Jan. 2 Winona Post: Consultant to help with county planning overhaul The Winona County Board approved hiring an outside consultant to examine potential collaboration and consolidation between the Planning Department…
Category: <span>Gov’t & Policy</span>
If I don’t think we should have annexed 530 acres located 3 ½ miles from our community’s center and 3 ½ miles from the interstate highway (neither here nor there),…
There’s yet another installment in the “let’s build a business park” series. The most recent piece is by Planning Commissioner Tracy Davis. Her thesis is that we have adequate space…
I didn’t know that Rick Estenson was such a big fan of FDR; he quotes our longest-serving president twice in the fourth of a series of pro-business park guest columns.…
In the third of the occasionally to press series of guest columns in support of the business park, City of Northfield Economic Development Director Jody Gunderson shares his vision for…
Following in Councilor Pokorney’s, Councilor Erica Zweifel recently wrote a guest column for the Northfield News. I found it to be a curious piece. Erica opened with her commitment to…
Councilor Jim Pokorny recently wrote a guest column for the Northfield News. In it, he talked about growing up in Hibbing. He noted that the town gave him a good…
I am enthusiastically and vigorously supportive of increasing the availability of land for industrial development in Northfield. I support the recommendation of the EDA’s consultant, TIP Strategies, for making an…