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Steven Bailey

Glden Valley, MN
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2 years 5 weeks

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Posted on 05/09/13 at 07:44 am in response to Exercise is best 'youth pill' around, but 80% — including Minnesotans — fall far short

FInd a reason to walk everyday. If you drink coffee walk to a local coffee shop every day and get your coffee. If you can't walk early try finding a place you can walk to for lunch. Gyms and exercise clubs rarely work in the long run. Try to fit a 30 minute round trip walk into everyday. You don't need a membership or special gear and you will be healthier.

Posted on 03/28/13 at 06:14 pm in response to For Gov. Dayton, tax reform, stadium controversies make March 'cruelest month'

Few things in recent MN history are as disappointing as the new Vikings Stadium decision. The stadium would not have passed with a referendum so the majority of our elected reps decided to use legal trickery to get it through. There have been many well written articles about the NFL's poor future outlook due to concussion litigation and diminishing demographic interest. It is a bad time to build a stadium for tax payers and it is going to hurt us in the near future.

Posted on 02/26/13 at 11:37 am in response to How to make sure housing doesn’t bring down the economy again

Our recently built housing stock and many of the recently remodeled older homes have such poor workmanship and materials that they will not out last the mortgages that are attached to them. There was a wholesale change in the construction industry in the 1990's and we haven't begun to pay for it. I believe that most of the outer tier burbs will be bulldozed before they ever become 2nd or 3d generation housing.

Posted on 02/26/13 at 08:51 pm in response to Minnesotans shouldn’t count on Sunday liquor sales anytime soon

Very quickly I believe polls show that over 80% of Minnesotans want to be able to by at least beer or wine on Sunday. Nationally over 80% of Americans think foods should be properly labeled as to GMO content. In both cases the vast majority is totally ignored by our elected representatives. Maybe everyone should call their Reps and ask why the interests of the majority are unimportant and how much does it cost to be important.

Posted on 02/11/13 at 10:14 am in response to Obama should approve Keystone XL pipeline

As pointed out in every piece I have seen about the Keystone Pipeline the oil is not for us and does nothing for our energy independence. The oil will be refined here for export. Why was the 20,000 jobs number used in this article at all. Our State Department estimated the total number of jobs to be around 5000 and most of those are temporary jobs. Obama already tried to sneak this through and got caught. Obama backed off and said it needed further review for purely political reasons and...

Posted on 02/04/13 at 07:23 pm in response to Terrestrial radio is losing listeners — and the industry war

I have had a radio on since I was a kid through college and as a contractor for many years. I have listened to uncountable thousands of hours of radio. I pretty much turned off most commercial stations over 10 years ago. They became unlistenable. Sadly even The Current is no longer interesting with ever shrinking playlists and loads of commercials they call sponsorships. It may be The Current I am most sad about. I was an mpr listener since the early 1990's (when we moved here). I thought...

Posted on 01/24/13 at 08:35 pm in response to Obama has many independent options to move U.S. on clean energy, climate

Obama had 4 years to do anything on renewables and he did no more than Bush. Obama is for the Keystone and he is for GMO crops which depend on fossil fuels. Obama spent 4 years punching the environmental movement in the face or stabbing them in the back. There isn't a new Obama. Obama is still the same corporate Wall Street, Big Ag, Big Oil and Pharma puppet he has always been. Anyone who thinks Obama is going to come through for them is either misinformed, ignorant, or just paid to write...

Posted on 11/16/12 at 07:45 pm in response to Bikes mean better business

Biking is great exercise and relaxing (accept when a car or another bicycle is trying to injure you). Exercise is very important for your brain. It isn't an accident that many creative people enjoy cycling.

Sadly the Twin Cities are still where you are most likely to be hit while cycling by a SUV with a bike rack attached to it.

Posted on 11/09/12 at 10:32 am in response to Why do we have a state budget mess? Think Ventura years and baby boomers

The title and having a picture of Governor Ventura at the top is misleading. Our problems now are not Ventura's fault. Our budget problems sit right in the lap of T-Paw, his pledges to the far right and the damage he was willing to do to further his political ambitions. Governor Ventura had a problem with government collecting more money than it needed but he was definitely not against the government having the needed monies to pay it's bills.

Posted on 11/05/12 at 10:54 am in response to How to end the war on walkers in the Twin Cities

We lived in St Louis Park for a long time and for a while my wife and I would walk to the local coffee shop, next to City Hall, get coffee and then my wife would take the bus to her job. One of the most dangerous things we had to deal with was crossing Minnetonka Blvd, in the crosswalk, right in front of City Hall. The road would be clear when we would leave the curb but often a car running the stop signs on the side roads would speed out and blow through the crosswalk while we were in it....