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The expansion was completed a couple of days ago in a flurry to try to make the deadline for the unveiling Wednesday and the century celebration yesterday. Here's a link to the Strib story with a photo of the building.http://www.startribune.com/business/266692351.html

My wife and I have a reel mower and an electric. The reel is 21 inch wide and works really well on my small lawn. Obviously it can not mulch leaves in the fall so the wife got an electric mower for a $100 from her employer - Toro. I've only used it a couple times and it doesn't have the oomph moder...

They really are cruising. I was working 10 days ago and took pictures from the roof of my building and they weren't even finished getting all of the dirt out.

That was more a commentary on the mayor saying it multiple times whenever she talks about the situation. It's like Kevin Nealon doing his subliminal man bit. Eventually everyone will believe.
It's nice to know though, that because the situation might affect me, my opinion is invalid.

(and I believe it really was -- because the freight should have been in SLP, and the reasons why have nothing to do with wealthy Kenilworthians)
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If the mayor says it enough, I guess it must be true.

[ BUT, what I am saying is that if a "Move the Bikepath" cohort emerged that included "the bicyclists", then wouldn't that be cutting the legs out from under the Kenilworth crowd? As interesting as that could make things, I think that the Kenilworth group would just refocus liti...

The Xcel letter can be found at https://www.facebook.com/download/65500 ... 202014.pdf

Thanks.

I would love to go to the meeting, but a coworker is out and I can't get off work. I have been looking to try to find a copy of a letter to post from Xcel Energy to James Alexander in regards to the substation in SLP that would be affected if the reroute were to go through. It was pretty clear that ...

Nice pic!
I was amazed to see the amount of demo work that was done over the weekend.

Does anyone have any idea on where McLaughlin stands on this? In the October CMC meeting all members (except Rybak) voted to recommend the shallow tunnel option, including McLaughlin. Recently McLaughlin seems more dismissive of the shallow tunnel option (note the "little cities" comment ...

It seems the charges took a little more than just the remaining ring beam. Do you suppose the corner portions that came down were planned?

Hodges and Mclaughlin have their minds made up I guess. It doesn't seem to matter that the railroad company that plans on using the track has the same concerns about this re-route plan as it has had with all of the others. The risk for derailment is a real concern with the curves and the length of t...

Top of the back wall of the Dome just collapsed. Construction workers on the webcam are all standing around and talking- looks like it may not have been intentional. I had noticed the same thing after checking out the webcam when I returned from lunch. I called up my brother and told him it looked ...

I was there last night and it was great to hear so many voices getting to have their say. The article in the Strib by Doyle was disappointing and the crowd estimate was absurd. The auditorium was about 90% full and had to be 3 times what Doyle stated. Terry from Tran Systems was just a good ol' boy ...

Yep, everyone was loving "the worse venue in professional sports." Even ESPN and Fox play off the dome's horrible rep, including counting down the 10 worst Metrodome moments earlier this year. How many of those moments were football-related? I'm asking honestly. No one I know of seriously...

IMO the Met Council/Governor paid to get the study that they wanted. Now that's just silly. This study makes their job MORE difficult, not less. I expect the cost of the TranSystem plan is going to come in around $125 million. It'll be close enough to shallow tunnels to be a coin toss, budget-wise....

Here is a little perspective from TC&W. It sheds light to the "promises" supposedly made by SLP. http://www.southwestjournal.com/voices/ ... -on-sw-lrt

If this new freight re-route thing is actually viable, how the hell did we ever arrive at the whole 2-story berms situation? (Which, in turn led to the tunnels through Kenilworth situation) In retrospect, that is just really embarassing. The bottom line seems to be that a whole bunch of animosity (...

Funny, their Nic's Penthouses pic is taken from the top of the Churchill apartments. The Nic's views will be nothing close to that.

The new Wooddale intersection is TERRIBLE. If exiting onto Wooddale from 7 West, you basically have to take over the crosswalk in order to see if traffic is coming from the left. The center left turn lanes onto 7 are very quick and not well designed. Who in the world designed this thing? The initia...