Or at Least, New York and London It’s quite a paragraph — make that sentence — but it’s worth the effort: “Autocratic hyper-capitalism without Western checks and balances produces new elites whose dream is an American or British lifestyle and education for their children, and whose other goal, knowing how their own capricious systems really function,...Read More
Knollwood, Southwest ‘Burbs Get (a Little) Closer to Minneapolis Scarcely 4 1/2 months ago — late March, to be exact — Twin Cities motorists traveling 50 mph in opposite directions on Highway 7 in St. Louis Park came perilously close to one another (I’d estimate less than 4 feet). On roads that were not exactly ice-free (see photo, above)....Read More
Eat Your Heart Out, San Diego! Happily, this past week would be one of those (ten weeks): highs in the low 80’s, lots of sun, (relatively) how humidity. With more on tap the next several days. Enjoy! (Note: any resemblance between the Lake Calhoun photo (above) and this blog’s masthead (top) . . . is...Read More
What’s the best-selling item at the shopping mall these days? Hint: it’s not in the stores — it’s in the parking lot. In fact, it IS the parking lot. Mixed-Use New Construction No less than 3 Twin Cities shopping malls at the moment — Ridgedale, Knollwood, and Southdale — have major construction projects going up...Read More
After the Deluge (Hopefully) Yes, I know that the habitats of everything from timber wolves to moose to monarch butterflies are now stressed and shrinking. But, thanks to anywhere from 5″ to more than 10″(!) of rain so far just this month, the metro area is literally awash in new ponds and wetlands. Like this...Read More
