urbanMSP

Personally, I like the look of the precast. I find the colors and the linearity reminiscent of brick. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The HPC has no objection to a nineteenth-century building being destroyed to expand a parking lot. Bobby and Steve's still needs the city to approve their ultimate plans for the site, which are collectively intended to make the area easier for vehicles to maneuver. The demolition of 1207 Washington...

(new post since it's too late to add this to the last one) At this point the two main options are aBRT on White Bear ave and LRT roughly following the bruce vento ROW. There's no way they'd use Dmu's or BRT buses in the old railway corridor. And since aBRT doesn't qualify for federal or CTIB funds, ...

It's also important to be proactive, not reactive, to help prevent bad decisions from occuring. Related (to the general thread) question. Does anyone know much about Hmong Village? It's something that I've only thought of recently, but it could be a good idea to have a "Hmong Village" stat...

People use the service, just not enough that Car2go thinks it wouldn't be more profitable to refocus those cars elsewhere. Note that the company has never said keeping those areas in service is itself unprofitable, or that refusal would cause them to withdraw from the city. I found the best resonse...

There is certainly racism to some extent, but the question should be is it actually non-negligible. If fear is proportional to bad behavior with negligible variance due to an outside factor like race, then there is no problem. If, however, it is non-negligibly higher when african americans are invol...

He stopped and got out though. Hitting a child isn't ok, but he wasn't trying to flee the scene (which is why they were able to beat him). This is bad all around.

1 cent/dollar = 1%. 1% of a 250$ restaurant bill is $2.50, while a tax of 1 cent (per dollar) would be 1 cent for every dollar, which is still $2.50. It's basically simpler way of explaining a 1% sales tax, because saying 1 cent per dollar is an easier concept to pitch to one's constituents. A cent ...

I can't though, because we aren't just talking policy here (which is the easy part). When someone has clearly made up their mind, and dismisses you, then there isn't much to be done. In hindsight, I could have made some 10+ paragraph refutation of the article instead, but at this point in the race, ...

In this context, they are basically the same though, since it's implied that the tax is 1 cent per dollar, which is a 1% increase in absolute terms. It's mostly quibbling, though.

No problem man. Feel free to keep enjoying the appeals to authority, faulty statistics, and bedrock evidence that you've got going on.

I'm not sure why you think he's got a bias. Nearly everything and everyone is biased in some way, including statistics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_effect_(psychology) Your previous comments pretty clearly reveal your bias, though. Yup, Everyone has bias, see my previous comment^ just bec...

Yeah, no, I don't really care what nate silver thinks. Statistics, lacking proper contextualization, are as good as lies, and his website is noticably biased. Further, His spiel about the media, while true, is something that actually helps the Sanders campaign, since name recognition and Hillary's &...

While I usually am the person to put down things like the hyperloop and PRT (since they're used as cop-outs for transit/rail investment), I noticed this was trending on facebook, and that we didn't have a thread for discussing it yet. http://www.techinsider.io/hyperloop-transportation-technologies-t...

Any guesstimates as to how long it'll take for Lake Elmo to become another Woodbury? While they recently rejected becoming a suburb, I doubt they won't change their minds later.

Why do we still have a car sewer all these years later? Besides NIMBYism, prolly mostly the recession. An anecdote: there was a proposal to build a decent mixed-use condo building on the old bowling alley site by Hillcrest, but it fell through because of the recession. There is good news in terms o...

I've noticed over the summer that Maplewood is putting in sidewalks all over the place. Is there a plan or something that shows where these are going in, or is it just happening ad-hoc?

Some of the more major recent happenings: Sanders breaks 30% nationally, Hillary drops below 50% (Better than Obama was doing at this point in time): https://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/poll-sanders-doubles-support-closes-hillary_1012764.html Sanders overtakes Hillary in NH by 7%, Iowa Poll numbers...

An interesting article which reminded me of this thread; Some potentially helpful context about the nature of chinese investors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/chinese-companies-face-culture-shock-in-countries-that-arent-like-china/2015/08/14/a048eb64-3bbd-11e5-88d3-e62130acc975_story.html?tid...

I doubt this is exclusively a central-city problem, or even an apartment problem. As someone whose father and grandfather both worked in construction for their entire working lives (and still do), let me say, that not all construction workers are the "cream of the crop", if you catch my d...