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Designing neighborhoods to fend off heat waves

Designing neighborhoods to fend off heat waves

A group of researchers and urban planners met this week to discuss how to design a neighborhood in Minneapolis to make it more resilient to extreme heat.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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From private collection to lending library: Quatrefoil grows as resource for LGBT community

From private collection to lending library: Quatrefoil grows as resource for LGBT community

A new exhibition opens at the Hennepin History Museum in Minneapolis Thursday night on the Quatrefoil Library, one of just a few LGBT lending libraries in the nation. Over the past 30 years, it's grown into a research center and community space.
by Marianne Combs

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Photos: A look back at the relentless heat wave of July 1936

Photos: A look back at the relentless heat wave of July 1936

This week marks the 80th anniversary of the start of Minnesota's worst heat wave. It was so bad that many people chose to sleep outside.
by Nancy Yang

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Photos: A small-town Fourth in the middle of St. Paul

Photos: A small-town Fourth in the middle of St. Paul

It's nearly 70 years old, runs five blocks long and lasts about a half an hour. But the neighbors of St. Anthony Park wouldn't miss their July 4 parade for anything.
by Peter Cox

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A reprieve for Lowry Grove: 11th-hour bid might save mobile home park

A reprieve for Lowry Grove: 11th-hour bid might save mobile home park

The Lowry Grove mobile home park in St. Anthony was set to be sold to a developer. But some of the park's residents rallied to save it. With the help of an affordable-housing nonprofit, they just might have done it.
by Tracy Mumford

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One resident's $6 million, Hail Mary plan to save her mobile home park

One resident's $6 million, Hail Mary plan to save her mobile home park

Antonia Alvarez has spent a decade advocating for immigration, transportation and housing rights. Now, with the impending closure of St. Anthony's Lowry Grove mobile home park, the fight has become personal. She has until Saturday to raise $6 million to save the neighborhood.
by Tracy Mumford

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