Al Hadler is on a mission to bring better coffee to the break room. Waite Park residents might know Hadler better as the guy behind the wheel of the big red Al’s Coffee van. The lifelong Northeaster opened a new business this summer in the former convenience store space on 33rd Avenue and Johnson Street.
I had an energizing conversation Thursday with the guys at Element Six Media, a green advertising and branding firm in Minneapolis that builds campaigns around sustainable earth materials and social media buzz. I’ll be unpacking my interview notes in the next couple of weeks for a story on The Line, but I wanted to share [...]
Way too much on my plate this morning, so I need to keep this brief. I’ll be unpacking my thoughts/notes today on last night’s Policy & A Pint on “Cities, Bicycling and the Future of Getting Around.” I’m also going to be talking/playing phone tag with a few more entrepreneurs I want to feature in [...]
A student group at the University of Minnesota wants the school to set a time line for phasing out the burning of coal on campus. Students Beyond Coal, part of a national Sierra Club campaign, will stage a rally today against the fuel, which is a major source of greenhouse gases and other pollution. “We [...]
Tommy Creal builds motorcycles that are meant to catch the eye’s attention. That effect is intensified here in this sprawling, basement shop room beneath Minneapolis Community & Technical College (MCTC) where a pair of Creal’s custom choppers and all their flashy chrome curves share the space with rows of dull, boxy fans and air ducts [...]
I took a break from my business and technology reporting yesterday to film this video of an Arbor Day celebration in my neighborhood (Waite Park in Northeast Minneapolis). Volunteers and students helped plant more than 80 trees around Waite Park Elementary School as part of a National Arbor Day Foundation event.
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