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United Properties guy put the percent chance this development moves ahead at 75 percent. What do you folks think? The kiss of death. While they are still actively looking for partners there's no way they come out and publicly say, "I don't know, it's iffy. Probably only a 25-30% chance this th...

Well this is a timely thread. Started removing a wall in my 100 yr old house today, and of course there's a heating pipe that makes an inexplicable 90 degree bend to cross the area I'd like to open up (yes, I tried to figure out the most likely pipe runs before starting). So anyone have experience m...

There's probably an obvious answer for this, but a post on another thread got me wondering: why DO retailers cover their windows so much? Is there a marketing reason? Or just so they can use the wall space more flexibly? I was stopped at the light outside the downtown Lunds last night and could see ...

Didn't see a thread for this. Seems like there probably is though. Anyone have insight into the logic behind the Aquatennial changes? It seems so bizarre to drop the events that regular folks can actually participate in that are actually tied to 'aqua' (i.e. the stuff at Calhoun). It's seems so stra...

It would be interesting to hear how long reel mower proponents have been reel mowing. I've been there, and thought it was fine. ...until it wasn't. Inevitably, if you are like me, you go on vacation and miss a week or something, and then the reel mower is basically useless. Sharpening, while it can ...

Went for a snack/late lunch Saturday. First impression pretty positive. The Shorty & Wags Tribute fried chicken was quite good. The $10 dogs just might be worth it from the looks of them. Huge and loaded. The place was just starting to fill up when I took off at about 4:00 PM. Definitely want to...

That's great about Nighthawk's and all, but I'd like to hear more about Kingfield Softball.

how in the world did the Blue & Green Lines ever get built? Irrefutable logic. Blue Line: CBD to Airport. Necessity for any metro. Green Line: major CBD to minor CBD via gigantic university. No-brainer. SWLRT? Much less compelling: CBD to . . . wealthy suburbs, sort of near some large office pa...

For me personally the most exhausting/depressing thing about this whole fiasco is looking back 5-10 years to how naively optimistic I was about the future of transit when it finally became apparent the Green Line would be built. With two successful lines, city populations (and presumably political p...

And don't feel too honored Grant - Eggy's is owned by Magellan themselves. We're not getting the 2nd location of some exclusive Chicago-only restaurant here. We're getting a breakfast joint that Magellan puts in their own buildings (when they can't find other tenants?) I'm with you on this one. Som...

@kirby96 There's nothing to indicate that it's not great for everyone, though. There could simply be additional, negative, factors that have influenced our african american community. Said community potentially could have been worse-off than it is currently is if it wasn't for those policies. An &q...

Some countries in the Middle East might seem homogenous to us, but in reality they are networks of inter-related groups with long histories of conflict. They have several Millennia of history complicating their relationships. What agreement and homogenous opinion does exist is not necessarily the k...

Sure, but that number is nuanced as well (eg. Copenhagen only 77% ethnic Danish). Worth noting too that none of this is an argument against adopting Nordic policies in Minnesota specifically, because this state is just as homogeneous. That's what I'm saying: similar circumstances exist (relatively ...

The ethnic/cultural homogeneity of Scandinavia (except Finland) is easily overstated, and is used as an excuse far too frequently. France's non-ethnic French population is somewhere between 10-15% of the population (most of them from elsewhere in Europe; North Africans only around 5%!); Norway's is...

I think his article is weak for the reasons stated, incluing the comparison of Minneapolis with smaller cities where it's easier to attain growth, but also the casual (and certainly mis-leading) switching between statistics for 'Minnesota' and 'Minneapolis'. That said, I think his premise is likely ...

...ummm, the surface beneath a mural remains whether or not the mural exists, and serves a primary function unrelated to advertising: to hold up part of a building. A billboard is constructed for the sole purpose of advertising, and therefore takes space, views, etc. that would otherwise remain inta...

Haven't read this thread muchin the past six weeks and just read several pages (but not all so maybe this was already covered somewhere). The scam here could very likely be to get 'investors' in a project. Build up a convincing on-line persona and then reach out to folks for a 'fantastic investment ...

That's true -- I guess the next time white supremacists organize a national wave of protests in opposition to a widely-discussed racial injustice, MOA will be in quite a bind. More seriously, I cannot see how precedent is a plausible concern. Because you can't predict the future. In my field, we wo...

I just assumed that the people who worked there were hired for a reason. I've never heard of hirings just to increase a manager's reporting headcount. I've always wondered how those redundancies were measured in the first place. Does the CEO know how every single person contributes to the company? ...

^I hear you, but from the stories dripping out of Target over the years, and rising to a torrent now in the past couple weeks, it sure sounds like there was some serious organizational disfunction there. Hiring just to increase headcount under management, incredible amounts of time wasted on items n...