Bridgewater Township is ground-zero for the proposed ethanol plant and who knows what else. Last summer, the township board passed a one-year moratorium on development to consider doing its own…
Category: <span>Gov’t & Policy</span>
Northfield Ward 1 City Councilor Jim Pokorney was our guest AGAIN this week. (Photo recycled from last week.) Talk of the revisions to the Comprehensive Plan dominated last week so…
A number of people have asked me about the next steps for public input on the Comprehensive Plan revision process. I’ll go out on a limb once again and make…
Yesterday’s Star Tribune also had an editorial about the importance of sustainability and smarter spending for development. The governor and legislators working to pass House and Senate bills establishing a…
Northfield Ward 1 City Councilor Jim Pokorney was our guest this week. And of course, talk of the revisions to the Comprehensive Plan dominated. Click photo to enlarge. We’ll have…
The City had planned for about 125 people at tonight’s public meeting, “Put Your Fingerprints on Northfield’s Blueprints.” We ended up with about double that amount, which was a great…
I saw this article in the Sunday Strib: In a hurry for ultrafast Internet: Eagan sees radically accelerated access speeds as an economic development tool, and it’s looking for a…
In a previous post, Griff took the Northfield News to task for their coverage of the Garden Show in Wednesday’s issue. But the News deserves kudos for the amount of…
In his introduction to the line-up of speakers for the opening session of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Main Street Program, “Building a Sustainable Future”, National Director Doug Loescher…