Frey vetoes Park Board action that booted State Patrol from office The Park Board voted 5-4 Wednesday to eject troopers from a shared cubicle. April 23, 2021 3:21pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Using a little-known power to undo Minneapolis Park Board resolutions, Mayor Jacob Frey on Friday vetoed the board s decision to banish the State Patrol from its headquarters.
Frey s action came less than 48 hours after the Park Board voted to terminate a lease agreement with the State Patrol giving troopers access to a cubicle at park headquarters to rest and recharge their equipment. This resolution is not about good policymaking or helping the people of Minneapolis. Rather, it is about political grandstanding that values optics over both the residents we serve and our interjurisdictional partnerships, Frey wrote in a letter admonishing the five park commissioners who voted for ejecting the State P
Minneapolis Park Board votes to expel State Patrol from shared office space
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From summer to fall 2020, a homeless encampment was based near the Lake Harriet bandshell. We went inside the homeless encampment, where a cityâs growing housing crisis took on faces and names.
The Lake Harriet homeless encampment
The Lake Harriet homeless encampment, photographed in late September, is across the street from the Lake Harriet Bandshell and overlooks the lake.
Editorâs Note: Some of the homeless persons in this article agreed to speak with only limited attribution. Others are highly vulnerable individuals. As a result, the editors decided to identify all only by their first names.