{"id":86446,"date":"2023-11-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86446"},"modified":"2023-11-13T11:17:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T17:17:30","slug":"a-certain-resonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86446","title":{"rendered":"A Certain Resonance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The DFL wants to build a new monument to itself. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, that’s not literally<\/em> true. It’s a replacement for the State Office Building, on John Ireland and Constitution, southwest of the Capitol. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s currently slated to cost $730M. GIven government inflation and the inevitable cost overruns, I suspect the all-up cost will be $1 Billion if we’re lucky, $1.4 if we’re just another Minnesota government project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that’s not all:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Members of the House of Representatives will be able to wave to the adoring crowds from high above the state capitol grounds in St. Paul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A project so wasteful and bloated that it\u2019s been nominated for<\/a> this year\u2019s Golden Turkey award (vote here<\/a>), the state\u2019s lower chamber is moving ahead with a half-billion-dollar<\/a> (with a \u201cb\u201d) project to construct a new office building for Minnesota\u2019s 134 House members.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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What is <\/em>it with tinpot authoritarians and balconies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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