Archive: March 2011

There it is.  The dreaded pothole.  It is the curse of our streets at this time of year.  The temperature changes combine with the moisture and create the failure in our road building materials that cause us drive more attentively, …
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There is a good article in today’s Star Tribune by Josephine Marcotty entitled: “Road salt turning Twin Cities lakes into dead seas.”  This isn’t the first piece the Star Tribune has done about the future (and perhaps current) impact of …
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I sat down with the managers of the City’s enterprises last week (plus the Parks & Recreation Director, Communications & Marketing Director and the Assistant Finance Director) to start something new here:  internal peer review. It probably goes by other …
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All the experts are predicting a very rough spring of flooding in Minnesota.  Most of us are accustomed to watching the Red River rise and fall in northwestern Minnesota, but this spring we are expecting to see significant flooding risk …
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Yes, that photo to the left was the cause of an actual clogged sewer in the Edina sanitary sewer collection system, so called because its purpose is to collect wastewater from the residents, businesses and guests of the City and then …
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Governor Dayton’s proposed 2012-2013 biennial state budget includes a new State property tax on what are referred to as “extremely high valued homes”, which in the budget is defined as single-unit residential homesteaded and non-homesteaded properties, including agricultural and seasonal-recreational homes …
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There are almost as many ways to measure tax burden as there are ways to tax.  One that’s going to get more attention in Minnesota very soon is the comparison of one’s property taxes to one’s taxable income.  It’s part …
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Most communities have created ways to recognize their citizens for acts of courage, community service or just good old fashioned good citizen-ness.  In Edina, we’ve got a couple of notable awards that our bestowed by the City.  Currently, our  Human Rights …
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