JAMES LILEKS ON MINNEAPOLIS: “I will note that he said he saw the residents of the apartment building come out in the morning to walk their dogs, and they had to pick them up so the dogs’ paws wouldn’t get cut by the glass. He said the residents came out with their own small brooms and dustpans and helped tidy up…So the good outnumber the bad, as we knew; and the good have lost all patience with the bad, as you might suspect. Short-term, though — who’s going to invest down here? Who’s going to come downtown to eat at a restaurant, when you don’t know what will happen outside? Who’ll walk to the parking ramp after dark when someone was just shot there? Who’ll want to come back to their office when it’s safer to be at home?”

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