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By Griff Wigley, on October 6, 2009, 8:29 am
Our show took a ‘bye’ last week, using the Twins’ schedule and Tracy’s vacation as an excuse. We were back at it this week, though, meandering (intelligently, of course) from topic to topic (Victor! MTT! CIP! Open meeting laws!) without a guest to anchor us.
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Continue reading Podcast: the Triumvirate, back in the saddle, meandering
By Griff Wigley, on September 24, 2009, 9:43 am
 Our radio show/podcast guest this week: David Ludescher, a partner at Grundhoefer & Ludescher and a member of the Mayor’s Streetscape Taskforce, talking about the the lack of a decision-making rubric for the expenditure of public dollars, particularly for capital improvement projects like downtown streetscape enhancements. (Comments on this post are disabled. Join the existing discussion attached to David’s guest blog post.)
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Continue reading Podcast: David Ludescher – Where’s the rubric?
By Griff Wigley, on September 15, 2009, 7:51 am
 Our radio show/podcast guest this week: Amy Merritt, the new Executive Director of the Northfield Union of Youth, whose youth center is known as The Key. Former ED Josh Hinnencamp blogged about her hiring back in August.
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Continue reading Podcast: Amy Merritt, Executive Director of the Union of Youth
By Griff Wigley, on August 25, 2009, 9:25 am
 Ross and I were unhappy about Tracy’s vacation, as you can see. But we got over it eventually. And after dissecting last weekend’s Outlaw Run, we tried to make sense of the Hwy 3 & 19 Transportation Study recommendations in front of the Northfield City Council. I think we failed, but you be the judge.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes. Continue reading Podcast: 2/3 Triumvirate on the Hwy 3 & 19 Transportation Study
By Griff Wigley, on August 18, 2009, 9:27 am
 Our radio show/podcast guest this week, Peter Dahlen, Chair of the Northfield Charter Commission, talking about their subcommittee report that I blogged about last week. I’ve turned off comments here. Continue the discussion there.
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Continue reading Podcast: Peter Dahlen, Chair of the Charter Commission
By Griff Wigley, on August 11, 2009, 8:58 am
 Our radio show/podcast guest this week (accompanied by Jesse and Milo) was Jessica Paxton, spokesperson for the NDDC’s 2009 ArtSwirl, “Northfield’s annual community-wide celebration of music, dance, theater, and literary and visual arts.” See the new ArtSwirl blog (created by Doug Bratland) for all the event details.
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By Griff Wigley, on July 28, 2009, 1:09 pm
We were all pretty perky for this week’s show, handing out some kudos here and there while we discussed a bunch of local issues that I can’t quite remember as I write this.
I do remember having fun, though, so be sure to listen anyway!
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Continue reading Podcast: The Triumvirate, pumping sunshine
By Griff Wigley, on July 21, 2009, 6:47 am
 Our guest: Alice Thomas, member of the City of Northfield Planning Commission-Zoning Board of Appeals (PC-ZBA). We discussed their recent ruling on the old Tires Plus property (Lansing garden center) as well as the Land Development Code (LDC). I’ve turned off comments on this post; continue discussion on Tracy’s post from last week.
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By Griff Wigley, on July 7, 2009, 6:30 am
Call it the post-4th funk. Ross was pumping sunshine but Tracy and I would have none of it. The highlight of the show: someone fell asleep, and, it could be argued, rightfully so.
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Continue reading Podcast: The Triumvirate, 2/3 cranky
By Griff Wigley, on June 30, 2009, 7:41 am
 Our guest this week was Ray Cox, member of the Northfield Safety Center Task Force (SCTF), discussing you-know-what. I’ve turned off comments on this post. Join the discussion on the April SCTF blog post where there are 40+ comments to-date.
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Continue reading Podcast: Ray Cox on the Safety Center Task Force
By Griff Wigley, on June 16, 2009, 12:01 pm
 Our guest this week was Northfield Economic Development Authority (EDA) President Rick Estenson, talking about… I’m actually not sure since I couldn’t be there and I’ve not yet listened to the show. My guess the topics were: business parks development and the proposals for Master Planning Services.
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Continue reading Podcast: EDA President Rick Estenson
By Griff Wigley, on June 9, 2009, 9:50 pm
With our new schedule (recording and air-time on Mondays) we can’t quite get organized in time to line up guests so once again, it was just us yammering, mainly about the Council’s skatepark decision and subsequent plan to proceed without the PRAB’s input.
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Continue reading Podcast: The Triumvirate on the skatepark decision aftermath
By Griff Wigley, on June 3, 2009, 10:37 pm
 We got back in KYMN’s studio this week (new air-time 6:00 PM Mondays) and covered a bunch of local issues after a brief visit from Julie Bixby who talked about her recent participation in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure (breast cancer) in the Twin Cities. I neglected to get a photo of Julie so I stole one of her with her grandson Luke from the Cow’s website.
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Continue reading Podcast: after a 3-week hiatus, The Triumvirate is back
By Griff Wigley, on May 22, 2009, 8:02 am
Although no one has asked (sniff!), we have to assume y’all are worried sick about the status of our weekly show since we’ve gone two weeks now without a new one. Well relax. Wednesdays have proven to be a scheduling challenge so it’s looking like we’re going to make a move to Mondays, starting June 1. Until then, stay tuned to the new KYMN 1080 AM.
By Griff Wigley, on May 7, 2009, 7:04 am
 After a send-off to KYMN Radio News Director Dusty Budd (he departs Northfield for fame and fortune in LA next week), we argued vociferously over the community expectations policy, using language that would actually violate the policy had we been recording the show on the sidewalk. We closed with a similarly heated discussion about the skate park.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes. You can also download the MP3 or subscribe to the podcast feed, or subscribe directly with iTunes. Continue reading Podcast: Triumvirate squabbles generate heat, little light
By Griff Wigley, on April 30, 2009, 5:35 am
 It was just us three citizens yesterday, pretending to be members of the Northfield City Council and discussing how and why we’d vote on the Parks and Rec Advisory Board’s (PRAB) recommendation to locate the skatepark in Ames Park.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes. You can also download the MP3 or subscribe to the podcast feed, or subscribe directly with iTunes. Continue reading Podcast: the Triumvirate on locating the skate plaza in Ames Park
By Griff Wigley, on April 23, 2009, 6:10 am
 Our guest this week apparently was Ward 2 Councilor and blogger Betsey Buckheit, discussing the state of the Northfield City Council now that she’s served for 100+ days.
I say ‘apparently’ because I wasn’t there and my lame colleagues neglected to take a photo. Here’s a recycled one from Betsey’s appearance on the show back in November.
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Continue reading Podcast: Councilor Betsey Buckheit on her first 100 days
By Griff Wigley, on April 16, 2009, 6:43 am
 Our guest this week was Gunnar Swanson, Managing Director of the War Kids Relief project, updating us on their recently completed Young Ambassadors Pilot Program and plans for the future. (See our previous blog posts on the project.)
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Continue reading Podcast: Gunnar Swanson and the War Kids Relief project
By Griff Wigley, on April 9, 2009, 6:24 am
 Our guest this week: Northfield City Councilor Kris Vohs, who is a member of the Safety Center Task Force that’s preparing to make recommendations to the Council on the facilities for our police and fire departments. (More details on the task force on the April 1 blog post.)
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Continue reading Podcast: Councilor Kris Vohs on the Safety Center Task Force
By Griff Wigley, on April 1, 2009, 8:41 pm
 Our radio show/podcast guest, on this bright and warm first day of April, was Stan Getts, the publisher of the Northfield News. We took off the gloves and challenged him on several of the paper’s policies but he handled himself remarkably well. He’s clearly a passionate guy.
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Continue reading Podcast: Northfield News publisher Stan Getts
By Griff Wigley, on March 25, 2009, 4:20 pm
  Our guest today was Bonnie Obremski who announced that she’s resigned her position as the reporter for the Northfield Representative Journalism project effective Friday. She and her fiancé, Josh Rowan (pictured at right doing a finger puppet show in the KYMN studio window), depart Saturday for Key West, FL. Bonnie will post her own announcement tomorrow here on LG, so I’ve turned off comments on this post. Chime in on her post when you see it… and note the date, time and place of her going-away party on Friday eve.
Continue reading Podcast: RepJ reporter Bonnie Obremski on her departure from Northfield
By Griff Wigley, on March 19, 2009, 6:54 am
By Tracy Davis, on March 13, 2009, 5:33 am
 Word came yesterday that Ron Griffith, former Planning Commission member and co-founder of Just Food Co-op, died peacefully at home in the company of his family. Ron had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year. A memorial service is planned for Saturday, March 28; the details will be determined later. Ron’s family is requesting that people donate to the Ron Griffith Young Leaders Fund (blogged here earlier) in lieu of flowers.
Councillor Betsey Buckheit paid tribute to Ron on her blog, and the notice in the Northfield News provides some brief biographical information about this wonderful man, whom I felt very fortunate to know. (continued) Continue reading Ron Griffith, R.I.P.
By Griff Wigley, on March 5, 2009, 6:43 am
It was just us co-hosts yesterday, primarily doing a post-mortem on Ross’ trip to Chicago for the National Mainstreets Conference with its 2009 technology-related theme, Becoming Main Street 2.0. (And what is Web 2.0? ) See the live-blogging organizers did during the conference. Ross has posted to his NDDC blog about the conference here, here, and here and on LG here and here.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes. You can also download the MP3 or subscribe to the podcast feed, or subscribe directly with iTunes. Continue reading Podcast: The Triumvirate on Main Street 2.0
By Griff Wigley, on February 26, 2009, 11:09 am
 Our studio guest this week: Kathie Galotti, parent of two K-12 students and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Carleton College, discussing the flap over the proposed district-wide 1 hr late start/early release on Mondays next year. I’ve turned off comments on this blog post. Continue the discussion (over 80 comments thus far) attached to Kathie’s Feb. 17 blog post, My objections to the proposed changes to the school calendar.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes. You can also subscribe to the podcast feed, or subscribe directly with iTunes. Continue reading Podcast: Kathie Galotti on the proposed district-wide 1 hr late start/early release
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