State budget analysis, Halloween celebrations in the parks, the Click It or Ticket enforcement campaign, more downtown Minneapolis traffic changes, and practice runs on the Northstar and Hiawatha lines.
Filed in Central, Civics, Culture and Society, Driving, Environment, Government, Law Enforcement, Longfellow, Minneapolis, Neighborhoods, Nokomis, Parks, Transit, Transportation
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Tagged budget, halloween, hiawatha lrt, legislature, Longfellow, mpls mirror, Nokomis, northstar commuter rail, seat belts, target field, taxes, traffic
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From the fresh.mn flickr pool. Originally uploaded by waiting_line. I know it’s been dreary, but I, for one, am enjoying the fact that it’s still warm enough to be raining.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
From Minnesota Budget Bites: The Governor’s unallotment plan includes an additional $106 million in tax revenues in FY 2010-11 by asking the State of Wisconsin to reimburse the State of Minnesota sooner under an existing reciprocity agreement. Under the current reciprocity agreement, Wisconsin residents who work in Minnesota file their state income taxes in Wisconsin, [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
First up, this Saturday (Oct 31), Jenn Barnett is doing another Pay What You Can Portrait Day. 4-7 pm on the Stone Arch Bridge. Bring: Yourself, your kid, your pet, your theater troupe, costume, your favorite pair of shoes, your 1973 superbeetle, your ducati, your surfboard, your ukulele, your lint collection — whatever you want [...]
The 2009 Powderhorn Empty Bowls event will be November 6 at the Powderhorn Park Building. Friday, November 6, 2009 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Powderhorn Park Building 3400 15th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55407 Pick out a handmade bowl, make a free-will donation, enjoy homemade soup and leave with your bowl — now empty — [...]
Filed in Arts, Culture and Society, Food and Drink, Minneapolis, Neighborhoods, Powderhorn, Recommended
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Tagged charity, community, donations, pottery, powderhorn empty bowls, powderhorn park, volunteer
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
From the fresh.mn flickr pool.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Okay, this looks pretty cool, and I don’t even like Halloween. Barebones Productions, purveyor of “Outdoor Puppetry and Performance Art Spectacles,” is putting on a Halloween show called Devoured. Details: Saturday, Oct 24 · Sunday, Oct 25 · Friday, Oct 30 · Saturday, Oct 31 7pm at Hidden Falls Park (North Gate) · 1305 Mississippi [...]
From the fresh.mn flickr pool. This photo says “chilly and foreboding in a strangely attractive way” to me, which is about how I was feeling about the early-arriving late-autumn weather prior to this last weekend’s sunshine. Except that we’re heading right back into it. Originally uploaded by smoen photography.
WCCO is hosting the next bloginar. Well, they always host, but this one is actually on the premises at WCCO studios. The TinyURL guy is the featured guest. And these two tidbits: Plus, get a special sneak peek at a new WCCO online project called “The Wire.” Limited spaces are open for a station tour [...]
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The City of Minneapolis is holding workshops to give residents every possible opportunity to see what a RCV/IRV ballot will look like, practice filling one out, and ask questions about the process before election day. Workshops will be held all over the city (purposely), starting Oct 19 and running through Oct 31. You can also [...]
