Maplewood Voices
(Mostly) Municipal public policy news and analysis from a citizen's point of view.
It's time
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Fruits of density: The Butanes at Nine Nights
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The Butanes provide an amazing soul revue at the Minnesota Historical Society's Nine Nights of Music.
Sticker
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Two nutshells
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Social Security is not "Government Spending" by Jacob Davies There's a schizophrenia over Social Security among t...
Public spaces
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Klezmer group Millie and the Mentshn warm up for Number 2 of the Minnesota History Center's 2010 Nine Nights of Music series .
Message from your mama
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If you go to a concert or other public event just to talk with your friends, go to a bar. If you stay at the event, attend to the event. Tho...
'Tis the season
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[h/t Eric Black ]
About time
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From Senator Franken's website : National League of Cities: Local Jobs for America Act Introduced in the Senate Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-O...
Solstice sunrise at Stonehenge
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h/t NASA
DFL Maplewood Endorsing Convention - Notes from the field
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On June 15 DFL Senate District 55 held an endorsing convention for the Maplewood City Council seat to be filled by special election on Aug...
The fruits of density
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Education news
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The Sunday Star Tribune for May 9, 2010 featured the fascinating front page article "State's bad teachers rarely get fired"...
In memoriam
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Honor the fallen. While we daydream, they have been serving in harm's way. [ arrangements ]
Unallotments unalloted
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From Minnpost : [The Minnesota Supreme Court ruling] affirms the previous ruling by Ramsey Chief Judge Kathleen Gearin. The summary sentence...
Presented without further comment
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Received from MinnPost in my RSS feedreader:
DFL Fourth Congressional District Convention - Notes from the field
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Diana Longrie challenged actual Democrat Representative Betty McCollum for the DFL CD 4 endorsement at today's convention in Roseville....
The failed model of 'he said, she said'
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The Preamble to the Ethics Code of the Society of Professional Journalists : Preamble Members of the Society of Professional Journalists bel...
Wally's World
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Those were the days
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Lollie News . And this today
On bipartisanship
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John Holbo at Crooked Timber : Suppose you have a two-party system. One of these parties enjoys/enforces total party discipline, the oth...
Real Democrat [Updated]
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Here is another view on the question "what does a real Democrat look like?", this time from Georgia. Update: Minnesota 6th Congres...
The 'but for' test
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Vice President Biden explains the 'but for' test: [From a CBS Special Report. The entire speech is here . The extract is from about ...
I feel better already!
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219 / 212: HR 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - passes .
President Obama, a real Democrat
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President Obama spoke to the House of Representatives Democratic Caucus on Saturday, March 20,2010 to encourage a 'Yes' vote on heal...
Land use regulation, density, and sprawl
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Matt Yglesius makes a bullet point style argument about land use regulations, density, and sprawl — Throughout America there are many regul...
Diana Longrie subject of council administrative presentation from City Attorney
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From the Maplewood City Council packet for March 22, 2010 , Agenda Item M-1: CITY ATTORNEY REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL MARCH 22, 2010 The City of...
DFL Senate District 55 news
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Most of the attention of the 160 or so delegates to today's DFL Senate District 55 convention was focused on gubernatorial candidates. T...
Please leave your car home
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While I have no great love for IBM, this commercial is interesting from an urban policy point of view. I am not sure if it is still true tod...
Fun with municipal data - Updated
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This chart documents Stage 2 of the Molsen Hydrologic Cycle. Update Astute reader TM points out that this chart only captures that portion ...
Scam Alert - Census related identity theft
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The Maplewood Police Department has issued this scam alert via Nixle : LATEST IDENTITY THEFT SCAM TRENDS: U.S. Census Scam Beginning Marc...
Ho hum - building codes
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Effective government , in this case enforced building codes, saves lives. Earthquake scientists, building engineers and political scientist...
Summit Slaughter
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Treat all Americans the same Actual Democrat Congresswoman Louise Slaughter .
Summit smackdown
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Sen. Dick Durbin to Republicans: "You think it's a socialist plot and it's wrong? For goodness sakes, drop out of the federal e...
WØrd of the day: Piñata
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From wikipedia, Piñata : A piñata is a brightly-colored papier-mâché covering either a clay container or cardboard shape. It may have origin...
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