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Tom Clark

Muscatel, California
Commenter for
2 years 18 weeks

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Posted on 03/14/12 at 04:20 pm in response to Obama signs St. Croix Bridge bill

was already arrived at during the 2000-2005 process. While I can understand the political need for lip-service to be paid to the notion, there was never a need to do what already had been done all over again.

Posted on 03/15/12 at 11:59 am in response to Obama signs St. Croix Bridge bill

because it has to deal with environmental concerns that no other bridge has ever had to address. You can bet that when the six-lane Highway 169 bridge was built in Bloomington (to replace the old, decrepit Bloomington Ferry bridge) that there was no similar concerns about the Minnesota River.

Posted on 03/15/12 at 11:56 am in response to St. Croix bridge construction to start in 2014

because of work along Highway 36, some of which would have to be done even if no bridge was built. The actual bridge cost is split 50/50 between Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Posted on 03/09/12 at 09:08 am in response to North suburbs call stadium process 'unorthodox, unfair and convoluted'

For supporters of an Arden Hills stadium to go on about the convoluted process is ironic, given the machinations about a referendum on a half-cent sales tax in Ramsey County. (Which, honestly, is too much and was what killed that stadium proposal.)

Posted on 03/08/12 at 01:33 pm in response to Steve Sviggum agrees to step down as U of M regent at emotion-filled board meeting

Swiggum had to know this was likely to happen when he took the Senate Caucus job based on prior such conflict of interest cases. For him to whine about it now in such a childish way only shows how right it is that he stepped down.

Posted on 03/08/12 at 09:42 am in response to Another Minneapolis council member favors stadium referendum

that some council members want to try and inoculate themselves from the inevitable backlash from angry constituents. The stadium is going to be built in downtown Minneapolis, was always going to be built in downtown Minneapolis, and all the rest is just details. The only thing I can see the threat of a Minneapolis referendum accomplishing is to get the Republicans in the legislature to cough up more dough from the state. Which they will, while also complaining about it and also trying to...

Posted on 03/08/12 at 11:25 am in response to Anoka-Hennepin settlement: Healing has only just begun

the list of those who ran in the primary for SPPS board (ISD 625) was:

Beth Carol Blick 1991 2.37
Roxanna Lee Foster 2394 2.85
Elona Street-Stewart 11072 13.17
Glenda Hernandez 3688 4.39
John Francis Brodrick 11127 13.24
Phillip Ravitzky 1406 1.67
Gary Wayne DeYoung 2140 2.55
Georgia E Dietz 6757 8.04
Elizabeth Montgomery 11088 13.19
Mark Allen Roosevelt 1863 2.22
Ed Day 1600 1.90
Toni Carter 12338 14.68...

Posted on 03/08/12 at 12:53 pm in response to Anoka-Hennepin settlement: Healing has only just begun

Likening gays to Nazis? I guess some people still don't know what the origin of those pink triangles is.

Posted on 03/05/12 at 03:21 pm in response to Romney's RomneyCare problem just won't quit

would be to pick Rush Limbaugh as his VP. Which, obviously, has a down side.

Posted on 03/02/12 at 01:11 pm in response to Thursday's major developments don't please state Rep. Winkler

The renewal of the tax reciprocity agreement between Minnesota and Wisconsin won't take effect until after the 2012 tax year, so we Wisconsinites who work in Minnesota will still get to file MN returns for another year.