Embracing Summer

For three decades, Steve Vasseur kept the mud pit at Hidden Beach ready and made a generation feel welcome. As the Mud Man enters hospice, neighbors reflect on a legacy of playfulness and community.

The Twin Cities just earned a Profile in Courage Award for standing up for immigrant neighbors. One night at a Lyndale Avenue construction meeting left me wondering whether that neighborliness comes with conditions.

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Commissioner seats are on the ballot this fall. Here is how Hennepin County’s $3.15 billion government works, and why it so often pays for things it cannot control.

The milfoil is thick. Algae collects along the shoreline. Boaters, paddlers, anglers and trail users wonder why the problem on Lake of the Isles never seems to go away. Some members of the Hill and Lake Press community have been seeking solutions from Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board for more than 17 years.