I recently took a look at online search demand over at Google Trends for the term “Vikings” to get feel for how much people care about Minnesota’s current local NFL team. I managed to uncover a few interesting nuggets. Vikings searches spike on Sundays, but people do search for the term “vikings” throughout the week: [...]
Funny stuff. @karlasand dropped a link to this article about documented liar, Cory Meffield, on her Twitter account: Then a strange thing happened: it disappeared. Perhaps she realized that Cory did indeed blatantly lie about me to his Twitter friends?
Documented liar, Cory Merrifield, went on a bit of a Twitter rampage calling me a coward for, apparently, documenting some of his lies and asking whether we should trust the guy. When it comes to Cory’s coward accusations, he’s not exactly lying, but there is a misunderstanding here that he’s based his assumptions on that [...]
and: Here we have a guy in Fairmont telling a guy in Shakopee . . . . . . . that people in Ramsey County shouldn’t have a right to vote on whether their taxes are increased to make debt payments on $350,000,000 borrowed to meet Zygi Wilf’s Wilfare demands. These are two examples of [...]
I had a chance to attend the Ramsey County Charter Commission’s public hearing tonight in New Brighton, where the public had a chance to share their opinions on whether the charter commission should authorize a vote on an amendment to the county’s charter to specifically call for no public dollars (current, or through new taxes) [...]
Rochelle Olson’s latest piece in the StarTribune regarding Zygi Wilf’s Vikings stadium welfare proposal includes an oft-repeated talking point about stadium welfare fairness: The Vikings have repeatedly said they want to be treated like the Minnesota Twins were when Target Field was built. The Hennepin County Board approved a 0.15 percent sales tax increase for [...]
Doug Grow has a nice round-up at MinnPost of the opinions from people involved in previous stadium welfare negotiations regarding the current Vikings stadium Wilfare proposal on the table to build 21,000 parking places (and a stadium) in Arden Hills with $650,000,000 of the public’s money. The general sentiment is that the Vikings will stick [...]
Back in May 2009, I wrote about how strange it was that state Attorney Generals would go through the effort to shut down erotic services related ads on Craigslist. At the time, I predicted the following fall-out: 1. People looking to sell themselves on Craigslist will shift to other categories, polluting non-sexual services classifieds categories [...]
The StarTribune recently ran a story about a Minnesota based above-ground pool company that’s heavily Google dependent for business: The Backer brothers say their online business, B. W. Inc., wouldn’t last long if it appeared way down the list of a Google search. “If you’re not on the first page,” said Jay Backer, “you can [...]
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