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May 1 was supposed to be a big day in Minneapolis for emerging ride-hail companies, with at least nine startups saying they would launch in the Twin Cities and claim the market share surrendered by Uber and Lyft over minimum pay rates for drivers set by the Minneapolis City Council. But nearly two months after […] The post Uber and Lyft alternatives say they will launch in Minneapolis soon … just not today appeared first on Minnesota Reformer. ....
April is living up to its billing as the windiest month of the year in the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota where peak gusts of 30 mph or stronger have been recorded on all but two days this month. The strongest gust recorded at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the official weather observation spot for the Twin Cities, was 50 mph on April 16, and there have been six days with . ....
Hertz is ending a popular car-rental program that had given scores of Uber and Lyft drivers across the Twin Cities a lifeline to continue driving for a living when their own vehicles broke down. "Since we are ending rideshare operations in the Twin Cities, Hertz is terminating their program and has reached out to drivers to ask them to start returning vehicles," said Uber spokesman Josh Gold . ....
Jeff Dubay, a former longtime sports radio personality in the Twin Cities, pleaded guilty Monday and was sentenced stemming from the latest of his many drug related run-ins with the law. Dubay, 56, admitted in Todd County District Court to a misdemeanor count of driving while under the influence of an illicit drug after a state trooper pulled him over in West Union on March 8. In exchange for . ....
It looked more like winter in the Twin Cities on Wednesday night and Thursday morning than it did in all of December and January, as the metro area saw the season's largest snowfall overnight. With temperatures expected to remain below freezing heading into the weekend, it appears winter has finally arrived. Yet public works officials in Minneapolis and St. Paul decided Thursday against . ....