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Steve Titterud

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
4 years 16 weeks

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Posted on 05/06/13 at 11:12 pm in response to Inaction on water issues will only create a greater crisis for the next generation

...we have been beyond fortunate in the abundance of water resources. We expect this will continue forever, regardless of circumstances. It will not. We think the far more severe problems in other parts of the country are - and will remain - foreign to us. They are not - and will not.

This is one of the great issues of our time, as water is so necessary, in a myriad of ways, to our very well-being.

Frank Phelan above has a great point about so-called "conservatives". Any...

Posted on 05/03/13 at 09:23 am in response to 'Belt and suspenders' for transit would be more like a noose

... - it's reconfigurable ! As circumstances change, a BRT system allows moving components and resources to suit new needs.

Try moving a rail line.

Posted on 05/03/13 at 01:46 pm in response to 'Belt and suspenders' for transit would be more like a noose

...but in my view, the purpose of mass transit is not to stimulate development, it's to move people and reduce vehicular traffic and its associated problems - pollution, congestion, etc.

However, if you begin with the idea of development as primary, then your point follows and is well-taken.

While it's true that the flexibility of re-allocating resources in a BRT system could be viewed as a downside, it is also true that Metro Transit has numerous bus routes which have not...

Posted on 05/01/13 at 09:19 am in response to Hunter mistakes a county cop for turkey

...and what is so newsworthy anyway about a guy mistaking a man for a turkey ?

And how desperate does a newsman have to be to make such a big deal about gun safety instructors firing weapons by accident in a gun safety class, or blowing off their own finger ?

As to your request for awful accidents involving fencing instructors and Andrew Zimmern - they are a little more careful in what they do, so those stories are really hard to come by.

Journalists like this Brian...

Posted on 04/30/13 at 07:14 am in response to Cartoonist Ohman's offense? Starkly provoking a debate over politics and public safety

...and it is a nightmare of bureaucratic mazes, dirty tricks, and Catch-22s in a business-friendly, worker-hostile department:

see http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/insult_to_injury_texas_worker...

Also, Texas consistently...

Posted on 04/29/13 at 08:39 am in response to Behind Concordia's bold tuition cut: 'Maybe we can actually do something'

“We would kind of pay attention or be attuned to conversations at social events, and we would often hear, ‘Why does it cost so much?’ And, you know, we had to ask ourselves, ‘Well, why does it?’”

Then, the article moves on to an analysis of the price perceptions of the buyer (students, parents), as though that were somehow an answer, which it is not.

It is easy to see two causes for the increases in cost in the last few decades:

- building projects, and

-...

Posted on 04/29/13 at 10:34 am in response to Behind Concordia's bold tuition cut: 'Maybe we can actually do something'

...sought benefits for the institution that have now been overwhelmed by its excesses.

This model reminds me of the health care industry's "high retail price, high discount" model - wherein procedures that are settled through employer contracts or Medicare or Medicaid at $800 are invoiced at $2,500 - or more. The retail price is a pure fiction, as no one pays it - EXCEPT of course for those few least able to pay it - the retail uninsured patient. THEY get the highest price in the...

Posted on 04/29/13 at 12:32 pm in response to Unions feel legislative 'love' in Minnesota

"...sometimes tedious, work of writing legislation...is being bypassed more frequently" says a mouthful.

Much of the legislation passing through House and Senate is NOT written by the officeholders, and oftentimes is not even READ by the elected representatives.

It's so much easier to have a lobbyist group hand you a canned piece of proposed law, and then, should there be any confusion, tell you how to vote on it. ALEC is pretty good at this, at the level of state legislatures...

Posted on 04/26/13 at 03:29 pm in response to The challenges of building ‘the essential house’

...because of the suggestion cast in the column - i.e., "affordable" & "low cost". Is it, or is it not ?

Please reply here with the numbers - they should have been included in the first place.

Posted on 04/26/13 at 03:34 pm in response to Pluses and lots of minuses of a new convention hotel in Minneapolis

Not a dime !

I know that the latest fashion is to bend the taxpayer over and invite private business owners to have their way with us.

For once, let the downtown business beneficiaries and prospective owners PAY THEIR OWN WAY, rather than appealing for more corporate welfare. It would be a learning experience.

If it's not a good investment for a private business, imagine how lousy an investment it will be for the taxpayer.