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Big snowfall forecast for southern Minnesota Sunday night 6 or more inches expected in the southwest; metro area will get less.  March 13, 2021 — 5:31pm Text size Copy shortlink: Its been an unseasonably warm couple of weeks, but dont put away the snowblower for the season just yet. After another balmy day — Sundays high will be near 50 in the Twin Cities — a winter storm is expected to dump upward of 6 inches of snow in parts ...

Why did Minneapolis tear down its biggest train station? Minneapolis two train stations met very different fates in the 1970s.  March 5, 2021 — 9:05am Related coverage Studying abroad in Europe many years ago, Marcus Nielson took note of the central role train stations played in city design there. When he returned to Minneapolis, he realized something was missing. "I always kind of wondered why Minneapolis didnt keep a lot of their train infrastructure," Niels...

Bird Song of the Day 26 minutes (!) of a Snow Oil foraging and feeding its young. Impressive dedication. #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added these daily charts from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching…. (A reader asked the source of the data: Johns Hopkins CSSE. DIVOC-91 does allow other data sets to be used, like Our World in Data and The Atlantic, and where they provide visualizations similar to ...

Scientists look to Twin Cities sewers to find COVID variants The hunt for new strains locally is piggybacking on long-running COVID wastewater surveillance.  February 15, 2021 — 5:34am Text size Copy shortlink: Some of the best evidence for detecting early signs of new COVID strains in Minnesota is being flushed right down the toilet. But scientists at the Metropolitan Council and the University of Minnesotas Genomics Center have s...

Modernist Minneapolis building that replaced skid row destined for demolition Decision reverses preservation panels vote to protect 1969 site.  February 12, 2021 — 10:38am Text size Copy shortlink: A modernist downtown Minneapolis building that some argued was worth preserving will soon meet the wrecking ball following a City Council vote Friday. Developers want to replace the half-century-old building at 21 N. Washington Av. with ...

Copy shortlink: Both Minneapolis and St. Paul draw their drinking water from the Mississippi River. Curious Minnesota host Eric Roper paid a visit to Minneapolis water treatment campus in Fridley to understand the complex process that makes river water safe to drink. Click here for the accompanying Curious Minnesota article on this topic. If you cannot see the podcast audio below, click here to listen. More from Star Tribune