MSA Infrastructure Committee has been very productive during my time at the U. They moved to expand the hours of Gopher Chauffeur and pressed Parking and Transportation Services hard about bus problems...
TV stations have never been very good at covering the Minneapolis police.
In 2014, in what Vanity Fair dubbed as “…the Most Pathetic News Story of the Week,” a retired police officer told KSTP...
This week, the NCAA Board of Governors did something reasonable. It voted to start allowing compensation for athletes for the use of their name, likeness and image. This means that athletes can get paid...
Jamie Long, a Minneapolis attorney with experience in environmental policy, had an incredibly easy time getting his job at the U's Energy Transition Lab this year.
He got to write much of his own job description,...
It's extremely difficult to find an affordable unit in Minneapolis.
That will continue to be true, at least in the University area, because of a vague, self-inflicting exemption in a recent inclusionary...
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a special envoy on climate change for the United Nations and the former mayor of New York City, came to Minneapolis with an announcement last fall. With Minneapolis Mayor...
Around this time last year, The Daily Cardinal, a student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reported that voter turnout for student elections at Madison had declined to around six percent.
Just...
The Monday morning of election week at the University of Minnesota, Caroline Pavlecic, an MSA at-large representative running for another term, went to the All Campus Election Commission (ACEC) website...
Like most freshmen, Blake Paulson didn't know how to plan his classes his first semester and ended up with night classes.
He also wanted to join the Minnesota Student Association that semester.
"Student...
These last couple years, I've had a recurring thought: why can't anybody with a lot of money just do nothing with it? It seems like everyone, deserving or undeserving, who's had the kiss of fortune on...
Most cities don't do this, but for nearly a century the New York City Police Department has tipped off photographers nearly anytime anybody interesting has found themselves being taken to the station in...
This week, the Minneapolis Charter Commission will consider a new citizen proposal. The charter commission is similar to a constitutional convention in that it considers petitions and ideas to change the...
This weekend, one of the world’s youngest hedge fund managers was here in Minneapolis. He was tweeting to his more than 100,000 followers about the city, its people and his investigation into the city....
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a column about a recent report on financial aid that was to be presented at the Board of Regents February meeting. The report was informative, and I am glad our regents got...
Although I haven't been going to the University of Minnesota's Recreational and Wellness Center, I've been jumping a lot the past couple weeks.
I've been jumping from the bus to the curb, praying...
At its monthly meeting on Thursday, the Board of Regents will hear the presentation for and discuss a report entitled, "Holistic View of Student Financial Burden." I stumbled on it while skimming the board's...
Coming into college, my vision of what my four years would be like was something like Vampire Weekend's first album, "Vampire Weekend." I pictured myself as someone who would frequently be in rooms like...
As our University goes through a transition period between President Eric Kaler and incoming president Joan Gabel, students, faculty and administrators — everyone who makes the University what it is...
In law enforcement, community and community-oriented policing have become somewhat buzzwords. Their sudden spike in use makes you wonder — was the community not involved in policing before? But the word...
Since the first draft of the Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive plan was released, it's been a rollercoaster of a ride. The City's plan, required to be created by the State every ten years, is solely guidance...
I saw Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham give a lecture at Northrup Auditorium this month, as part of the Humphrey School's Distinguished Carlson Lecture series. It was a packed house. The median...
This week, following in the tradition of many men and women who have made mountains of money on Wall Street, a billionaire made a terrible financial decision with a lot of money.
Michael Bloomberg,...
In an October article in the Minnesota Daily, Wally's Falafel and Hummus owner Wally Sakallah detailed some ambitious plans for the Chatime's storefront. Chatime would leave for a spot near Tim Hortons...
On the map, the Minnesota River, our state's namesake river, makes a slow and steady descent southeast through the farmland of southern Minnesota. At the Mankato, the river rises sharply north towards...
“The real test is going to be Election Day,” David Hogg, a founder of March for Our Lives, said to The Washington Post while doing an event in Minneapolis. “Young people and Americans in general...
"Every business tries to stay here as long as possible," said Jason Davis, co-owner of Dinkytown Optical, a business that has been operating in its namesake neighborhood for 45 years. The shop just finished...
Developers have had their eyes on Dinkytown for a long time. One Minnesota Daily article from 2013 reported that "more than half of Dinkytown property owners surveyed by the Minnesota Daily have been approached...
A couple weeks after high school graduation, I loaded up my car with way too many useless things and too little of what I actually needed and headed up north. I was going to be summer camp counselor.
It...
“Right now, there is a huge growth pressure in the city of Minneapolis and the entire region. Folks are coming and they need places to live. If we don’t make space for them, they are going to go where...
With a prestigious professorship at New York University, Avital Ronell was described as a "star" in the academic world. Decades of interesting work in comparative literature had given her an impressive...
At the University of Minnesota's Board of Regents meeting, University administrators presented their progress on the new Saint Paul Strategic Facilities Plan. The plan is bold and needed because as the...
A recent New York Times article took a fascinating look at an interesting Harvard employee, Martha Bonilla. She came into the country illegally, hiding under a pile of bananas in a truck. Now, Ms. Bonilla...
Last fall, when orange leaves started to make their gentle tumble out of the trees, I visited the office of a favorite professor to discuss an assignment I was having trouble with. I took my place in the...
The NCAA decided it was going to get serious about college basketball's slow moral collapse. It created a commission, headed by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, to propose solutions to college...
Minneapolis Public Schools has a school discipline problem.
Black students made up 40 percent of all students across the district in the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years, but were subject to an astonishing...
There is a relatively little-known crisis experienced by Minnesota women.
For many years, Native American women across the state and country have faced extreme levels of violence. Many women have disappeared,...
Since the shooting that occurred at their school, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas teens have showed a remarkable amount of bravery and courage. They’ve founded a national movement and helped orchestrate...
Applying to college was one of the most difficult things I have ever done. My parents never went to college or university, leaving me on my own to decipher all the acronyms and archaic processes. I was...
On March 30, thousands of Liberian Americans across Minnesota and the United States could live their last day as legal residents. Unless they want to face the risk of deportation, those who are not yet...
Last month, several Dinkytown businesses located to the right of the Varsity Theater on the corner of 13th Avenue Southeast were informed by their landlord that they would have to leave by mid-summer....
Political scientists have noticed that since the 1970s, Americans have begun to cluster into communities that share similar values and lifestyle preferences. It makes sense; if given the choice, someone...
We almost never see politics in its actual form, with its maneuvering, backroom deals, and “half-truthing.” For the most part, we see it in its derivatives — the spokesperson blabbering on CNN, Twitter...
“It’s painful. I didn’t know what to expect. I still really don’t,” is how Anna Chambers described her ongoing rape trial. Last year, two New York cops sexually assaulted her after taking her...
The new Snapchat update came for us like a jaguar in a "Planet Earth" clip stalking its prey in the jungle. We knew it was coming — Snapchat announced it November last year — just not when exactly...
If you’ve heard about the Turning Point USA club on campus, it's probably from this fall’s vandalism incident, when various conservative and non-partisan student groups had their Washington Avenue...
The “customer stories” page of an email marketing platform boasts about the University of Minnesota athletics department’s use of its software to achieve “championship-level results.” The testimonial...
For my friend Khalid Hammami, a finance and management information systems junior, the Undergraduate Business Career Center at Carlson has been an important tool in his preparation for a career in consulting....
All across the country, people are finding bodies in cars, on the streets and in bedrooms. They are of many ages, genders and social classes and they are the latest victims of our country’s opioid epidemic....
The University of Minnesota is giving me a decent amount of financial support this year to pay my tuition bill. A mix of grants and scholarships is allowing me to walk across the Washington Avenue Bridge...
In high school, I loved sitting in the back of the classroom. I could blend in with my overcrowded class and not be the first person my teacher saw every period. There was also the added benefit of being...
Most of us at the University of Minnesota don’t pay large amounts of taxes. We aren’t making enough money to be taxed much, and we are “broke” college kids dedicated to our education. We aren’t...
The University of Minnesota has a unique educational monopoly on the state. Unlike states of similar size like Colorado, Oregon and South Carolina, the University is the state’s sole high-activity research...
High up in the glass towers of downtown, where you’ve always wished you could take a flex pic for your Instagram, Minneapolis corporate executives and developers have been in the midst of a summers long...
I still remember the first Vine I ever made. It was on one of those mid-summer days in high school where all the fun activities you planned sitting in class had been done a million times and the late summer...
College athletics can be very fun. Standing with thousands of other people and hollering letter after letter of the “Minnesota" in the Minnesota Rouser with your fellow Gophers after a touchdown is an...
Walking on Huron Boulevard in Stadium Village reminds me of my middle school days, when I use to foolishly traverse suburban highways by foot. There is no parking lane that insulates you from traffic like...
For about two months this summer, hackers snooped around the computer systems of Equifax, one of the three major credit reporting bureaus, obtaining nearly half the U.S. population’s names, dates of...
Luxury apartments are rising near the University of Minnesota. The Hub on Washington Avenue is slowly gaining its outer sci-fi shell, day by day. A 25-story tower behind the Pillsbury Mill will potentially...
Amazon recently announced that it has begun an international search for the city that will house its second headquarters (HQ2). The company has resorted to building HQ2 because its original headquarters’...
While we labor to create the rest of our lives here, the Mississippi River beats incessantly against the concrete shoes of the Washington Avenue Bridge. While I stress about making that critical friend...
I have been to many special places in Minnesota.
I’ve sat in the bed of my friend’s pickup, looking up at the eternal glow of the midnight stars, as he hurtled the little Ford around S-shaped...
