Category: Neighborhood NIMBYs
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Perhaps Saint Paul’s Sole Political Upside. Sort Of.
Minneapolis is increasingly run by showy, shrill, demogogic “Democrats Socialists of America” radicals intent on rebuilding the city in their image. Saint Paul, as long as I can recall but even moreso in the past 15 years has been run by an informal assembly of white NIMBYs from the various Parks (Highland, Merriam, Irvine, Saint…
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Government Of Merriam Park NIMBYs, By Merriam Park NIMBYs And For Merriam Park NIMBYs
The sentence from the title isn’t officially in whatever passes for a “constitution“ for the city of Saint Paul. But it might as well be. The neighborhood – southwest of Allianz Stadium, south of the freeway and west of Snelling – is the home of an awful lot of ELCA-haired “progressive“ with boundless spare time…
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Other Animals
A friend of the blog emails: I had read a while back that some garbage collectors in Saint Paul were not meeting their obligation to customers and were not collecting trash. Mine was consistently being picked up, so I felt fortunate, especially since I was never a supporter of city wide trash collection, at least…
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Lather, Rinse, Repeat
A friend of the blog emails: This is the 2nd time this year that a driver has driven into a utility pole on St Anthony Ave in Saint Paul and has caused power outages in the city. St Anthony Ave is a street that has been “traffic calmed”- bike lanes added, parking removed in some…
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Someone Else’s Backyard
A friend of the blog emails: LOL at all the Yes In My Backyard Karens who have suddenly become Not In My Backyard when University of St Thomas is concerned. I know many of these same people argued against and successfully fought off any kind of retail that could have happened in the former Bus…