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Minneapolis is at a crossroads. Real progress isn’t just about new policies—it’s about the mindset to follow through. This week’s Better Minneapolis newsletter challenges our elected leaders to focus on results over rhetoric. It’s time to prioritize action over ideology.
If the medium is the message (McLuhan), the inability to read a book is sending you an S.O.S.
This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland
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“We cannot just ignore the president’s desires,” - JD Vance yesterday.
Yes. We. Can!
I just got back from teaching my class and every word of it this is true, this is no exaggeration. He is writing from an American university but it is exactly the same in Canada.
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“The Church is not a social club that changes with the culture. The Church is the Bride of Christ, and she speaks the truth whether the world likes it or not.”
—Cardinal Arinze
It’s official! After completing a one-year partial term, I’ve been reappointed for a full four-year term to Austin‘s Zoning & Platting Commission. I look forward to continuing to help make Austin a city that builds!
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Are you a resident of Ward 10 in Minneapolis? In today’s newsletter I interview the city council candidate Lydia Millard.
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Can confirm. As I reach my waning middle age and don’t find myself magically evolving into a virtuous soul beyond avarice and pettiness (I had always kinda assumed that was a natural part of the aging process), my scurry of grandchildren (nine, ages four to two months) is a constant balm that I apply as often as possible.
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This is what a great ceiling looks like.
St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków, Poland (1347)
A small child slipped through the White House fence before being intercepted by the U.S. Secret Service. One shows an armed agent carrying the toddler across the lawn before passing him to another agent and eventually back to his family “without incident.” There was no threat to security.
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Arches National Park in Utah 😍
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“Men are often called intelligent wrongly. Intelligent men are not those who are erudite in the sayings and books of the wise men of old, but those who have an intelligent soul and can discriminate between good and evil. They avoid what is sinful and harms the soul; and with deep gratitude to God they resolutely adhere by dint of practic…
There's nothing new here, writing about the video in particular. The reason we had the alcohol prohibition, one of the worst ideas ever, was of saloons on every corner of every street. That is only slight hyperbole. Husbands and fathers spent their wages every week at those saloons and starved the family. I can understand how women, newly empowered with voting rights, felt. And, why they pushed for such an extreme law that never works and only serves to create even more powerful problems, like organized crime.
But, at that time, the nation was on an upswing. Issues like addictions could easily be covered over by the upward momentum (writing now after the depression). Today, we are on a definite downswing; our rotten human nature is no longer masked but uncovered and raw. Nothing good is going on, and that is the problem.
