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Charlie Quimby

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Golden Valley, MN
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Posted on 07/12/12 at 01:49 pm in response to City Council Member Samuels pulls out of county board race; 9 still running in primary

In Contrast to Samuels' shrunken support?

Posted on 07/02/12 at 10:44 am in response to Rhode Island adopts ‘homeless bill of rights’: Do we need one?

"someone brushing their teeth in the Convention Center bathroom or urinating in the street."

I'm all for St. Stephen's stepping in to address the bigger problems, but what do you think happens when public restrooms are put off limits for people who don't have a home or place of work?

Posted on 06/29/12 at 07:25 pm in response to Subtle conservative victories lurk within the health care ruling

States should be allowed to go to hell on their great white steed without interference from a federal government that is trying to get them to help all their citizens.

Posted on 07/02/12 at 03:28 pm in response to Political parallels — and Rybak's incredible turnaround on subsidies

Ultimately, Nixon's decision to engage China was the right thing to do. Whether or not Rybak made the right decision, comparing him to Nixon here is really a rhetorical device draping him with all the other Nixonian baggage.

Posted on 06/07/12 at 08:22 pm in response to When it comes to public subsidies, Twin Cities light rail seems a bargain

Parking consumes expensive downtown real estate and is often subsidized by employers. In outlying areas, it appears to be free, but its cost is still built into leases and the price of products. Because suburban land is relatively cheap, parking spreads out instead of up, creating greater run off when it rains and requiring more snow removal per vehicle.

Finally, an excess of parking spaces is required by zoning based on occupancy or projected customer counts of individual buildings....

Posted on 06/06/12 at 09:46 pm in response to Attacks on ALEC undermine efforts to reach common ground

The difference between ALEC and, say the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, is that the Caucus appears to put forward some examples of state legislation as potential models, while ALEC provides cookie-cutter bills to state legislators who sometimes fail to remove the boilerplate language before they introduce them.

And let's not even talk about the difference in money, scale or breadth of the effort.

ALEC is an attempt to impose conservative/libertarian governance on...

Posted on 07/11/12 at 01:23 pm in response to In the shadow of elevators, streets spawn artists, broken hearts

Another small pleasure of Minnehaha in places is how the houses on opposite sides are oriented differently — to the diagonal Minnehaha and the dominant street grid.

http://greatdivide.typepad.com/across_the_great_divide/2008/08/keeping-t...

Posted on 07/11/12 at 01:39 pm in response to Hiawatha struggles to become a destination, not a corridor

I agree with all your observations except the last one. The author isn't being intellectually dishonest in comparing the Central Corridor and Hiawatha, but as other comments show, she's out of her depth.

Posted on 04/09/12 at 11:13 am in response to Brodkorb heads back to university to finish his degree

Going back to school now, Michael will probably get more out of it than when he was younger. My main criticism of him has been that — for all his aggressive political activity — he seemed to have little to no interest in policy or how that affected people's lives and the quality of life in this state.

Studying political science might broaden him now that he's out of the political fray.

Or it just might make him more dangerous.

Posted on 03/19/12 at 06:56 pm in response to Doonesbury and Mohammed

Publishing Doonesbury might've attracted nasty grams from readers, but that's about it. Editors who ran Mohammed cartoons in the wake of the controversy had to worry about a car bomb at 425 Portland.

Courageous ones ran it. Others chose not to offend.