Профиль

BREAKING: gophers are running amok in Prospect Park

So today we've reached the entirely predictable phase of the media cycle and simply writing off St Paul Mayor Kaohly Her's appalling behavior as "locker room talk"

#OnThisDay July 31 1910: Split Rock Lighthouse opens, considered among the most picturesque in the United States. The lighthouse was built in response to the great Mataafa Storm on November 27-28 1905, when 29 ships were lost on @lakesuperior.bsky.social

Poor St. Paul just can't get a break this week. Pearson's started in Minneapolis before moving to St Paul, making the American classic "Salted Nut Roll" a truly Twin Cities enterprise. Goodbye Pearson's, you deserve an homage 🧵

Great thread by @mollycoleman.bsky.social on the scandal. I find this part particularly shocking, since it's been going on since at least April and therefore indicts all four Assistant Mayors appointed by Kaohly Her in a coverup. This is seriously damaging to St Paul.

#OnThisDay July 29 1927: A dust explosion and fire destroys the Crown Elevator at Second Ave SE and Ninth Street @eastbankmpls.bsky.social, consuming 25,000 bushels of grain and causing over $5M damage in today's dollars. 4 people are hurt when a responding firetruck strikes a parked car.

In other St Paul news: #OnThisDay July 29 1887, a streetcar is struck by a runaway wagon on Walnut Street, causing the car to lose control and rocket to the bottom of Ramsey Hill. Surprisingly, given the hill's steep incline, there are no injuries among passengers or pedestrians.

The Mayor of St Paul arriving to work this morning.

BREAKING: Selection of the new mayor of Saint Paul will commence at Black Hart bar. Dates to be announced.

#OnThisDay July 27 1972: Masked gunman abduct Virginia "Ginny" Piper, wife of a prominent Minneapolis investment banker, from her suburban home. She's soon released after a $1 million ransom. No one has served prison time for the crime, and the ransom has never been recovered. It remains a mystery.

#OnThisDay July 26 1944: The 5000th M-8 "Greyhound" armored car rolls off the line at the Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant in St. Paul, Minnesota. This plant produced the vast majority of M8's deployed in World War II.