I dug out my copy of Hiding in Plain Sight, a history of the Marcy Holmes neighborhood (guess where I found it), but its index contains no Sarah Fagan. It does mention a John C Fagan but only that he purchased some property from someone else. No offense to the plaque, but I don't know how someone could be considered a pioneer of a neighborhood that was settled some five decades before her birth.

Can you at least warn us before reproducing the transcript of a murder? A lot of us start our day with this column...

I've always liked that mosaic, probably because I'm a map geek, but I've also always interpreted it as the sort of bureaucratic self-congratulation piece that I imagine littered the public spaces of the Soviet Bloc - after all, the mosaic is a celebration of the MAC as not only the benevolent overlord watching over us from above but also the dominating feature of the Twin Cities geography. All hail wise MAC, who keepeth our consumers ever aloft towards Vegas and strategically loaneth large...

I try to visit businesses impacted by the Central Corridor project as much as I can, but since I don't have a car (and thereby am unable to use and complain about the luxurious express automobile facility built between the downtowns at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars and dozens of square blocks of intact neighborhoods), it's difficult for me to get to St Paul.

But one business I can get to quite easily is the Acadia Cafe. I've noticed no change in business - it's still...