Ethan Osten

"kiddos" just replicates the trajectory of its earlier equivalent, "kids"

That system changed several times in the 1970s, ending in an August primary/November general system that was finally abolished by ranked choice.

So safe to say it was the shortest successful campaign effort since the 19th century.

Before the introduction of primary elections after 1900, the campaign schedule was 1-2 months: conventions/nominations in March/April, election in early May. Primaries stretched it to a five-month process: nominations in January, primary in March, general in late May.

Low disk space

Barbara Gelb's book on their relationship (So Short a Time, 1973) is a rewarding read too.

spreadsheet showing numbers of bicycles traveling in east or westbound direction, noting if they were electric and whether they had passengers.

Marshall hill bike count results from Montrose Place counting point between 6-9:30 a.m. today: 60 eastbound; 58 westbound, 118 total. Of these, approximately 24 electric (20%). We saw 2 passengers (1 toddler, 1 v. fluffy dog). 40 more bikes turned b4 our spot.

Not bad for a remote work Friday!

They're all in this 1940 WPA writer's project book: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc...

That was still the story when I was at Bard 2009-13.

And by the time Rice Street wraps up in a few years, every major road in the North End (except Maryland) will have bike lanes or a bike path... Dale, Front, Western, Como, Rice, Jackson, Arlington, Wheelock, even Larpenteur. It's becoming the most bikeable neighborhood in the city.

Really excited for the two-way cycletrack planned for Robert (Kellogg to Chavez) in the MnDOT project 2028-29.

Looking south on Rice Street from Iowa, showing the new shared use path constructed on the west side and pedestrian crossing improvements.

Looking down Rice Street toward Arlington.

BRT stations under construction at Arlington.

Getting close on the north end of Rice Street.

Deep fried olives. Shockingly good.

I look forward to the Strib asking us to define the exact boundary between "Summit Hill" and "Cathedral Hill"

Shared use path paving starting soon on Rice Street phase 1. The second photo shows the width of the new asphalt path; third photo from Google Street View circa 2019 for comparison.

Bike lane with a white painted icon of a person riding a bike. Flexible bollards are to the left of the lane between painted white lines. Another bike lane with bollards is on the other side of the road. Ramsey County Library's Roseville building is in the background.

Roseville added bollards to protect the bike lanes on part of Hamline Avenue. They're between County Road B and County Road B2, which includes the library and the entrances to / exits from Highway 36.

Lovely morning out on Keller Lake! Did you know Ramsey County Parks and Recreation has self-service paddle share? Learn more: www.ramseycounty.us/residents/pa...

Rice Street looking north from Wheelock Parkway

Rice Street looking south from Wheelock Parkway. New signals and pedestrian medians visible.

Looking west across Rice Street at Wheelock.

Looking south on Rice Street from Wheelock where the trail will go.

Steady progress on Rice Street phase 1. The first photo really shows how much narrower the new roadway will be.

The other thing to understand is that the municipal Farmer's Market was partly in response to the 1934 Teamsters strike. The anti-union folks owned the commercial produce markets in the Warehouse District and the municipal market gave pro-union farmers/truckers an alternative.

Interesting use of a light industrial building that was not too long ago attached to a house(?)

Hard to square this with the number of vacant and underused commercial buildings everywhere in St. Paul. Maybe the lesson is that these old buildings aren't suitable for business needs anymore, but then the limits on building new are probably the biggest thing encouraging creative adaptive reuses.

1956 depiction of early plans for the current Interstate 35W/94 interchange. Caption: "THINK! will be the byword when you hit this Minneapolis 'pretzel' which engineers call merely an interchange. It will be just south of the Auditorium in that city, dividing traffic on the east-west and the north-south freeways. Direction signs will be placed far ahead of traffic division points."

THINK!

It truly is remarkable, and many years in the making! Lots of new pedestrian medians too.

Como/Front (ish) to Highway 36

Brand-new bike lane on Dale Street already getting use.

The problem is that they did a half job, removing the antennas but not the platform underneath. You can see how it subtly changes the profile of the building against the sky even without the crown.

Interested in regional biking routes in Ramsey County? Come listen to me present at the next Active Living Ramsey Communities meeting.

June 9th, 2025
2:30 - 4:30 PM
Register via Zoom:

me rn

I was once told by a local political figure something to the effect that "the thing to do whenever someone does you wrong in politics is to squeeze that feeling into a little black dot and put it in your heart. That way, it's always there when you need it."

Complicated by the apparent imitation in Propertius when he wrote "Smintheia prima suis miserum me cepit vestulis"

What's the "report" cited on the page pictured?