A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some hipster soccer fan from Brooklyn stayed at a hotel in Minneapolis and was not impressed<\/a> <\/p>
The beginning of the thread is pretty funny. He complains that the Hilton Gardens isn’t really downtown because it is between a highway and a vacant building. (Surprise-that is what our downtown is like these days). In the next tweet, he complains that the hotel seems to be full of people “waiting until things with the police cooled down or their wives took them back.” (Another surprise, I guess, because this seems to also be something many people are saying about downtown Minneapolis these days. It’s just not that #vibrant).<\/p>
Sorry the guy got some big bed bug welt. I’m also sorry that the bed bug made the news but the deterioration of our Twin Cities, with all it’s vacant buildings, vacant lots, and ongoing crime<\/a> do not really make the news in any significant way.\u00a0<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Stay with me, here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minneapolis has always had an inferiority complex re New York. It even adopted “The Mini-Apple” as its marketing slogan in the ’80s (during the later years of NYC’s nadir in the Dinkins years, for crying out loud). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If New York media figures start dunking on Minneapolis? That <\/em>might get the administration’s attention. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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