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Like all crime data, the number is basically made up--I wouldn't worry about the chart. The situation has been steadily improving for about a year, though my personal "days since experiencing a train fiasco" counter is only at five.

"I don't think that we should let things go unstudied just because nobody has done it," said Bloomington City Manager Jamie Verbrugge, who submitted a letter of support for the study.

Jamie, no!

I have once again forgotten to turn off the credit card autopay for our hosting--you all have an eleven month notice that this is going to go away if no one wants it.

No one at any level of anything is going to get in trouble for it taking five times longer and it costing five times more than it should, but a lot of people will get a piece of the delay and overrun.

That is wild.

better social safety net, transit not being seen as a place of last resort I wish we could have a conversation around these things instead of having to convince people who never ride transit not to spend all our transit money on useless gates and fences. A majority of the issues with Metro Transit ...

https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2023 ... good-idea/

Bill has managed to be the first person in the media to describe how and why the turnstiles are physically not workable. Good work, Bill.

It’s gotta be the snowflake.

“If you keep doing things that are a bad idea, it may eventually be a problem”

- Me in 2013

“Shut. Up!”

- everyone in charge of anything in 2013

Didn't there used to be one in Uptown next to the McDonald's?

I shoulda bought at the Towers

Some personal news--I'm so excited to announce that I've accepted a position as the city administrator of East Bethel.

Which I also haven't heard much about--there are non-garbage ways to produce steam (there are other steam plants downtown) but presumably the electricity for that comes from somewhere?

Do you take the train a lot here?

At this point, I have a medium-length list of places in my head where there was a redevelopment and we missed an opportunity to reconnect the grid. We blew a lot of money on watercolors for unnecessary small area plans in random parts of the city from ~1990 to ~2015, while there were a lot of areas ...

Thank you.

You generally have to do the companion certificate pretty far in advance. They've gotten real stingy with it. Had to layover in Atlanta like an animal on the way back from North Carolina on Sunday.

I wonder why Starbucks would close the store on the Commons and reopen over here so quickly?

Can't blame them for not foreseeing the pandemic, but the county spending fifty million on the Thrivent building (and taking a half block of downtown off the tax rolls) at the same time the city was building a new office building across the street was a real missed opportunity.