Homeless nestled on seats with blankets when my husband and I have concluded an event or activity in Minneapolis and taking the Blue Line back to either Fort Snelling or 28thAve. Park and Rides during the Winter. It is sad to see this. But Gov. Walz needs to be aware that this is happening during this harsh winter.

I also think nobody's bothering the riders about whether they are ticketed or not.

for whenever the temperature is below 32 degrees, all winter, every year. One is open 24 hours a day.

But during the recent polar vortex the City expanded its warming shelters to 160 sites, many with extended hours and some with overnight hours. They additionally added 500 beds to shelters, and contracted with Lyft and Uber to transport people at no charge to various warming centers. These include senior and community centers, libraries, park district field houses, government buildings, and police stations.

I was so proud of my city and the Department of Family and Support Services this year.

are left out of all of that. The Light Rail trains are one solution for the moment.

—102 miles of them, with 230 million riders a year—and homeless people do ride the two lines that are open 24/7 overnight. But it's not the best solution. First, there are no bathrooms on the El cars, and there's nothing like the 750,000 people who commute to jobs on the public transit system each day walking into a urine-soaked (or worse) car.

It's a place, but efforts to find better places are imperative, both for homeless individuals and the continued operations of the public transit system itself.

It does identify an unfilled need, though. Meanwhile, the trains are warm. People are using them as shelter. I'm OK with that, since adequate shelter is not available.

The homeless are there. Also quite often the police are riding too. The only harassment I’ve seen is when one of the homeless folks tries to get off at the airport and hang out in the heated skyway at the terminal 2 stop. The police remove them pretty quickly from there.

It's still a poor compromise. I don't know what the solution will be, in the end.

Obviously, there is not enough money tinkling, er, trickling down upon these people so we need to give more tax relief to the top 1%.

How much longer can we survive the effects of Reaganomics and GOPerism?

If we quit fighting amongst ourselves, we could regain control of government. I hope we learned something in 2016.