How Much Do You Discount for THAT?? I got a chuckle looking at the backyard photo (above) for this new list in St. Louis Park’s “first alphabet” neighborhood — better known as Fern Hill. If you look closely, you’ll see a shiny, silvery object looming above the fence in the center left of the photo. The explanation? The...Read More
Who Needs an Expensive Colorado Consultant?? So, the deep tunnel option for the Southwest Light Rail Corridor is apparently a “no go” (too expensive). What’s next? Everyone (including the Met Council’s high-priced Pueblo, CO consultant) is now going back to the drawing board, (re)examining all options, and reconvening in a month. If that’s the case, here’s seconding my...Read More
Answer: Bikes! Want a sure sign that the Twin Cities’ “Nice Ride” bike program is a hit? Bike stands like the one above (at the southeast corner of 26th & Lyndale, in Minneapolis’ Wedge neighborhood) that are plumb out of bikes. To be sure, yesterday was a beautiful, weekend day, with sunny skies and (very)...Read More
Back-to-School Quotes 2013: That’s a Lower Case “V,” Not Upper Case My three kids are (blissfully) back in school as of this Monday. Which means that they’re coming home with the first volley of homework assignments. Discussing one such assignment with my soon-to-be nine-year old daughter, I imparted the adage, “history is written by the...Read More
Does This Picture Make Anyone Else Nervous? The picture above accompanied a recent New York Times article, “Silence Underground,” discussing a shuttered Chinese coal mine and the corruption afflicting Chinese state conglomerates generally. But what caught my eye was the precariously perched building. The bluff directly in front of the middle of the building clearly...Read More
Entrenched Management’s Favorite Weapon Imagine a political maneuver that allowed an embattled state governor — facing widespread voter disapproval and imminent defeat at the polls — to magically conjure millions of additional votes to give to his or her political allies and supporters. Exactly how long do you suppose such a flagrant legal abuse artifice...Read More
