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But people aren't born with Sr. as part of their legal name, right? So, when and how does one add Sr. to their name? Is this a legal process that you go thru or is it informal?

They're holding out for an actual guarantee that a competitor won't be able to open in this development, in order to protect Cub. It doesn't seem like this would be too hard a guarantee to make. Is a supermarket really part of the plans here, to the point where it would be a deal breaker for a deve...

From Trump's executive order pertaining to immigration and sanctuary cities:

(c) Ensure that jurisdictions that fail to comply with applicable Federal law do not receive Federal funds, except as mandated by law;

What kind of funds would these be, that aren't mandated by law?

"There are skeptics, particularly those who question how many Floridians will get out of their air-conditioned cars during much of the year’s hot, humid weather."

It's either too hot or too cold to not drive your car.

Can anyone with experience watching these kinds of projects give any inclination of how sure this is to becoming a reality? And what sorts of means of communication are used to announce progress? I was at the community meeting at the Longfellow Rec Center, but I didn't really get a sense of how far ...

Not sure if this is worthy of it's own thread at this stage, but Alliance Housing Inc. is looking to build a low income apartment building for seniors at 3001 E. Lake St., the vacant spot where McMahon's Pub used to stand. Longfellow/Nokomis Messenger has the story here, http://www.longfellownokomis...

I think about 2 or 3 people asked which grocery store and each time it was answered with a, don't know. But one of the developers did mention that they have worked with about 11 different grocers in local projects, basically trying to say that they didn't just work with one specific one. He highligh...

Will the grocery/retail cover the entire 1st level, or just the side near 46th St?

I believe the entire 1st floor. The main entrance to the grocery store will be facing the surface parking lot.

The anti-project crowd was worried about their neighborhood losing its character, but the developers and CM Andrew Johnson did a good job of explaining how this project will enhance the area. Probably to no effect. Haha, yep. At the end of the meeting I overheard a woman who must have a home near t...

School district: So has the Minneapolis public school system purchased that site two blocks away? Any thoughts on when they may start constructing their new building, if the land has been purchased? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Regarding the new MPS adult education building at 20th-21st and E...

Construction has begun at the old White Castle at 36th Ave and East Lake St. It was completely abandoned this morning and by 5p they had the whole building fenced off with a couple of dumpsters and storage boxes or something and had already gone to town inside the building too. Looks like they are g...

I think they are in discussion with Xcel in regards to possibly moving the power lines, sounded like a slow and cumbersome process. I believe the cost of burying them in the three block area was mentioned at around 6 million dollars, so they didn't foresee that happening. They said a study of the 46...

Informative meeting. I think it must have gone similarly to other presentations of this sort, with the usual NIMBYs bringing up congestion and traffic complaints. There were, however, quite a few attendees in favor of the density, who also brought up pedestrian and biking concerns. The power lines s...

At the meeting now, will try to rely what I can.

I just sent an email to Cam Gordon, right after reading John Edwards' article on winter sidewalks at lunch today.

Finally had success using the app. Had to uninstall the app and reinstall it before I could activate a stored ticket. I hope these issues get fixed quickly. This is definitely not something an infrequent rider is going to want to deal with.

Here's what the sidewalk looked like when I reported the issue, looking south toward Lake St., https://imgur.com/dZ9hUUt Here's what it looked like after I received the email that my report was closed as no violation, had a bit of a warm up so some melting took place, looking north from Lake St., ht...

Anyone know if the Metro Transit fare app works the same on MVTA as it does on Metro Transit buses? I saw in one of the reviews in the Google store that someone had trouble with it on an MVTA bus, driver said the particular fare wasn't valid on MVTA. Also, any trouble using it in general? I tried to...

I called 311 today and they passed me through to the inspector's telephone. I left a message, but no return call yet. When I hit the reopen link on the app I just get an explanation of the privacy policy for private reports, but my initial report wasn't private. Kinda frustrating. This particular pi...

I've recently started using the 311 app, but my reports seem to be quickly closed with no resolution. There's a huge pile of snow and ice dumped right on the sidewalk between the curb cuts for the White Castle drive thru, now closed, at 36th Ave S and East Lake, along 36th Ave S. You can't get aroun...