Last Wednesday I had a front row seat from my corner office window at GBM as Jim Bohnhoff , Howie Holt and crew mounted the exterior signs for the…
Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>
NHS ED Hayes Scriven stopped by my table at GBM on Wed. morning to promo the Hops, Grapes & History event at Grand Event Center on Saturday. I didn’t realize…
I attended the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota‘s (BikeMN) third annual Minnesota Bicycle Summit on Capitol Hill on Monday, as I’m trying to get smarter about the state of…
For the next week (and maybe longer), I’m moderating three focused blog discussion threads on the Parking Management for Downtown blog. Although each one addresses the concerns of the particular…
About a month ago, I happened to hear Splendid Table’s Lynne Rossetto Kasper interviewing journalist Tom Mueller about his new book, Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive…
Longtime Northfielder and Northfield Patch editor Corey Butler announced his resignation on his Facebook page earlier this week. I got his permission to post it here and coaxed him into…
First Ward Councilor Suzie Nakasian stopped by my office at GBM yesterday to tell me about the upcoming 7th Annual Northfield Winter Stomp. (She hijacked Cliff Martin into the photo…

Change the Open Meeting Law to allow our public officials to discuss some issues online without fear
I’ve been digging deeper into the Minnesota Open Meeting Law (OML) lately, because A) my citizen engagement work with the City of Northfield (parking) and the Northfield Public Schools (technology);…
It’s not been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon Northfield for me. The face-to-face meetings and online engagement activities for both the City of Northfield’s Downtown Parking Management plan…







