In his annual State of the City speech, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey spun positive against the backdrop of a struggling downtown and rising property taxes.
Council members meeting as a committee did not lend their support to Mayor Jacob Frey's proposal to turn the burned-out police station into a voter center; the mayor says he'll move forward with plans anyway.
Some believe the two ridesharing companies are unlikely to roll out of Minneapolis. However, they did pulled out of Austin, Texas for a year until the state governor stepped in to create uniform statewide rules.
The owner of a Somalian mall in Minneapolis has banned the city's Jewish mayor Jacob Frey from the shopping complex for vetoing a ceasefire resolution in Israel.
The Minneapolis City Council has overridden Mayor Jacob Frey's veto of a resolution calling for an end to the Israel-Hamas war and a cease-fire in Gaza.
"When they stay home, sitting on their couch with their nasty cat blanket, diddlin' on their laptop. If they do that for a few months, you become a loser. It's a study. We're not losers, are we?"
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey urged residents at a council meeting to return to work in the downtown, saying remote work would ultimately turn them into "a loser."
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said it's ridiculous to think he was serious when he said in a speech to the Minneapolis Downtown Council's annual meeting that people who work at home are losers.
A veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council approved the symbolic resolution last week, so an override of Mayor Jacob Frey's veto is possible.
Minneapolis City Council voted against a $15 million incentive package to hire and retain police officers that was backed by Mayor Jacob Frey and city police chief Brian O'Hara.