Former founding editor of @swvoicesmpls. [email protected] Bluesky account much more active :: https://teapaw.org/t.co/4QkydBPQK0 Last updated May 2025
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Hi. Do you like my Friday tweets about the weather? Are you compelled by my musings about hyper-local journalism? I also produce the Southwest Voices daily newsletter. It's full of news, community resources, and things to do in Minneapolis. It's FREE 👇
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Happy to answer questions about this one:
"Our Rescue loses potential contract with City of Minneapolis"
southwestvoices.news/posts/o…
My brother had me guess what time the sunset last night and I was delightfully wrong when I guessed 4:40 p.m. The sun is now setting at 4:55 p.m. This sunset was captured from Northeast Minneapolis where we watched the Packers lose (We are from Wisconsin). Sun is up at 7:48 a.m.
ALT A sunset with a lamp partially reflected from inside a house. A bare tree and a few houses on a snowy street are in the foreground.
Paul Douglas, a Twin Cities meteorologist, is no longer "bitching about cold fronts" due to "firenados" in L.A. That feels fair to me.
Hello! It seems like my audience has moved over to Bluesky, so most of my missives have too. You can find there at @phmelody
The War Horse is a small news org that focuses on soldiers and military culture. Discovered the org through The Daily Shown
In collaboration with @MotherJones : 20 years ago in Fallujah, we didn’t just kill the enemy. We destroyed parts of ourselves. thewarhorse.org/fallujah-fil…
community x community
BIG thanks to @birchbarkbooks for always keeping our lil FREE library stocked up with the latest & greatest!! 📚☕️
Melody Hoffmann retweeted
My team were the only journalists in the court yesterday for the hearing where the first suspect in the Nudieland mass shooting at a Minneapolis DIY punk show was sentenced, making @mprnews the 1st outlet with the story and the only with victim reaction mprnews.org/story/2024/11/12…
A possible glimpse into the future with time for solutions
Shopping carts are piling up at the Har Mar Roseville BRT stop.
The city's working with businesses to retrieve them, but is this a situation we're likely to see more as Metro Transit expands public transportation in suburban areas built for cars?
startribune.com/shopping-car…
God morgon! We are getting a glorious 9 hours and 42 minutes of sunlight today. She wakes up at 7:06 a.m. and goes to sleep at 4:47 p.m.
Gov. Tim Walz is speaking JUST TO US MINNESOTA at 2:30 p.m.
cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/g…
