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With a vote looming this week to reconsider Minneapolis' new rideshare minimum wage law, City Council President Elliott Payne and Council Members Katie Cashman and Aurin Chowdhury say they will ...
The Minneapolis City Council on Monday approved an agreement with the federal government in response to the murder of George Floyd that would require reforms within the city’s police department ...
At a Minneapolis City Council committee meeting this year about homeless encampments, Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw, who doesn't sit on the committee, spoke about how elected officials weren't ...
Council chambers in 1900 Council meeting in 2015. The Minneapolis City Council represents the city's thirteen districts called wards. The city has never had more than 13 wards, but at one time there were three representatives from each area, for a total of 39 members of the city council. The city council assumed its current size in the 1950s.
The Mayor of Minneapolis, currently a position held by a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), operates alongside the city council. The mayor's role was previously considered relatively weak compared to some other U.S. cities, but following a charter amendment in 2021, the mayor gained more power and the council was reduced to purely legislative duties.
Tempers at a Minneapolis City Council meeting on Thursday boiled over as a council member swore at an activist. Ward 4 Councilmember Jeremiah Ellison directed the curse word at longtime community ...
The station is operated by the Minneapolis Public Schools system and has been partnering since 1989 with the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT), providing traffic congestion reports for commuters in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. [2] KBEM also broadcasts live headliner performances from the Twin Cities Jazz Festival ...
The Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved an agreement on Monday with the federal government to overhaul the city's police training and use-of-force policies in response to the 2020 police ...