Well this would‘ve been a pretty big day on the ol’ beat www.cpr.org/2026/04/08/t...

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Not good news for Blue Line Extension in Mpls or Federal Blvd BRT in Denver

It took nearly a year, but I was able to get "Regional Transportation District" into a @startribune.com story www.startribune.com/transit-plan...

How about the "FrontRunner" oh wait

Congrats to Rep. @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social and family, who biked to the hospital last week and came back with baby Hans. Here's what she told me about the ride:

My feed is mostly Denver and Minneapolis folks and they may as well be on different planets rn

Wrote about a train 🥲 www.startribune.com/minnesotas-n...

🥲 Denverite still doing the lord’s work, aka filing records requests with DOTI

Winter also wrote or co-wrote just about every significant transpo bill over the last decade. Funding, speed cameras, etc. She was a giant in that world. What a terrible thing. Rest in peace, Senator.

Had tickets to Neko Case at First Ave and sold ‘em so I could see Sir Paul and I’ve gotta say the man delivered.

Reading up on MN transpo stuff and came across this series from editorial writer Steve Berg the Strib ran back in 2002. Lots of talk of induced demand, freeway blight, etc

NEW: Minnesota rebuffs DOJ demand for voter rolls, says feds don’t have legal right to it --> www.startribune.com/minnesota-re...

NEW: Republican bill in Congress would explicitly ban federal funding for train between Twin Cities and Duluth, gut grant program that would fund Blue Line extension www.startribune.com/republican-b...

Coming from Denver, where RTD was somewhere around 70-75% of pre-pandemic service and really didn’t want to talk about it, this is remarkable.

Former President Biden paid his respects to Melissa and Mark Hortman today at the Minnesota State Capitol. www.startribune.com/joe-biden-vi...

In reading and learning more about the Minnesota State Capitol for return-to-office stories and now security concerns, I was curious how the built environment around the cap has changed over the years. Folks, it's a lot. 1945 at left, current day at right

Gov Walz with some crispy comments at Rep. Jim Clyburn's South Carolina fish fry last night -->

A St. Louis Co Commissioner says USDOT staff told him last week that federal money was still coming for the Twin Cities-Duluth train. Then MN's four congressional Republicans asked USDOT to eliminate that $. “I’m extremely disappointed," the commissioner said. www.startribune.com/republicans-...

Moved to Minnesota just in time to see a men's pro sports team embarrass itself in the playoffs. Good to be home.

TIL that one of the first Buffalo Wild Wings (er, BW3) restaurants was in Steamboat Springs, Colorado www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org?a=d&d=STP198...

Pour one out for the RTD slow zone debacle, June 3, 2024 - May 27, 2025. denverite.com/2025/05/27/r...

Local newspaper man rides bus, has a good time (no, not me) www.startribune.com/roper-lets-c...

Rep. Emmer and the rest of the MN Republican Congressional delegation are targeting federal funding for three rail projects here: Northstar, NLX, and Blue Line Extension. Read their letter: emmer.house.gov/_cache/files...

Me, a reasonably experienced public policy reporter, trying to understand and follow the Minnesota legislature's process of debating and passing the state budget

NEW: Minnesota legislators are negotiating their $66 billion budget in private. "It's wrong," one legislator says. www.startribune.com/this-is-wron...

NEW: Minnesota legislators are eyeing up a $77 million cut to the planned Duluth-Twin Cities Northern Lights Express train as part of a bigger state budget deal. They say they'll still have enough to match federal dollars, but rail advocates are not happy. www.startribune.com/minnesota-le...

Learned today that two important stories I reported last year for @cprnews.bsky.social won an @rtdna.bsky.social Murrow award! This piece: www.cpr.org/2024/07/26/r...

Colorado’s gonna legalize kei trucks

God bless @kevinjbeaty.bsky.social, my favorite journalist

Good morning! I’m the new guy at @startribune.com where I’ll be covering politics. I grew up in MN/WI but spent the last decade in Denver writing about transportation and other stuff for @cprnews.bsky.social

Holy smokes that’s a lot of people.

Thank you to Bree and @paulkarolyi.bsky.social for having me on City Cast one last time to talk transpo in Denver 🥲 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

OK, *here's* my last piece for CPR/Denverite. Of note: the Broncos were part of the coalition pushing to keep the on/off ramps at 23rd. And they got what they wanted. denverite.com/2025/04/11/d...

New: Colorado bill would increase penalties for careless drivers who kill with their cars --> www.cpr.org/2025/04/10/c...

Hello! A little news from me. Next week is my last at @cprnews.bsky.social. Later this month I will join the @startribune.com's politics team covering the state Capitol. Denver, Colorado and CPR have all been wonderful to me since I arrived more than a decade ago. I'll miss this place dearly.

RTD and its largest union have reached a tentative deal -- ~15% raise over three years. Still needs to be approved by members and RTD's board. www.cpr.org/2025/04/02/r...

New: With federal funding looking shaky, Colorado will boost state spending for bus rapid transit projects --> www.cpr.org/2025/04/01/c...

Turns out Colfax BRT construction in Denver is actually *good* — in one specific way. denverite.com/2025/03/26/c...

Another new one from me: RTD said it would likely eliminate light rail slow zones by March. It didn't, and now says work will be done by end of May --> www.cpr.org/2025/03/21/r...

RTD light rail crash reports are kept secret. Now, a new law will make them public -->

Someone egged a cybertruck in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and wrote “nazi” and drew swastikas on it

One might call it induced demand www.cpr.org/2025/03/20/t...

Saw a Honda Acty in the wilds of uptown Denver yesterday

This could be such a great addition to southwest Denver, but sandwiching an outdoor soccer stadium between two major urban highways seems like an air quality disaster. denverite.com/2025/03/18/d...

If this is your illegally parked BMW in Denver’s Cap Hill, know that this King Soops truck driver is really really unhappy with you

"Mayday, mayday!" -- I tracked down the ATC audio from yesterday's American Airlines fire at DIA, and put together a quick timeline of what happened and when. www.cpr.org/2025/03/14/h...

Desperately want an SNL skit about e-bikes from the perspective of a kid who’s 18 inches from their parent’s butt

NEW: Internal memos show the U.S. GSA has "temporarily suspended" orders of zero-emission vehicles, stopped the installation of new EV charging stations, and ordered some existing stations to be shut down. For @npr.org: www.npr.org/2025/03/12/n...

NEW: Denver City Council Committee delayed a vote on the Peña Blvd project. Councilors say they've received hundreds of emails about it this week. From @zialcita.bsky.social w/ assist from me denverite.com/2025/03/05/p...