- Casino brings jobs, development to Hinckley -- at a price. The price is that the old downtown on the west side of the freeway isn't getting any added traffic from the casino, which is to the east of the freeway. Noted because Mom lives up thataway. [strib]
- Castle Coalition: Citizens Fighting Eminent Domain Abuse. This might've been handy when we were trying to convince the City Council that using eminent domain
as a bargaining tool
for the developer of the Stone Arch Apartments was a bad idea. - Forbes.com: Best Cities For Singles. MSP is #13. Lucky me. [fark!]
- Selig says 6 to 8 teams are in trouble. But of course he's going to do his best to keep alive recent expansion teams like the Marlins and Devil Rays that are grossly unprofitable (
hemorhagging money
), while contracting the Twins, who are actually making money, or losing money a lot more slowly, depending on whose numbers you believe. [strib] - House and Senate pass stadium bill, but if the Twins are probably going to go broke within a couple years as Selig says it doesn't seem like a very good idea. Maybe we should just let baseball get its financial house in order first and then figure out whether we want to pay for a stadium. Screw it. I'll keep watching the Saints. [strib]
- More on the stadium legislation. It sounds like the best offer the Twins are going to get from the state. Now it's just a matter of waiting for them to contract. [strib]
- ROADKILLBILL.COM is the work of Ken Avidor - a Twin Cities cartoonist who lampoons the car culture. A must read for any bicyclist (or pedestrian). [Jim]
- malevole's Bogroll of reciprocal back-scratching links. Dammit, that's funny.