Water is integral to life in Minneapolis. We’re home to the biggest waterfall on the Mississippi River – the waterway that gave life to the mills that put our city on the map. Minneapolis is at the northernmost point of shipping on the Mississippi. Who reading this hasn’t enjoyed our riverfront or spent time by our [...]
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I was so excited Wednesday to join Alan Goldbloom, President of Children’s Hospitals and Clinics to celebrate the completion of the first phase of the hospital’s largest expansion ever, with the opening of a new Children’s Specialty Center on Chicago Avenue in south Minneapolis. As we work to create jobs and improve our streets, we [...]
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This coming Monday, June 29, Mayor Rybak will visit a city-funded summer program that uses a community garden to teach youth about local food production and sustainability. The program is a collaboration between the City of Minneapolis’ youth employment programs and a new initiative called Homegrown Minneapolis that seeks to expand the growth, sales and [...]
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Travel and Leisure magazine has named Minneapolis one of the world’s top biking cities. The magazine chose ten cities worldwide for its list, with just three in the United States. Minneapolis was listed among the elite group of bike-friendly cities in the world because it has built an infrastructure that promotes bicycling for both transportation and [...]
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On several occasions, Governor Pawlenty has made false statements that were critical of Minneapolis and Mayor Rybak’s fiscal discipline. At a time when the State budget is again in chaos, Governor Pawlenty should not be giving financial advice, especially when that advice is based on misinformation. Minneapolis’ fiscal prudence stands up against the State’s any day. [...]
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For another month in a row, the April unemployment rate in Minneapolis continues to be lower than the metro region, lower than the state, and lowerthan the federal unemployment rates. April unemployment in Minneapolis was 6.9%, metro area unemployment was 7.5%, state unemployment was 8.2%, and the national unemployment was 8.6%. This continues a trend The Mayor [...]
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Today Governor Pawlenty made his choices about how to cut the state budget. I deeply disagree with the governor because his choices will hurt many people. The governor has offered no plan for putting people to work, only for cutting jobs during a tough economy, and has offered no strategy for fixing a broken state [...]
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The following letter was submitted to and published in today’s Star Tribune: A June 12 Star Tribune article “Federal police aid less than Minneapolis expected” paints an inaccurate and incomplete picture about my commitment to public safety, especially as we respond to the significant funding cuts coming as a result of the state’s budget deficit. [...]
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There are a lot of tough parts of my job, but nothing as hard as crawling through a smokey building, airtank on my back, trying to find a body.
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Minneapolis is breaking ground on the most environmentally sound public building ever built by a city in Minnesota. A new Public Works facility at Hiawatha and 26th Street S., a long-time eyesore for local neighbors, has been a public works facility since the 1920’s housing, among other things, an asphalt plant. The new facility will be [...]
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