Archive: April 2011

Measuring work performance of human beings can be challenging.  There are some professions that are easier to measure than others, but for most employees in  both the public and private sectors, the measurement of work performance can really end up being a …
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I read an interesting post the other day in a blog that is sponsored by Twin Cities Business Magazine.  An organization called NAIOP wants to study and recommend ways in which local governments could explain their spending decisions to the public.  …
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There’s an article in yesterday’s Star Tribune entitled “In Edina, they speak their mind, and on TV” that describes a recent discussion the Council and I had about changing the City Council’s meeting agenda.  I initiated the discussion with the …
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At our April 5 City Council meeting, the Council received a presentation from Ms. Lucia Hunt from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture about her department’s plan this summer to treat an anticipated infestation of Gypsey Moths here in Edina.  Most …
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Good article in the Edina Patch about the City’s liquor ordinance.  Click here for the link:  Will There Ever Be A Happy Hour In Edina? It’s a fair question.  The City’s current liquor ordinance does not allow a number of …
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Demo can be shorthand for “demonstration”.  Not in this case though.  Demo means “demolition”. Demo started this week on the former Storables and Thomasville Furniture stores on France Avenue.  That’s a photo of what the former Thomasville store looked like …
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