John talks to Eric Moran, who's running to represent North Minneapolis (and a tiny part of the North Loop neighborhood) on the Minneapolis Park Board. Eric says he's running a campaign focused on both physical and digital access to the parks system and its government. With recent news of Minneapolis dropping in the ranking of best urban parks systems (based on the percentage of people who live within a 10 minute walk to a park), John asks what can be done to increase the number of people who can live near parks and how to narrow the racial disparities in park access. We also talk about encampments, park police, and Eric's desire to reopen a North Minneapolis ice arena that's fallen into disuse. John recounts 45 years of basketball NIMBYism in the Wedge neighborhood's Mueller Park -- and the racist trope of public basketball courts as magnets for crime and undesirable behavior. Eric comes out in support of full court basketball and introduces John to the concept of Pokemon NIMBYs. In response, John introduces listeners to the concept of Pokemon fanatic, and Uptown mainstay, Ryan Brown.

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