Update 9 pm: at 2:58 today, I posted the headline of the 1:48 PM Nfld News story titled: Summa admits poaching petition, won’t face jury with an excerpt of the first three sentences and the blog post title “Summa admits guilt; criminal charges dropped.” (continued)
Category: <span>Gov’t & Policy</span>
The Friday Memo, written by Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski and various department directors, managers, and supervisors, summarizes many of the staff activities for the week. The Friday memos are…
I got this email from a local resident:
I think it would be interesting to post something about St. Olaf’s decision to bring in Karl Rove on October 1st to speak. I am actually quite appalled that our hometown Lutheran college would do such a thing. Ann Coulter was one thing- she’s an over the top media freak who makes money by being just so. Karl Rove, kindly known as "Bush’s Brain" is a criminal with little regard for the law or the betterment of our society. Frankly, I think he’s evil and should be in jail!
The slightly defaced poster on the wall of the GBM (my photo above) has more to say, as well as the blog post on Oleville, by the Political Awareness Committee (PAC) of the St. Olaf Student Government Association (SGA) . (continued)
Today’s Nfld News: Hospital Board meetings likely broke law. "Hospital officials likely broke open meeting laws by routinely closing meetings to the public to discuss executive departures from the city-owned enterprise…" In mid-August, Northfield Hospital‘s Bobbi Jenkins contacted me about posting a news release (see below) from the search committee "seeking input from the community regarding the most important qualities for candidates for the President/CEO position." (continued)
The City has a new map of the 2009 Northfield Parks, Open Space, and Trail System Plan (PDF) available. I don’t know who created it but it’s very detailed and…
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.)
Click play to listen. 30 minutes.
In last week’s Friday Memo, Northfield Police Chief Mark Taylor announced the new Rice County Medication Safety Program named Take it to the Box. I had a bottle of…
The Friday Memo, written by Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski and various department directors, managers, and supervisors, summarizes many of the staff activities for the week. The Friday memos are…
Last spring, the Northfield City Council adopted a vision statement and four goals for 2009. (See pages 47-56 of the April 6 meeting packet.) Two documents (PDFs) are now available on the Council’s web page: 1) a one-page vision and goals statement; 2) an eight-page outline of the goals and related initiatives. This new Council has been in office for 9 months; it’s been 5 months since the goals were adopted. How are they doing? (continued)