The Deets

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A certain segment of uber-loyal Minnesota Vikings fans seem to believe that cleaning up a Superfund site so it can then be paved over to create a 21,000 car parking lot is the key to happiness. These same fans have loyally attended every Vikings home game in the Metrodome, so it seems like they are [...]

The Fergus Falls Journal has a roundup of opinions from legislators grappling with how to find hundreds of millions of dollars to build a 21,000 car parking lot for Zygi Wilf in Arden Hills (aka The People’s Parking Lot). It’s interesting to note that even legislators who support redistributing the state’s wealth to a guy [...]

Former 7th Congressional District candidate (GOP), Alan Roebke posed an interesting proposal for how to solve the Vikings stadium issue: Sell the Metrodome to the players. So I’m proposing we bring competition or a predator into the Vikings stadium debate by offering the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome to the NFL Players Association for $10, just [...]

Patrick Reusse points on in the StarTribune that it’s not in the public’s interest to build a 21,000 car parking lot for Zygi Wilf: The latest rough estimates are $900 million for a stadium at the Metrodome site (including demolition) and $1.1 billion at Arden Hills. Which means, even if Zygi chooses to pout and [...]

Twitter’s new activity tab is pretty interesting. It shows who your friends have recently followed, favorited, or retweeted. I’ve already used it to discover some interesting people that I find interesting have found interesting, thus shortening the time until I found them from an eventual retweet to the follow action. But, then I saw this: [...]

Here is another excerpt from the presentation I gave on 11/3 at the 331 Club to the Drinking Liberally crowd. This one addresses whether using money from the Legacy Fund is appropriate, and whether it has any legs: Building Zygi World! Part II from Steve Timmer on Vimeo. While Michael Brodkorb seems to be on [...]

When people start up brand new Twitter accounts and immediately start making ad hominem attacks against me on Twitter, I tend to think they are Josh Hewitt. I don’t know if he’s the guy behind this account yet, but it does mirror his tactics and style. Here is the latest example from earlier today:

The headline to the StarTribune’s polling on Vikings stadium wilfare sentiment really nailed it: If public helps fund new stadium, gambling is top choice The key word being “if”. As the polling clearly stated, the vast majority of Minnesotans do not support public subsidies for a new Vikings stadium. They aren’t opposed to the Vikings. [...]

Guess who’s still littering the City of Minneapolis with illegal snipe advertising? Jesse Olson! You may remember real estate agent Jesse Olson from a May 2010 Faces of Snipe. In fact, Jesse Olson was the very first illegal advertiser highlighted in Faces of Snipe. Apparently, Jesse didn’t get the message. I talked to Jesse tonight, [...]