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Pat McGee

Coon Rapids, MN
Commenter for
4 years 7 weeks

Recent Comments

Posted on 05/15/13 at 08:05 am in response to Minneapolis Police Chief Harteau comments on Friday's 'traumatic events'

Both commenters have valid points. Harteau is all about appearing on camera and her "transparency" mantra is all do as I say, not as I do.

Posted on 05/15/13 at 08:06 am in response to Practical considerations aside, Vikings stadium design is impressive

...are everything!

Posted on 05/14/13 at 02:44 pm in response to Minnesota Vikings stadium needs better urban design

...not in the middle of nowhere. A good architect would take into account the surroundings. This design does not do that. From the blinding glare it will cast to the towering blankness.

Posted on 05/08/13 at 10:03 am in response to Potholes: Minneapolis mayoral candidate Cam Winton makes his case for road repairs

are missing in many areas. He seems totally unaware of the realities of merging departments, computer systems and organizations. (re: his desire to merge several City and County departments). It would cost so many milliions of dollars and so much time, it would make his head spin. He can talk to any two private sector organizations about what it takes to merge dissimiliar computer systems and business processes. He won't be finding any spare money for roads going down that road.

Posted on 05/06/13 at 01:35 pm in response to GOP candidate Jeff Johnson on raising taxes, stricter gun control, gay marriage: He's opposed

All good questions. I wish Minnpost would insist on real questions being asked and real answers being demanded in these interviews. Press release/talking point/non-answers should not be allowed to slide by as they do here (and other media outlets).

Posted on 05/02/13 at 08:53 am in response to How a heavy police presence in high-crime neighborhoods hurts democracy

From http://www.npr.org/2011/06/30/137518416/newark-budget-cuts-mean-less-pol...

REED: It was 162 officers who were let go, out of more than 1,200. And NPR obtained internal crime data for the city for six and a half months since the layoffs took effect. If you compare those statistics to the...

Posted on 04/03/13 at 09:48 am in response to Minneapolis mayoral candidate Gary Schiff Q-A: 'Every neighborhood should make progress'

I'm following this interview series because it is the only place I can find any detail about the candidate. That said, the lack of challenges to assertions posited by the candidates is profoundly disappointed. (One example: new baseball stadiums create more housing? Where?)

Also, not posing all the same questions is problematic. We now know that Samuels apparently believes city employees do not deserve raises and should continue to slide backwards economically. What does Schiff think...

Posted on 03/28/13 at 09:52 am in response to Tax-by-miles-driven experiment flops

When did it move to Minneapolis? Beck's rant is another example of the factually challenged conservatives. The largest Somali population is in Minneapolis not the 6th district.

Posted on 03/18/13 at 01:14 pm in response to Franken still benefits from GOP disarray

The party of "love". Today she loves big roads. Now our "favorite" congresswoman wants a bigger 94.

Posted on 03/07/13 at 02:57 pm in response to GOP plans to fire amendment barrage at health exchange bill

Lora,
Why is all your venom directed at Walmart? The same can be said for Target or any large retailer in this country.