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Entries for July, 2011

A Look at Longfellow in the Minneapolis Bike Plan

Minneapolis 2nd Ward City Council Member, Cam Gordon, recently blogged about the new Minneapolis Bike Plan which outlines what we have today and where things should head in the future. There are some great ideas in this plan. It looks like some solid work went into putting this together, and I hope the plan is [...]

Minneapolis Public Schools Administrators Underpaid According to Minneapolis Public Schools Administrators’ Study

Corey Mitchell reports in the StarTribune that Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent, Bernadeia Johnson, kicked $270k to her administrative staff after reading a report suggesting that they were paid less than comparable administrators in other districts. I found this sentence particularly interesting: The pay hikes, retroactive to July 2010, were paid out in lump sums. What [...]

Hijacking StarTribune’s Solar Comments in a Good Way

As anyone who’s attempted to read comments on the StarTribune.com knows, things can get pretty ridiculous there. While they do seem to have improved a bit over the past year, something about the anonymity, lax moderation, or lack of quality filtering seems to bring out the worst in people there. Or, maybe it just discourages [...]

Tim Pawlenty in a Parking Lot Recreation: University of Washington Edition

I’m giving this another try from another coast. Rat suggested that I “Lose the shorts.” Done.

La Quinta Downtown Seattle TP

La Quinta Downtown Seattle TP, originally uploaded by edkohler. It’s good to have a backup after taking down some free coffee and waffles in the morning.

Did the Minneapolis Public Schools Hire a Company Before it Existed?

Could someone help me figure this one out? The consent agenda item awarding Don Allen $15,000 for his horrible marketing pieces (hidden under the initials DWRA2) describes the contract like this: DWRA2 contract to provide video production services to the Office of Communications for the period November 23, 2010 through June 30, 2011. The contract [...]

Tim Pawlenty in a Parking Lot Recreation: Penn State Edition

This is my attempt to recreate the magic that is Tim Pawlenty’s campaign photo from a parking lot outside a stadium in Omaha. Penn State’s Beaver Stadium was my backdrop. I think this shot alone has boosted my poll numbers to somewhere between Bachmann and Pawlenty in Happy Valley.

Why Did the Minneapolis Public Schools Waste $15k With Don Allen?

Sheila Regan’s two part series on the Minneapolis Public Schools contract procedures, and their strange choice to do business with Don Allen, brought out some interesting nuggets. For one, it mentioned that the work Don Allen was paid $15k for is now available online. Here is video #1: and video #2: Personally, I think these [...]

@MNGOP Defends the 7,700 Making $2,688,312 Per Year #mnshutdown

Rat brought up an interesting point regarding the revenue potential from creating a new top-tier tax rate on incomes above $1 million per year for the next two years as Dayton has proposed. While I pointed out that a person making $1,00,001 per year would only get hit with 4 cent bump to their tax [...]

Taxing $1,000,001+ Incomes for Two Years #mnshutdown

On Wednesday afternoon I Tweeted this in Gov. Dayton’s direction: Followed up with this Tweet to Kevin Watterson, the MN House GOP media services guy: This lead to a response from an Apple Valley based Conservative/Libertarian who questioned my figures: I do appreciate having my math questioned. If we can’t agree upon the facts, what [...]

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