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Tag: Suburbs

Economy

Economy keeps millennials locked out of home ownership

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 16, 2015, 9:45 AM Mar 16, 2015
14

Who’s going to live in the McMansions the parents of millennials are building in the Twin Cities suburbs? Apparently, it won’t be the millennials.
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Economy

The new suburban sprawl: poverty

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 4, 2014, 8:16 AM Aug 4, 2014
8

Poverty, quite obviously, is still a bigger problem in the city than the suburbs, but a new report from Brookings says the rate of poverty is increasing in suburbs more than cities. The number of “distressed” neighborhoods has grown by 78 percent in the 2000’s, with much of that increase coming in the suburbs. Of Read more →

Weather

Watering the lawn during a flood

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 20, 2014, 9:23 AM Jun 20, 2014
6

We’ve had about 20 inches of rain this month so far. And yet people are still pumping out the aquifers to water their lawns.
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Report: Mpls. to lose ground in battle against sprawl

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 17, 2014, 10:50 AM Jun 17, 2014
12

Minneapolis is the 12th most “walkable” city in the nation, a report released today shows. It’s one of the few national surveys in which the city finishes behind Cleveland (10). Read more →

Woman dies, nobody notices

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 11, 2014, 11:24 AM Mar 11, 2014
0

A woman died in her own garage, and life went on in her neighborhood without anyone wondering whatever happened to her. For six years. Read more →

People doing good · You Should Meet...

In suburban isolation, ‘cookie lady’ built community at the school bus stop

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 19, 2013, 1:13 PM Dec 19, 2013
156

The bus stop cookie lady has been shut down. Somebody blew the whistle on her. Read more →

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