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The Cities Blog

Police: stray bullet in Champlin home recklessly fired by noisy neighbor

A Champlin homeowner called police at 7:30 a.m. on Halloween morning to report a shooting.  The homeowner, identified in a complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court as M.C.D., showed police a bullet hole in the rear wall of his house.  According to the complaint, the bullet traveled through his house, passed through a few Read more →
by Brandt Williams

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Minneapolis demographics change; younger candidates shape new City Council

Minneapolis demographics change; younger candidates shape new City Council

An election in which three candidates in their 30s won Minneapolis City Council races made it clear that the city’s demographics are changing, and voters want younger, newer and more diverse representation. On Tuesday, Jacob Frey, 32, defeated two-term incumbent Diane Hofstede in Ward 3, and Lisa Bender, 35, defeated first-term City Council Member Meg Read more →
by Liala Helal

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Hodges declares victory in Minneapolis mayor’s race, but vote count continues

Hodges declares victory in Minneapolis mayor’s race, but vote count continues

Minneapolis City Council Member Betsy Hodges declared victory in the race to succeed outgoing mayor R.T. Rybak. Wednesday night after several rivals called her to concede. City election officials are still counting ballots, because of the city’s ranked choice voting system. Even so, Hodges sounded like she was transitioning to the mayor’s office. “Thank you Read more →
by Curtis Gilbert

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Why the Minneapolis mayor’s race is taking so long to count

It’s looking increasingly unlikely that Minneapolis will announce the winner of its hotly contested mayor’s race tonight, even though Mark Andrew has conceded and frontrunner Betsy Hodges is scheduled to address supporters at 8:30. The city has been counting votes for more than six hours, and Hodges remains more than 10,000 votes shy of the Read more →
by Curtis Gilbert

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Minneapolis ranked-choice voting gets a workout; poll officials report no major problems

Minneapolis ranked-choice voting gets a workout; poll officials report no major problems

Results from Election Day are coming into focus — Betsy Hodges holds a commanding lead in the Minneapolis mayor’s race — and so is the reaction to ranked-choice voting. About 40 percent of voters went to the polls in Minneapolis. City election officials say that’s more than the last two mayoral elections, and on par Read more →
by Matt Sepic

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