How We Know
What This Is
MSPMetro is a daily civic briefing for situational awareness. It is designed to support decisions in the next 12 hours: travel, weather impacts, closures, meetings, and operational status.
It is not opinion, not commentary, and not engagement-driven. The page is intentionally calm and consistent.
How Information Is Selected
- Relevance to daily planning and local impact.
- Preference for verifiable, attributable sources.
- Human-readable synthesis first; raw data is secondary.
How Sources Are Used
Sources are categorized internally into tiers:
- Tier 1 (Authoritative): government agencies, courts, NWS, Metro Transit, counties
- Tier 2 (Institutional): schools, hospitals, utilities
- Tier 3 (Community): neighborhood associations, libraries, local orgs
- Tier 4 (Observational): public notices or confirmed reports without official backing
Alerts are not escalated without authoritative source input. Tier 4 material is labeled clearly and never used for alert escalation.
How Updates & Corrections Work
- Updates modify the same story when the underlying event is the same, and must include an “What changed” line.
- Corrections are not edits. If a published fact is wrong, a correction block is appended stating what was wrong, what is correct, and when it was corrected.
- Daily archives preserve what was known at the time. Corrections may be appended as annotations without overwriting original text.
What This Is Not
- Not exhaustive coverage.
- Not real-time emergency services.
- Not social media.