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David Frenkel

Edina, MN
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Posted on 05/17/13 at 11:00 am in response to From the Mayo to Vietnam, neurosurgeon Paul Pitlyk remembers

I have not read the book yet but I can imagine the gruesome details of a bloody war. The media tends to shy away and sometimes glamorize war which it is the farthest from the truth. It is difficult for those who have seen the horrors to talk about them so I commend Dr Pitlyk for telling his story in apparently vivid detail. We need to hear more of these stories to remind us we should not take going to war lightly with the inevitable loss of life.

Posted on 05/16/13 at 02:51 pm in response to Bachmann, Tea Party rally against IRS disclosures

This is all grandstanding by Bachmann to leverage her next job opportunity after she hopefully decides not to run for Congress again. She enjoys the limelight of DC and will probably end up making millions as a lobbyist.

Posted on 05/12/13 at 12:51 am in response to Keep the integrity of Minnesota's high-school diploma

The US has some pretty ugly statistics that certainly hurt the success of American children including high child poverty rates (20%), high parental divorce rates (60%), and high incarceration rates.
If children are just trying to survive school becomes secondary.

Posted on 05/11/13 at 09:40 am in response to Should the U.S. get militarily involved in Syria?

The US is involved via Israel who has been using US made fighter jets to bomb Syria, probably us weapons an probably US intelligence. The US is the largest arms dealer in the world and to say the US is not involved in conflicts that use US weapons is a fallacy.

Posted on 05/09/13 at 02:11 pm in response to New N.D. oil projections offer opportunities for Minnesota businesses

The State of MN needs some type of organization to encourage and promote doing business with ND.
There is an old business saying about following the money trail, there is plenty of it in ND.
I set up a Linkedin group about business opportunities in ND and in less than 6 months there are over 1000 members.

Posted on 05/08/13 at 02:22 pm in response to What makes people attached to a city?

Where you choose to live and subsequent attachment is often a matter of circumstance or some perception of the community. In any case there is no Utopian place to live it is all about trade offs.
We all go through the cycles of life where different things become important beyond just a job. When you are a young adult outdoor activities might be important, when you have children schools and family become more important and when you retire warm weather might be important.
I have...

Posted on 05/03/13 at 11:12 am in response to Despite predictions of doom, strip malls live on

One factor this short generalizing article did not discuss is the churning of retailers at many strip malls. While the malls may have high occupancy rates at any given time when a retailer or anchor leaves it can cause concern for the rest of the tenants. In Edina there is a neighborhood strip mall on Valley View and Wooddale that has 2 empty retail slots and the traffic there would be hard to justify opening another retail outlet.

Posted on 05/01/13 at 09:48 pm in response to Get ready for more White Bear Lakes: Two new looks at groundwater depletion

California has an ugly history of water waters. LA gets much of its water from mountain runoff from the Ownes valley that LA Water District purchased and drove out farmers. Some of the major agricultural areas of CA like the Salinas valley are running out of water and some areas are becoming saline from ocean water breaching lowered aquifers. CA has the usual heavy snowpack of the Sierras which MN lacks.
In ND people are literally becoming millionaires selling water to the oil...

Posted on 04/29/13 at 01:14 pm in response to Lack of diversity will hurt your bottom line, marketers warned

Look at the boardrooms of the majority of MN companies and you will find few women and even fewer minorities. Want change, it has to come from the top.

Posted on 04/29/13 at 01:10 pm in response to Klobuchar, Ellison talk Syria and Boston on 'Meet the Press'

Klobuchar needs to get somebody with a military background as an advisor/staff. 'We need to up our game' is not something they will understand at the State Department or DOD.