For more pleasant facts about Minnesota see: https://globalminnesota.org/exchanges/welcome-visitors/minnesota-at-a-glance/

Before we breathed politics like oxygen, there were helpful Minnesota winter drivers, people making casseroles at church funerals, teachers and professors who loved teaching, nurses and doctors who want to save lives, considerate drivers and easy smiles. Remember?

this is the 3rd time I’ve tried to have my comments posted here. I grew up a few houses from the ringos and the number of days I went to Alexs’ house (ringo’s younger brother) and found Nathan gooning his lil friend to images of Mrs Ringo was outrageous. The dude could fill buckets with that small shrimp. Some reason Beth Hawkins won’t let my experiences growing up across from Nathan Ringo be published?

Andy, almost all urban areas with ride shares like Lyft and Uber are experiencing the same conflicts between contract employment and fair wages for all. San Francisco seems to have upped the ante. Minneapolis has now enacted an ordinance that applies to ride shares; Uber and Lyft say they’re leaving. That opens the door for newer, more innovative, leaner entrepreneur types, MOOV here in Minneapolis is one. We’ll come through this crisis and the workers will be better off.

But it did pass several years later according to a Google search I did on the question:

Effective Aug. 1, 2019, new laws allow cities to set speed limits on certain city streets, after conducting an internal traffic study.

Letters to the editor and longer commentaries, by contrast, require thought and care. And while they still can be emotional rants, they are usually tempered by the medium—and benefit from editorial decisions. There is a difference, after all, between journalism and random gossip. Sometimes it’s been hard to tell the difference since the rise of online commentary.

And I’ve often wondered about the resources needed to provide this forum, used by relatively few regular participants. Makes perfect sense to me that a nonprofit, with limited resources, would direct them elsewhere. As a longtime donor to Minnpost, I’m very pleased that the editors took a serious look at this and came to a sensible, thoughtful conclusion. Shows me the organization is in good hands and my dollars are being well spent.

https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2023/10/why-a-costly-college-education-should-not-be-the-only-path-to-career-success/

Allowing Community Voices Opinion pieces without feedback on whose community and whose opinion voices is a big mistake by the MINNPOST editors that can still be fixed.

That would be reasonable and practical, and therefore, is a no-go for the thin-skinned editorial board of MinnPost.