One thing about the MN GOP campaign operatives take on Minneapolis’ tap water promotion PR campaign that stands out to me is that they’re pretending that Minneapolis is somehow unique in their efforts to promote tap water. That’s an absurd assumption since Minneapolis’ tap water situation is not all that unique. Cities around the world [...]
Yesterday I looked at the impact declining tap water use may have on a municipality. In a nutshell, if fewer people use tap water, the system may become more difficult to support, which may lead to lower quality drinking water for those who rely on taps over bottled water (hundreds of times more expensive). Because [...]
Marty Seifert campaign consultant, Ben Golnik, thinks my recent take on the MN GOP’s anti-Minneapolis tap water stance was “preposterous“: Note: While I think it’s preposterous that the MN GOP’s would take such a shallow stance, I want to be clear that I don’t think all Republicans are anti-tap water. This is just the kind [...]
File this under, “you can’t make this stuff up.” The Republican Party of Minnesota has released a statement verifying that they’re anti-tap water. It comes within an anti RT Rybak statement that’s consistently absurd: “After eight years of massive property tax hikes, irresponsible police cuts and millions in wasteful spending on artistic water fountains, the [...]
I found myself reading the UMD Statesman, as I’m wont to do, when I stumbled across an opinion piece by Ryan Lyk. For those of you not familiar with Ryan, he is a self-proclaimed “Rising voice of the Republican Party.” Sounds impressive, eh? (Have I been spending too much time in Canada?) Mr. Lyk wrote [...]
Inside YP has an industry look at the recent attempt in Colorado to create an opt-out system for phone book deliveries. In the end, the attempt to create an opt-out system died in at 8-3 committee vote, so things did get very far. The yellow pages industry seems to be having some success fighting legislation [...]
It seems like self-proclaimed social media marketing gurus in this town like to get together on a regular basis to discuss the same case studies over and over again. Yes, Punch is good at running time sensitive promotions on Twitter. But what else is happening? Here are five that seem to be flying under the [...]
Dex One – the new brand for phone directory company, R.H. Donnelley – has reported (PDF) that they sold 20% less dollars worth of advertising in 2009 than 2008. They’re projecting that 2010 will be better than 2009. Not through growth, but by declining at a lesser rate. Dex One . . . cautiously projected [...]
John Moe’s Candy Club on Twitter cracks me up. In a nutshell, once a week, John and his fellow candy enthusiasts pick a candy to all try at the same time on Twitter, then tweet about their experiences with it. You can follow along on Twitter’s search engine by searching for the #candyclub hashtag. The [...]
What what I’ve heard, the window on the side of the new Dairy Queen near Minnehaha Park is going to be used as a bike drive thru. As far as I know, this is the first of its kind in Minneapolis. I can imagine this filling up with families in their 6-person bike rentals from [...]
