In a big win for Fair Vote Minnesota, supporters of Instant Runoff Voting (also known as Ranked Choice Voting) secured the role of their preferred electoral style with a very favorable ruling from the Minnesota Supreme Court. In an opinion written by Chief Justice Eric Magnuson, IRV’s role in this November’s election in Minneapolis got [...]
The League of Minnesota Cities and other government lobbying groups have summoned mayors and other local elected officials to the Capitol today to protest Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s highly likely forthcoming unallotment of more local government aid (LGA).
Recall that in December 2008 Pawlenty unalloted $110 million in LGA.
The number one DFL rallying cry this last weekend [...]
Press Release: A Kitchen Table Conversation About Minneapolis and Its Future
Source: Center of the American Experiment
Moderated by Mitch Pearlstein
Center of the American Experiment
Directions
Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Hilton Minneapolis
1001 Marquette Avenue South
Minneapolis
Peter Bell
Chairman, Metropolitan Council
Gary Cunningham
Vice President, Northwest Area Foundation
R. T. Rybak
Mayor of Minneapolis
Historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead is credited with drawing a very useful [...]
Curious to know what kinds of infrastructure projects the Twin Cities are touting for possible funding with proceeds from the $800 billion federal stimulus package?
PIM contacted the mayors’ offices in both cities for their lists of infrastructure projects that are "shovel-ready"–or nearly so. Neither list, we should point out, is a complete record of all [...]
Curious to know what kinds of infrastructure projects the Twin Cities are touting for possible funding with proceeds from the $800 billion federal stimulus package?
PIM contacted the mayors’ offices in both cities for their lists of infrastructure projects that are "shovel-ready"–or nearly so. Neither list, we should point out, is a complete record of all [...]
On Thursday morning, as the RNC geared up for its final day, storm clouds were gathering over downtown St. Paul -
by Staff
Published: August 9, 2007
Tags: Bridge Collapse, Document, Download, I-35W Bridge, Minneapolis, MnDOT, PDF, Transportation, University of Minnesota, URS
MnDOT has released five documents on its website relating specifically to the I-35W bridge (bridge number 9340) which we have
packaged
into a zip file (35 MB). The
files
include an outside consultant review, a
University of Minnesota Civil
Engineering field report, two brief status
summary documents, and, most
troubling, a MnDOT “Fracture Critical”
engineering summary which reveals in
candid descriptions and shocking photographs
the deterioration [...]
