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The Cities Blog

Anyone lose a pair of pigs? Minneapolis asks

Anyone lose a pair of pigs? Minneapolis asks

Minneapolis police and animal control officers apprehended two piglets this morning after they were found wandering near the intersection of 23rd Ave. and Emerson Ave. N. The pigs, a buff and brown male and a cream-colored female, are estimated to be about 5 months old. “Did anyone lose a pair of pigs today?” the city Read more →
by Curtis Gilbert

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Car-sharing options grow in Minneapolis

Car-sharing options grow in Minneapolis

There are now 145 cars available to share in Minneapolis, with hundreds more expected in the coming months thanks to a partnership between car-sharing companies and the city.
by Jon Collins

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What’s really being said on the Terrance Franklin video?

What’s really being said on the Terrance Franklin video?

A lawyer for Terrance Franklin’s family says he has a recording of Franklin’s voice captured minutes before police shot and killed him in the basement of a Minneapolis home this spring. This is the second time attorney Michael Padden has drawn attention to a cell phone video recorded across the street from the home where…
by Curtis Gilbert

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Why, yes, that IS your father’s ride: return of the longboard skateboard

Why, yes, that IS your father’s ride: return of the longboard skateboard

You’ve probably seen them. You’ve probably thought to yourself, ‘what is a grown man doing riding a skateboard down the street?’ Welcome back the longboard, the terrestrial cousin to the surfboard, a toy that grew up and got a mortgage. “It’s guys that used to skateboard as a kid, and they want to get back…
by Tim Nelson

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Autopsy report: Franklin shot 10 times

A detailed autopsy report from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office obtained by MPR News found nine bullets entered Terrance Franklin’s body, and one bullet grazed his scalp. Most of the shots hit him in the head and neck. Yet the Minneapolis police department’s account of the shooting said Franklin was shot eight times by Read more →
by Brandt Williams

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Don’t panic, Mpls – gunshots tonight are only a test

Don’t panic, Mpls – gunshots tonight are only a test

If you hear a barrage of gunfire in Minneapolis tonight, you probably don’t need to hit the deck. Police will be blasting off rounds in two neighborhoods to calibrate the ShotSpotter system that allows the department pinpoint when and where shots are fired in the city. Here’s more detail from the Minneapolis Police Department: The…
by Curtis Gilbert

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More Mpls. residents commute by bike, on foot

More Mpls. residents commute by bike, on foot

The number of people biking and walking to work in Minneapolis continued its steady increase again in 2012, according to a survey from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey that was released this week.
by Jon Collins

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Hodges campaign budget deficit started in March

Hodges campaign budget deficit started in March

Mayoral candidate Betsy Hodges’ campaign has been running a budget deficit for more than half the year, according to an MPR News analysis of campaign finance reports filed earlier this month. The campaigns have reported their fundraising and expenditures through almost the end of August, and those data show Hodges’ campaign has been spending more…
by Curtis Gilbert

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