Great reporting!

Yes I watched.

Both? I see lots of handing out and little of trying to figure out how to attract investment in the city. It can’t all be looking to find more money from current sources.

I don’t disagree with that. It falls within their purview.

Seems like it’s just one in a long list of things that strike some of us as indicating a lack of concentration on the basics.

Cops or maybe it’s some security is already there these days.

I’d assert that needing to recess a meeting twice to restore order isn’t common behavior for most governmental bodies.

Reported or I think editorialized by WaPo over a month ago and didn’t seem to be picked up much. That funding has been in place all along, not impacted by these efforts.

Which happens a minuscule amount of time. The donor directs the funding so implying the Mpls Fdn is independently making these decisions is a real stretch.

How much of that is from donor advised funds?

Plus the author never mentioned a Smokey Jose. Fail.

How brave and useful to trot out the troubles of his kid.

My only pushback is saying criticizing the only people who are doing something. You don’t know that. You don’t know if behind the scenes work is more effective in getting the actual result we want, which is to have outrageous tactics stop and get them out of here.

Point taken.

I can’t believe I’m weighing in but I will. I didn’t read Blois as saying do nothing. He said do something different. The press conferences etc aren’t producing the desired results. Something more surgical behind the scenes might. Why not worth a try? Or even both/and?

You weren’t the only one.

It will be interesting to see what this does to Pilates. Tough to do both the membership fee and Pilates cost. Or maybe I’m just speaking for myself.

Any new credible rumors on the YMCA discounted rate for seniors?

I wish they’d do it quickly. There’s not a lot of time to figure out options that might exist elsewhere.

BCBS did it.

Beyond annoying. Health Partners still has both the Y and Lifetime for 2026.

Mike used to live across the street from me. Great neighbor, great guy. Saw problems and fixed them.

Do I want to look? Not really. But the 2nd (or 3rd?) year in a row that house value declined. So my taxes *only* up 4%.

They’ll have you covered if you want a liver pate, beet and lingonberry smorrebrod, which you should.

Torvehallerne (sp?) food market in Copenhagen is terrific and something we should have in MSP. A million food and drink and a few shops stalls. Indoor and outdoor.

And I’ve always been told that high voter turnout is a good thing. Hmmm

Hey!!

I know-that’s what I said. When you said you wanted partisan RCV primaries and then said it’s fun to think about DFLers complaining about the DSA I thought that implied a primary between the DFL and DSA. My error!

But wouldn’t the DSA need to be a party of its own rather than just the group within the DFL?

Darn. Everyone gets to vote. Sad!