Gordon's Notes

Google Maps seems unbeatable. Every time Apple does an upgrade Google does three. It seems Apple can't win. But Google has weaknesses....

The extraordinary St Paul Bicycle coalition has a couple of useful references on our upcoming mayoral race: Candidate statements Voter G...

Just did some research on bicycle traffic training options for St Paul and Minneapolis (MSP, Twin Cities). I found: Bicycle Alliance of Mi...

Temple of ECK is top right, Prince’s Paisley Park facility and residence is bottom left, Lake Ann Park lies between them. The bland suburb...

(and now for something completely different). I made  my most recent Apple store trip  by bicycle. Before I set out I tried to find a bike ...

Portland and Minneapolis have been fighting for bicycle glory over the past few years. We usually trade #1 and #2 spots with the hilly city ...

A report on bike share safety in NYC makes a number of safety recommendations and includes a graph of North America's best cities: W...

The streets were clear today, the sun was up, and the temperatures were the 20s (F). A fine day for a bicycle ride in Minnesota's year w...

Our yearly nordic ski event has run aground . Today's City of Lakes Nordic Ski Foundation newsletter wins the brave face prize... ... ...

Great review of how Minneapolis became a bicycle town following the Dutch model of bike/car separation, with very encouraging news from St P...

This is, on the one hand, a very local story. Local, that is, to my neighborhood of Macalester-Groveland, Saint Paul, Minnesota. On the oth...

I did my first TCBC ride in 12 years tonight. The kids are getting old enough I can take a Dad Night every few weeks; soon they'll be s...

Nordic skiing (cross-country for Americans) has been in decline since the 1970s. Too warm. Last winter, though, was pretty good in MSP. The...

Minnesota has an undeserved reputation as a sober sort of place. So it surprises some to learn that  the Tea Party's Michele Bachman ha...

About as bad as expected nationally, worse than expected in my home state of Minnesota. Two glimmers of hope: The average voter has a 3 mon...

Race and ethnicity: Minneapolis and St. Paul . It's part of a Flickr set by Eric Fisher inspired by Bill Rankin's Chicago map . (...

This is the 2nd or 3rd time in the past year a Minneapolis St Paul house has blown up, presumably due to a gas explosion, while sewer line ...

The web is a lot like LA. It has no history. Almost no history. By web standards Adelsman's XC ski pages are ancient civilization. I ...

A few weeks ago Google's bike directions from my home to my office were pretty good, but they did send me over a fairly narrow and crowd...

After a long stream of disappointing Google news, it's a relief to learn that they've added a map layer for bicycle directions ( ma...