Here's a roundup of what we published this week

Last night, Minneapolis teachers and education support professionals announced that 97% of teachers and 98% of ESPs voted to authorize a strike. Melissa Whitler wrote a summary yesterday that gives some good context on the background before the vote. Next up is a "cooling off" period where the educators decide whether to officially go on strike as they continue negotiations with the district.

Todd Schuman, an organizer with the Justice for Justine coalition, wrote a piece for us about their efforts, Amir Locke, and where efforts to reform MPD should go from here.

Wrecktangle shared their opening plans with us for their new space at LynLake (701 W. Lake Street) which will start takeout service in mid-March and become a full-service restaurant once they get their liquor license. We rounded up all of this week's Southwest restaurant news over on Instagram, including expansions for the teams from Clancey's, Boludo, and Centro.

Josh Martin pulled together a great summary on the city's redistricting process and proposed changes  in advance of the final public meeting next Thursday. We also shared updates from the state representatives from Southwest Minneapolis about their plans for running in the new districts.

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OUT & ABOUT

Friday

Head over to the Walker Sculpture Garden at 11 a.m. to watch them put the cherry back on the spoon!

There is a Zoom-guided virtual yoga session hosted by The Shift Collective at 6:30 p.m. tonight.

Tonight at 7 p.m., at Bryant Lake Bowl, check out a performance of Songversation on why people keep telling women to smile. (Also, stop doing that. What is wrong with you?)

There are only two more weekends of tubing at Theodore Wirth Park.

Saturday
Mia's exhibition on Paranormal Art in America opens on Saturday.

Let the children loose during indoor playtime for kids 1-6 at Linden Hills Park on Saturday from 3-4:30 p.m.

Saturday from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., check out the Outdoor Neighborhood Roots Winter Market  featuring vendors from the Fulton, Kingfield, and Nokomis Farmers Markets.

Sunday
Go do some yoga with cats on Sunday at Cafe Meow.