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Congrats, Milwaukee and Wisconsin, on your fiscal conservatism!

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/us ... ?referrer=

Not a "gone wild" post, but since there's really no where else to put this: http://election.startribune.com/results/2015/primary/ It seems that St. Paul and a handful of suburbs held primaries today for municipal elections, as well as various school board seats. This being the one year ou...

http://www.metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetings/Committees/Transportation-Committee/2015/August-10,-2015/Info-1-CTIB-Program-of-Projects.aspx CTIB Program update includes new map featuring new transitways in future. For example: North Central, NE Diagonal. I don't like the look of the financials. Bond...

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/the-brooklyn-of-every-state-125773642747.html?soc_src=unv-sh&soc_trk=fb Maybe I am just showing my age, but I remember when a bohemian lifestyle was about being a musician or an artist and not really caring too much about money. Apparently now it is about going out ...

How expensive could it be to upgrade Lutsen, though? If the NLX wasn't yet completed (it will be), this would easily complete it. As for transportation from Duluth to Lutsen, an upgraded North Shore Scenic Railway could probably handle that. Afterwards it could be turned into commuter rail and/or in...

So will it be real once they slap DMC and Mayo(tm) across everything? I barely see any circumstantial substance either way here.

If the NAHSRG turns out to be legit, because it's a private sector group with investors to answer to, would it take less time for them to go through the planning and engineering processes than it would normally take Mn/DOT or Amtrak? I know MN/DOT has been criticised for having only 4 people dedicat...

We may not only be talking about money here, though it is a comparison of the two best (only) choices (host or don't host), and some of the intangibles can be converted into monetary values. There isn't a set amount of money to be spent by government during this time frame. The hundreds of millions ...

To decide on whether or not it would be worth hosting the Olympics, we have to look at the opportunity costs, not just whether it generates a profit, which it wouldn't. If this were to generate the political capital required to finish building out our transit system, and if the net cost/benefit of h...

a PR firm When reading through the consortium thread, It came to mind that there are actually companies (and other organizations) that shill on social media as a function. Governments do it too (proven via leaks), even though that's a matter rarely discussed outside of tin-foil clubs. What was seen...

Post Bulletin - Private rail group's goals include link to Chicago http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/private-rail-group-s-goals-include-link-to-chicago/article_7b226e33-d11e-5c22-be93-8ba78f315dc1.html Big post I figured that'd be the case. This is also an opportunity for Chinese investors/com...

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/chicago-transit-oriented-development-mta-train-video-china-train-minnesota A new proposed TOD ordinance would nearly triple the amount of land in the city where denser development would be allowed and increase the land subject to reduced parking requirements tenfold ...

Rolling out trash cans like these could be a good solution. Lower cost + more trash cans = win! http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/solar-powered-trash-cans-saved-philadelphia-almost-a-million-bucks Edit: We may not want to use those specific models, though. http://www.treehugger.com/solar-technology/p...

Most likely outcome is that this private endeavor breaks down in a year or two and we're left back where we started. There's no way that the group is going to be able to raise multiple billions of dollars for this suspect plan. This almost feels consortium-level to me, but apparently there are actu...

A reminder of Bernie's organizing event today:

http://time.com/3976557/bernie-sanders-house-party/

http://bernie.to/events-map
https://berniesanders.com/video/

Must the contingency funds explicitly be federal funds, and/or be given to the feds if not used, regardless of origin? If neither, or not one of the two, then I could imagine contingency funds being used to add some stations back in.

Two potential reasons that come to mind would be for some sort of "Geographic Equity" purpose, and that each line may only be considered on its own, and not as part of a system, under current rules.

Well giving them the opportunity to afford lawyers, get a good education and become members of the middle class well then that alone will start to prove they are truly equal be MAKING THEM EQUAL! Yet, if the black community are not willing to support Bernie Sanders I'm not sure what the black commu...

He set himself back at Netroots Nation. Until Bernie is able to fully embrace Black liberation, he's going to have a tough going with many Black folk. His economic populism is seen as catering to the white liberal establishment by leaders of #BlackLivesMatter. They understand the economics helps ev...