The Deets

Tucked in behind a mall and a movie theater in Holland, MI is the Country Inn, where you’ll find reliable WiFi, authentic fake rustic decor, and unreliable TP folding.

Shek, Carly and I knocked off Nokomis and 30th Aves South on Sunday, passing through the Nokomis neighborhoods Keewaydin, Wenonah, Standish and Ericsson neighborhoods. Heading south on 30th Ave from Minnehaha Parkway, we passed the Nokomis East Neighborhood Association HQ at 50th St E. A couple blocks further south, I spotted some shoefiti on a [...]

I have a few more blocks to go in the Longfellow neighborhood before I’ve closed off everything to the east of Hiawatha. Heading North on 32nd Ave S, I passed Walgreens at E Lake St. This place is great if you’re not in a hurry to pick up a prescription. But, they do have text [...]

Here is a sample of the comments on a story Bill Hudson did for Channel 4 regarding a paid credit score analyzing service: annmartina This is news? Seems more like a free ad for this service jwahlberg Agreed with annamartina – this is what I call “rip-off journalism.” dan This is basically an ad for [...]

An LA Times piece regarding the ridiculousness of the TV show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” (on TLC [The Learning Channel] asks whether the show is really just a campaign commercial. Answer: Of course it is. But, what interested me most was a quote from a Republican campaign strategist, Ken Khachigian, (a senior strategist to the losing [...]

I snapped this shot 48 minutes outside of Holland, Michigan last week. That’s my Sprint Evo Android phone being used as a GPS, being powered by a power inverter sitting on the floor, and plugged into the stereo’s auxiliary jack of my rental car. That’s how I roll on the road these days. The podcasts [...]

I’m not saying that search engine traffic is important for advertising revenue. I’m just saying that it plays a significant role. In the case of this site, it accounts for around 80% of AdSense revenues. Your numbers may vary. For example, if your site is not search engine friendly, you’ll probably earn a larger percentage [...]

Well, that’s one interpretation of real estate assessments. In general, homes in the Longfellow community and nearby Standish-Ericsson held their values better than most other parts of the city. Longfellow’s Cooper section, for example, was the only residential area in the city where the median home value didn’t fall between 2009 and 2010, in the [...]

Property tax assessment season is in full swing in Minneapolis, with people receiving jaw dropping notices regarding how much their taxes have gone up. In my case, the bump is 16.3%. Ouch. As I understand it, the challenges here is that proposed tax increase numbers thrown around at a city level are considerably different by [...]

According to consulting firm HR&A Advisors Inc., St. Paul should encourage local businesses to set up shop in St. Paul’s Union Depot. I like the way they think. People coming into St. Paul from the suburbs or other states via rail are not looking for an experience they can have at home. I also think [...]