In early March, the Minneapolis City Council passed the “Pause Evictions, Save Lives” (PESL) ordinance, a measure that would extend the pre-eviction notice period from 30 to 60 days. It was then vetoed by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. On March 26, an attempt by the Council to override the veto failed. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, Frey’s administration wanted to fund rental assistance with Local Affordable Housing Aid to avoid impacts on taxpayers.

The 97th annual Celebrate Northeast Parade, long said to be the second oldest in Minnesota, will have a new organizer this year. The Northeast Minneapolis Lions Club has agreed to take over the overall running of the parade, this year scheduled for Tuesday, June 16. For the past two decades, […]

The new Minnesota Music Archive (MMA) is, in a word, ambitious. It is intended to honor and preserve all of Minnesota’s music — from “polka to hip-hop, metal to country, classical to Tejano, jazz to Indigenous traditions” — through a searchable, digital repository at www.minnesotamusicarchive.org.

Changes are coming to Quincy Street NE, but its future is still leading to disagreement. At an April 8 open house at the Northeast Park Recreation Center, Minneapolis representatives presented their final proposal for a significant renovation of a three-block stretch of Quincy Street, from Broadway to 15th Avenue NE.

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrived in Minnesota in early January — as part of Operation Metro Surge — communities across the state organized in an effort to keep one another informed of ICE activity and safe from possible danger.
From such efforts emerged 3D printed whistles.

With signs of spring settling in and Earth Day on April 22, residents will soon be refreshing their flower beds, awaiting new growth and blooms along their neighborhood streets. But over at Webster School, numerous flower beds represent a symbol of how renewable energy, sustainability and gardening can come together as one.

Across the river from Northeast, at the far end of the Stone Arch Bridge, a project to restore a part of the riverfront to its natural state will begin this year. The St. Anthony West Neighborhood Association on April 9 heard a presentation on the Owamniyomni Project, a Dakota-led effort to reclaim a section of the river from the industrialization that built Minneapolis.

“Big Railroad Magnate Dies,” read the headline in the Feb. 4, 1909 Daily Alaskan. From Skagway, Alaska, to New York City, newspapers announced the death of Thomas Lowry, the man who had just as much to do with the development of the northern portion of Northeast Minneapolis and Columbia Heights in the late 19th century as Pierre Bottineau had along the riverfront in the 1850s. The outpouring of respect and love was remarkable for a man of humble beginnings.