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Charlie Quimby

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Golden Valley, MN
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Posted on 05/14/13 at 12:09 pm in response to Practical considerations aside, Vikings stadium design is impressive

Sounds like the retractable roofs turn out like high-rise balconies. According to realtors, everybody wants them and hardly anyone uses them.

Posted on 05/14/13 at 12:16 pm in response to Practical considerations aside, Vikings stadium design is impressive

Both the Metrodome and Target Center were the product of compromises and started out dated. The Dome tried to serve both baseball and football and failed baseball miserably. Target Center's design was pedestrian, so bad a midcourse redo was demanded—resulting in an applique more suitable for an Eden Prairie mall.

At least here the designers approached the challenges with intelligence and imagination.

Posted on 03/12/13 at 11:33 am in response to For safety’s sake, light up those bikes

I missed the part where Harris said the cyclist had no light. So, apparently, did the cop who was there and could have cited to rider.

The cyclist appeared "out of nowhere," which is how cyclists and pedestrians always appear when drivers are not paying attention or are looking only for cars. This happens all the time in broad daylight, especially when drivers are turning.

I tend to light up like a Christmas tree when riding at night and never assume I know a driver's intention...

Posted on 02/11/13 at 07:59 pm in response to Karma's knife-twist: I have to take freshman comp

I agree with Sylvia. This should be fun for you and the prof.

Freshman comp is wasted on freshmen.

Posted on 02/08/13 at 05:28 pm in response to 3 reasons why Dayton’s property tax plan is wrong-headed

Ginny Martin's comment confuses Mark Haveman's former Minnesota Taxpayers Association, quoted in the story, with the Minnesota Taxpayers League.

It was about time the organization changed its name to eliminate the confusion, since it is a respected, centrist, nonpartisan group that has done comparative research for years that is very valuable to those of us who follow tax and investment issues at the state level.

Posted on 12/21/12 at 05:23 pm in response to Go ahead and judge Jana Pullman’s books by their covers

Jana Pullman's work is exquisite and she deserves this recognition. So too, does Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA), where Jana teaches, volunteers and has been a long-time anchoring presence. Open Book is the building in which MCBA is located.

Posted on 11/12/12 at 12:35 pm in response to The self-blinding brilliance of Jason Lewis

Yep, the money cry has gone up from the ill-managed GOP as an excuse for candidate losses, too.

Lewis can't fathom that non-lefties helped defeat these amendments in a divided electorate.

Lewis considers money to equal speech, but he can't fathom that money doesn't equal sense.

Posted on 11/07/12 at 04:19 pm in response to Republicans try to figure out what went wrong with legislative races

The last two years afforded the electorate a closer look at what happens when second-rate talent and unethical characters join with the arrogant and ambitious to assume power as a majority.

I hope the DFL can focus on serving the entire state and the GOP can draw lessons about the limits of extremism, but I've been wrong about this before.

Posted on 11/06/12 at 02:46 pm in response to 3 crazy ideas to lure people to downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul

The West End is a wanna-be downtown development. But struggling? Every time I've been there, I've marveled at the traffic. Chicago-Lake's savvy John Wolf is opening a big discount liquor store in the area. Housing is sprouting all around.

We're not far away in Golden Valley, but we just purchased a condo in the real downtown, which looks pretty good to us.

Posted on 10/24/12 at 11:23 pm in response to Catholic guilt by association: how Minnesota marriage amendment politics hurt Land Stewardship Project

The church's mission to empower the poor and marginalized has always been in conflict with its quest for temporal power. This is the last gasp of an aging and irrelevant male hierarchy. Around the world, Catholic churches are empty or in ruins, many of its nominal adherents are poor with no prospects for their families, and the gold and power still sit in Rome.

Where the church's social justice work is being done, I don't see religious doctrine being pushed like this at all but the...