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- March 17th, 2017, 9:56 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Zoning in Minneapolis
- Replies: 285
- Views: 109104
Re: Zoning in Minneapolis
What I'm objecting to is your (and others') apparent opinion that almost everyone opposed to your ideas holds that position out of selfishness or ignorance and that things the other side values (yes, character!) should be simply dismissed out of hand. If you're really willing to have complex conver...
- March 2nd, 2017, 12:13 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Nic on Fifth - (290' - 26 Stories)
- Replies: 1033
- Views: 229361
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News
Those places with dozens of taps creep me out. When was the last time the keg was changed, the taps cleaned, or even a single beer poured on the 78th most popular variety? <shudder>
- February 23rd, 2017, 11:17 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: MN State Senate and House Elections 2016
- Replies: 98
- Views: 21398
Re: MN State Senate and House Elections 2016
Yes it did. I guess my feeling is that we are in a pretty discouraging spot when the strategy is to see who can out Tea-Party each other...
It worked very well for the Tea Party.
- February 23rd, 2017, 9:49 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: MN State Senate and House Elections 2016
- Replies: 98
- Views: 21398
Re: MN State Senate and House Elections 2016
People are understandably pissed. If there's anything to learn from the last eight years it's that over promising on health care back fires and that opposition works. I think this is absolutely correct. I am pretty certain the fierce opposition will lead to a strong reaction against Trump & Rep...
- February 22nd, 2017, 3:13 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5306
- Views: 1333032
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
I think we'll have a good idea how the feds will respond once the California Caltrain electrification project is decided http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/02/16/will_elaine_chao_axe_federal_funding_for_caltrain.html A similar tactic was used, just by California's US House delegation rather t...
- February 21st, 2017, 12:06 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5306
- Views: 1333032
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
With this administration, the standard deviation of behavior from the norm is so great that who knows how this kind of thing plays out. It could easily be as feared: pander to the state GOP and divert funding. But these types of projects are as close as any to 'shovel-ready', and I gotta think Trump...
- February 15th, 2017, 10:03 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Maverick - 100 Hennepin Avenue S
- Replies: 206
- Views: 41761
Re: Maverick - 100 Hennepin Avenue S
1) Dentists make a lot of moneyYeah, but 1st Street has developed into the stronger restaurant and retail corridor.
It's weird to me that a dentist would pay ground floor retail prices.
2) Medical professionals are infamous for their horrible financial acumen.
- February 13th, 2017, 12:40 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Minneapolis Skyway System
- Replies: 519
- Views: 111209
Re: Minneapolis Skyway System
Let's review the discussion here: 1) amiller92 said: "Street connections are unfortunately a loaded topic, as certain business interests are concerned they will bring in the wrong people (which is super racist)." 2) You responded that you "don't think it has so much to do with race a...
- February 13th, 2017, 10:08 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Minneapolis Skyway System
- Replies: 519
- Views: 111209
Re: Minneapolis Skyway System
So what? Did anyone say that the skyways are crime-free? That's why we have security guards and police. There's a big, big leap from "we need to deal with crime" to the sort of mentality that caused the incident with Chris Lollie. Umm, I think that's precisely the point the posters above ...
- January 7th, 2017, 12:40 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Sports
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4402
Re: Sports
That sound to me like the worst possible option. You get all the bad with none of the good. You get criticized for extending a guy who just messed up but don't make enough of a commitment to him to prevent him from being hamstrung in recruiting. Seriously, the worst possible thing to do is delay th...
- January 5th, 2017, 5:08 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Sports
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4402
Re: Sports
Your response appears to come from the presumption that there is no possible rational reason for being upset about this. There is very little rational reason to be upset that a coach got fired because 10 of his players had to be suspended because they are accused of campus conduct violations, inclu...
- January 5th, 2017, 12:38 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Sports
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4402
Re: Sports
In these coaches people saw small-town men of great integrity, guys who represented their rural values in a major institution. I don't think it's that. I think it's that "men are getting falsely accused of sexual assault on campus and it's unfair" has been a right wing talking point for a...
- December 15th, 2016, 3:48 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: North Loop Neighborhood
- Replies: 1096
- Views: 533256
Re: North Loop Neighborhood
Surely the app could be changed so that you could not renew a meter? Of course, you could always find a friend to renew it for you. Nothing beats having someone doing actual enforcement, but that would cost more and in this case, it would not increase revenue, only availability. My internal cycnic ...
- December 13th, 2016, 1:09 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: [Archived] Uptown Retail & Restaurant News 2012-17
- Replies: 1427
- Views: 257978
Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News
^Has that been rumored for awhile, or is there some other potential proposal that's been floating around? Seems like that's not a surprise (and not simply because it's a rather generic restaurant...).
- December 12th, 2016, 2:23 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Future Cars: Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
- Replies: 545
- Views: 216294
Re: Future cars / Driverless cars
Even for "innocent bystander" incidents (i.e. without the pedestrian or cyclist doing anything dangerous, stupid, or illegal) 99% seems very high to me. If we had a dollar for every pedestrian struck because a driver swerved to avoid hitting a cat, we'd be rich as kings. Well, I admit I d...
- December 12th, 2016, 2:04 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Future Cars: Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
- Replies: 545
- Views: 216294
Re: Future cars / Driverless cars
Mostly true, but I can guarantee you there *will* be bugs that cause the car to do something bad a human would not do. I'm not saying scrap the whole thing but rather temper the optimism a bit. No argument on that. To your point, clearly the underlying assumption here is that self-driving cars won'...
- December 12th, 2016, 12:29 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Future Cars: Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
- Replies: 545
- Views: 216294
Re: Future cars / Driverless cars
I'm not worried about that sort of stuff. I'm worried about how the computer would assess a specific situation and decide someone must die. If someone dies, who's legally responsible? That would be a real problem. It would also be a real problem that hardly ever occurs. I suspect it hardly ever occ...
- November 14th, 2016, 5:01 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Minnesota Zoo - Apple Valley
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2449
Re: Minnesota Zoo - Apple Valley
Offer them a dollar and say you'll pay to haul it away. I understand that when they tried to sell them they only were able to get rid of one and the rest have been sitting somewhere in storage.Curious to find out how someone would buy one of the old abandoned monorail cars...
- November 9th, 2016, 2:38 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Presidential Election 2016
- Replies: 1007
- Views: 92793
Re: Presidential Election 2016
You mean aside from bailing out the auto industry? And subsidizing health insurance? Expanding Medicaid? You will get no argument from me that the Democratic platform and their policies are actually better for them. But again, being a non college educated person has gotten tougher. Those nice thing...
- November 9th, 2016, 1:59 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Presidential Election 2016
- Replies: 1007
- Views: 92793
Re: Presidential Election 2016
This is stolen from a friend who is far more eloquent than I (on a different forum): Are you serious? Democrats ignored/excluded/offended blue collar middle class whites more than Republicans? Free trade isn't an idea espoused by Democrats. Union busting isn't a Democratic value. Cutting taxes for ...