The Star Tribune and Pioneer Press will not run “Doonesbury” strips in their papers next week. The strips mock Texas’s mandate that women seeking abortions get a sonogram wand inserted in their vaginas.
According to columnist Jim Romenesko, Thursday’s strip contains the line, “By the authority invested in me by the GOP base, I thee rape.”
An upcoming Star Tribune statement will tell readers, “We have substituted Garry Trudeau’s ‘Doonesbury’ cartoon strip planned for this week with alternatives. We believe the original strips planned for this week regarding Texas abortion laws contained inappropriate material for family reading.”
The Pioneer Press will do something similar.
Metro Transit LRT getting a makeover
The Hiawatha light-rail line and future transit corridors are coming under one name and will be known by colors. In action taken Wednesday by the Metropolitan Council, the transit system will be known as “Metro” upon the opening of the Central Corridor line in 2014.
Each segment of the transit web will have its own color. The Hiawatha line that runs from downtown Minneapolis to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and the Mall of America will be called the Blue Line. The Interstate 35W bus rapid transit line will be Orange, while the one for Cedar Avenue will be the Red Line. The Central Corridor rail line connecting Minneapolis and St. Paul will be the Green Line. The system’s logo will change from a “T” to an “M.”
(via StarTribune.com)
(by mattymead)
St. Anthony Falls (by Mill City Times)
Weisman Art Museum (by Pete Sieger)
Tom got back from his holiday break in the Twin Cities, where this happens.
We hope you all had(/have) a wonderful holiday season!
So in Minnesota, the Twinkle Buses strike the Twinkle Bicycles with impunity?
Yes, and if you’re a snowman, you ride free. But there’s a catch…
Minneapolis, circa 1940 (by John McNab)
