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Matt Pogatshnik

Minneapolis
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Posted on 05/14/13 at 11:41 am in response to Practical considerations aside, Vikings stadium design is impressive

I am concerned that, considering the proximity of the Guthrie, that having the the coolest and, arguably, the smartest building in Minnesota so near what will be the ugliest and most, um, intellectually-challenged, building in Minnesota (if not the world) will, like matter and anti-matter colliding, create some sort of black hole or, at the very least, a tear in the fabric of space and time.

Posted on 04/10/13 at 01:03 pm in response to I love New York, but ...

At one point do you give up the hits from aghast readers and commenters and decide to break ties?

The Greenway vs. Highline via broken ankles and open lots? Has Marlys been on the Greenway? That's almost all it is and it's still awesome. Broken ankles? Somebody nearly hit a biker with a Molotov Cocktail the other day. . . And the Greenway is still awesome.

This and the Portland-hate Series, they do nothing. We're here. The Twin Cities are spectacular. We don't need to compare...

Posted on 06/22/12 at 11:20 am in response to Conflicted over Trader Joe's in Minneapolis

If you find a bike at Flanders for 400 bucks, let me know.

I have to say: this is one of the strangest articles I've ever read at MinnPost. Is it an editorial? Is this news? Why the "whatever" in response to the tea shop owner's desire for good feng shui? The council member was a "school marm" with "the tiniest of sneers"? Then the gist of the headline isn't addressed until a throwaway sentence at the end of the fifth "paragraph".

As a member of MinnPost, the tone of this...

Posted on 06/26/12 at 10:30 am in response to Conflicted over Trader Joe's in Minneapolis

I think your well-written post essentially exposes what some of the comments, mine included, were perceiving in the article. You addressed all of the issues at hand within the context of the history and future of urban planning without any editorializing.

Frankly, I'm fine with the details of zoning. C2? C1? The politics and history driving those arbitrary designations? It's fascinating to me, personally, and pretty relevant to the story.

What's not relevant to the story?...

Posted on 06/13/12 at 10:18 am in response to Ramsey County estimates $1.7 million per biennium for state-issued Voter ID

Yes, because our right to eat pork is totally under fire from Muslims.

Posted on 05/16/12 at 09:34 pm in response to In the shadow of elevators, streets spawn artists, broken hearts

I think my favorite building on Minnehaha is the Simmons Manor Apartments. Originally an elementary school, it then housed a school for radio and TV repair before becoming an apartment building. If those squeaky wood floors could talk, no?

Posted on 05/02/12 at 12:47 am in response to Legislators’ out-of-blue stadium proposal badly fumbles trust issue

If there was ever a typo masquerading as a Freudian Slip:

"It’s about our jobs, our future, out team."

What I think is so fantastic about this whole mess, is that Dayton has pushed this deal knowing that it sucks for Minneapolis and the state while simultaneously knowing that GOP in the legislature hasn't the cajones to pass it. As long as he makes like the answer man and not "The Governor that Lost the Vikings", he (and the Democrats) win (or, at least, don't loose).

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Posted on 04/25/12 at 12:13 pm in response to Minneapolis' contribution to Vikes stadium: $675 million

Dennis-

By the 'give me free stuff" crowd, you mean the Wilfs, right?

Posted on 01/16/12 at 12:25 pm in response to White Bear Lake couple missing on Italian cruise ship

Recently, I was cleaning up some old boxes and found my outstate MN fishing licenses from 1987 and 88. In 87, for a 17 year-old, it cost $19.25 to fish and, a year later it was 21.50.

In 1988 dollars, I had to work about two days at minimum wage for a summer's worth of fishing. It seemed worth it then and, frankly, I would pay twice that to be able fish half the time today.

Does anybody want to guess how much money the state would loose if the Game and Fish fund went...

Posted on 12/09/11 at 02:40 pm in response to Why are Minneapolis and Ramsey County playing by different rules in stadium bids?

I don't know: I bet a person could do a pretty cool job of opening up that Armory and doing a re-design/expansion that would combine a modern getting-drunk-before-a-sporting-event experience with references to the building's history. Anything has to be better than filling that nice Art Deco building with cars.