Let it ring from the hillsides of Saint Paul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Indeed.<\/p>\n
Let it ring down the bluffs along Davern, where US Bank abandoned the Riverbank office complex for better tax rates down the road in Bloomington.<\/p>\n
Let it ring down the flat expanse of University Avenue, past the mom-and-pop stores that eke out a precarious living in Frogtown.<\/p>\n
Let it echo between cavernous, empty office buildings downtown.<\/p>\n
Let it bounce among the empty storefronts of Payne Avenue, surrounded by foreclosed houses and city bulldozers.<\/p>\n
Let it roll like a foetid tumbleweed past the businesses in the Midway, who are already reeling from the light rail construction that is barely starting, and which the city and past legislatures – both choked with DFLers that ooze\/oozed the same kind of blithe arrogance – did nothing to mitigate in their naive glee over a rail system the city doesn’t need and the state and feds can’t afford.<\/p>\n
Yes, John Lesch.\u00a0 Let it roll.<\/p>\n
If you know a businessperson in Senate District 66 – or anywhere in Saint Paul – please tell ’em what Representative John Lesch thinks about their future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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