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Steve Titterud

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
4 years 20 weeks

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Posted on 04/08/13 at 09:27 pm in response to Mayor Coleman to SPCO musicians: Remaining issues 'either minor or negligible'

See the musicians' list of outstanding issues at the link below. How could Mayor Coleman possibly be aware of these and say they were "minor or negligible" ? Looks like an attempt at saving face to me - i.e., he doesn't want his effort to appear to be a flop.

With such a one-sided view, how could he broker anything between these parties ?

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Posted on 04/08/13 at 09:50 pm in response to GOP hopes Keith Downey will stabilize shaky state party

See http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/109187/keith-downey#.UWN-CTfviSo

You'd never know from this fluff piece who likes Mr. Downey. But if you peruse the aggregated ratings of Mr. Downey by the interest groups above, you'll know a lot more about Mr. Downey. He is a darling of the following, nearly all...

Posted on 04/08/13 at 01:21 pm in response to Gallup says Twin Citians feel safer than residents in any other metro area

...when I avoid those parts of town which, experience shows, are NOT safe - especially after dark.

Posted on 04/05/13 at 02:31 pm in response to Outside groups doing more and more of GOP's work

These latest ideas are just further variations on the shell games of the various financing packages. All of them attempt to hide the fact that the taxpayer, through the general fund, has got to be the ultimate guarantor of any shortfalls, else the bonding falls flat on its face.

The only plans for funding that didn't ultimately rely on the taxpayer as guarantor were rejected, almost out of hand, by the proponents in and out of the legislature. The White Earth Band proposal comes to...

Posted on 04/08/13 at 03:13 pm in response to As state ages, Minnesota braces for problems with risky reverse-mortgages

In answer to "Too bad, so sad" - What ?? Buy a life insurance policy ?? This is a solution to having a complex financial instrument misrepresented to you ?? Yikes !!

In answer to "What were you thinking !" - Yes, of course the people who get hoodwinked by the sharks in this industry aren't so clear in their thinking or well-defended in their own actions. That's why they are the marks for these financial predators !! It's part of the basis for their business. Some people simply...

Posted on 04/05/13 at 08:07 am in response to GOP's Nienow urges delaying Vikes stadium groundbreaking

He asks, "In whose world was this a good idea?"

Answer: In the worlds of the Governor, the mayor of Minneapolis, the unions, the metro tribes, the DFL, the Minneapolis City Council, and some RHINOs. These are strange little worlds that few Minnesotans live in - or to put it better, whose operative VALUES are not shared by Minnesotans in general.

That's why they had to ram it down our throats, invalidate the city charter, torture state law, and have an army of lobbyists...

Posted on 04/05/13 at 11:27 am in response to GOP's Nienow urges delaying Vikes stadium groundbreaking

Voting for it:

Barbara Johnson
Sandy Colvin Roy
Diane Hofstede
John Quincy
Kevin Reich
Don Samuels
Meg Tuthill

Of course, the Mayor of Minneapolis deserves special recognition in this fiasco.

Our Mayor is the one who trumpeted a $150 million cost figure for the city, RIGHT UP UNTIL his CFO testified at hearing that the cost with interest would be $675 million. This was only weeks before the bill passed. Thanks a lot, Mayor !!...

Posted on 04/05/13 at 02:05 pm in response to GOP's Nienow urges delaying Vikes stadium groundbreaking

I've often wondered the mechanics of how exactly this came to be (compulsory investment in Wall Street monetary vehicles). There certainly are (and were) other ways the funds could be handled - e.g., funding could be held in specialized bank accounts, so no direct or indirect purchase of stocks/bonds would have tied the account-holders to mutual funds and brokerages. Direct purchases of government bonds (local, state, federal) would be another. Were any alternatives proposed or considered...

Posted on 04/07/13 at 08:45 pm in response to GOP's Nienow urges delaying Vikes stadium groundbreaking

...as I did not mean to insult them.

Posted on 04/05/13 at 10:39 am in response to Make Minnesota civilized again: Generate progressive revenues

A good example of the whining of the wealthy was told by the financial aid officer at the college I attended, way, way back when.

She said the well-off gave all kinds of causes that their child’s tuition should be subsidized, and one of these was, “…it costs a lot of money to maintain an airplane.”