urbanMSP

If anything, I would think Fiscal Disparities slowed white flight and ghettoization leaving us less sprawly than we'd otherwise be. I did blush a little reading that article, but mostly this type of praise makes me think about how bad it must be other places. It's hard enough to keep the rent paid h...

Someone should tip off Ira Glass. Sounds like an episode of This American life.

I've been paying $11.96/month for quite a while. I know that I could evade their paywall, but I've considered it sort of civic duty to support the hometown newspaper and journalism in general. I used to read a lot more Star Tribune articles, though, and I've sort of soured on the paper lately. I gue...

Midtown could be useful for someone taking the 4 from Northeast, and transfering to Midtown at Lyndale to go either East or West.

The amount of effort required to pull off this hoax doesn't really strike me as the work of an older person who is upset that their credibility is questioned. The working assumption of the motive for this hoax seems to be a nasaesque quest for validation, credibility, and to look like an insider. I...

I know these aren't in response to me, but who said arguing is bad? I'm just confused how it became the topic. I'm here because I love the debate-heavy atmosphere myself. Nobody I know personally said they're gone because people argue with them too much... Some take argument as criticism. When lurk...

It's not a reaction to your comments, Jake. Just my take on the few posters who go stomping out of here.

Well put MNdible. I think this is a key point. I'm not hung up about building an online community of Urban love. I'm looking for a rough and tumble free exchange of ideas, with people who can give as good as they get. I'm tired of people thinking all opinions have equal weight and merit. If you misr...

It must be the big bad gubmint! Ok, please understand I'm not putting this forward as a theory. Your comment just made me think of this. Does anyone else remember a few years ago when Streetsblog.org outed their notorious troll as an employee of the military who worked in and trolled from the Penta...

That would be $500 K , not million. But really, this more confirms what we're saying about Dayton. He's all over the board. He talked about a gas tax, then said he didn't want to raise the gas tax, then proposed to raise the gas tax. He said there's no state money for Southwest in the next two years...

I just mean it's definitely not uncommon for people (especially people that follow multiple cities at SSC) to request off-topic posts be deleted in the development news threads... since they're for news, especially when an off-topic matter takes up 15 pages. Right. And I appreciate your level-heade...

Love the effort to delete the SSC posts and move on. You'd think they'd want to take a few days/weeks to suss it out after discovering a hoax drove their conversation for over a year. There's still a lot more questions than answers at this point. I know I'm pretty facinated to watch this whole web u...

They should really just re-grout the tile pavement on Nicollet Mall and forget about wasting time and money to renovate it.

I agree with this one sentence of your post at least.

I think when someone votes for the cannabis party, they're making a few statements. One, they actually care enough to vote. Two, they don't feel like either of the viable parties are representing their interests, and three they support the legalization of marijuana. But beyond that, keep in mind tha...

My favorite story about the self checkouts - A guy was trying to buy a crowbar at Home Depot and was repeatedly thwarted by the self checkout so he smashed it to pieces.

I could identify the couple of times I've used them.

Also, I'm reminded that the hostsite of Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, was privately owned space. However, the developer obtained variances for their development by offering a plaza for the public on their property. I'm aware no such stipulation made for the MoA rotunda, but that doesn't address...

Just because something is given public money, does not make it public space. The mall still has rules. Nobody has a right to break those rules on purpose and not expect to get in trouble for it. It isn't like they didn't know. They were warned, and continued anyways. I absolutely agree that accepti...

"As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people, By the relief office I seen my people; As they stood there hungry, I stood ther...

Bloomington filed charges against 10 of the MoA protest leaders. MPR posted the statement of probable cause from the criminal complaint. http://www.scribd.com/doc/252646733/Statement-of-Probable-Cause-from-criminal-complaint Written from the perspective of trying to make this demonstration sound SO ...

Makes me think of Moscow's subway-riding stray dogs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_dog ... al_Times-1