urbanMSP

But affluent and college educated whites were gonna go with any republican. The difference maker is precisely as Tiller describes it. That and Hilary's unlikability.

Turn out a few more rednecks, lose a few blacks, voila. Trump is president.

Democracy. Ain't it great? Arab spring, brexit, trump!




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Given the state of retail downtown, isn't this probably a sad thing, albeit one with a potential silver lining? Take away five stories of humdrum retail, put back a street level of smaller retail and potentially fill the rest with workers: seems a lot more in line with today's realities and should b...

The scale of those two pictures seems completely off. That is, the second one looks like a miniature model of the first and the grown man in the foreground of the former doesn't help one bit. Yeah, I thought it looked weird too. I think it's because those windows from the first pic that are gone in...

Lets get real here. This type of crime happens, windows and sidewalk cafes be damned. The most recent shooting happened in front of the police station.

Right on. Love it or leave it, I say.

But I'd rather have Cano than a baldfaced hypocrite. Cano, the one with the soapbox of a widely followed public forum that she uses to call out largely voiceless private citizens, and who also threatens to expose fellow council members claims she's getting bullied? I'll borrow your term: bald-faced...

For the record, I think Cano's latest email was stupid and juvenile. But I'm surprised that no-one seems at all bothered by the fact that Barb Johnson is waging a shadow campaign against her in the press which--gasp--itself involves leaking private city emails. Assuming you are referring to the e-m...

https://twitter.com/brsomogyi/status/779021594140119041 The tweet references the statute covering sexual and labor trafficking crimes, so perhaps not relevant. I did a quick search and found the statutes covering coercion, and it appears Cano comes close, but probably avoids illegality. Although th...

I haven't really thought this through, but following the line of thought above, could this actually be criminal? Doesn't the e-mail suggest that she is offering to bury evidence of unethical behavior in exchange for the political favor of voting to disapprove the ethics vote?!?

- Works in national security - Attends classified meetings on Capitol Hill - Spends hours writing essay-length posts sycophantically defending the Vikings from any and all criticism on an obscure internet message board about development in a city he purports to live 900 miles away from (One of thes...

You all need to realize that the prospect of the metro area going it alone and permanently funding it's own transit infrastructure is terrifying to outstate legislators, and that cuts right across party lines. The thinking is that once the metro can raise the funds on its own to pay for whatever in...

I wonder if it would be possible to rotate 20 Washington 90 degrees and push it up against Marquette. That would would at least allow some development on that block and also allow for the possibility of running Nicollet through to a reconnected 2nd street. ..and also flip 100 and 111 upside down. T...

Bummer... save and document everything, take pics, etc., and then contact the city. Duh. I gotta say, though, the 'backfire' comment is concerning. Definitely save that message. Assuming it's not an outright threat, though, do you know exactly what easements each of you have regarding the shared dri...

Is it at all possible that the state reimburses the three entities that committed more money at a later date? Say when/if the DFL take control of the legislature this November or is that not possible? If I understand correctly, the bonds aren't actually going to be issued until July, so if the 2017...

Eh, I'm not even totally convinced that not really needing state funding is a bad thing. It would be okay, in my book, to plan out metro transit projects without relying on outstate parochial interests for a relatively small, but crucial piece of funding. If that means that from here on out we expa...

The GOP won. Either the SWLRT goes down in flames, or the Met Council/Dayton finds some other source of funding, and the GOP and point and say the state funding was never needed. I say fund it. The GOP will suffer the Trump Drag in November regardless of this issue, and by the time of the next two ...

So all of a sudden it seems to me Dayton is hugely politically motivated to find some solution (any solution!) to keep this going. Otherwise this will be viewed as an absolutely massive victory for the Republicans, will it not? To kill a project of such magnitude? The Repub 'base' will easily overlo...

I built out from the front of my house, but it's an open porch and the city specifically has an exception for open porches (I forget how much you can encroach for an open porch without triggering a variance). One other major factor to keep in mind, most old Mpls houses are scrunched up against the ...

I don't think I've ever done it knowing I would end up blocking the box. I'll admit that I don't always wait until there is a full car space available across the intersection. That is, there has been the occasion where I've judged the flow of traffic such to be pretty certain I'd make it through onl...

I wonder if it's really that they want to keep this in limbo in hopes of pressuring the state to come up with some sort of better, more permanent solution than just coming up with $150m out of somebody else's budget. While I have no idea if that's actually true, I think that is highly likely becaus...