It was just us co-hosts yesterday, wasting valuable airtime on community fluff before launching into arguments about Tracy’s neighborhood association blog post, followed by a (um) very polite discussion (again) about the liquor…
Category: <span>Gov’t & Policy</span>
As most LoGro readers probably know, the new Comprehensive Plan is finally done and was adopted by the City Council last month. The Land Development Code Advisory Group is now…
Evidently with the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, no Friday Memo was published last week by City Hall/Joel Walinski. I got a City Commons monthly newsletter in the mail recently but I…
Our guest this week: Erica Zweifel, new Councilor for the City of Northfield in Ward 3. Tracy was out of town. Besides grilling her on her recent junket to Switzerland,…
A year ago, the first Wayfinding sign appeared on 4th St. between Division and Washington. Then it disappeared for a while, coming back in early October. Left: Now it’s…
The Friday Memo, written by interim Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski and many of the department directors, managers, and supervisors, summarizes many of the staff activities for the week. Although…
Logan Nash, a student in Doug McGill’s journalism class at Carleton College, has written a piece titled In the Obama-Era, Plans Revive for a Northfield-Twin Cities Rail Line (PDF – full text below).
See the Dan Patch commuter rail line/corridor web page on MNDOT’s site for more info, as well as the Northstar Commuter Rail Line website.
In the Obama-Era, Plans Revive for a Northfield-Twin Cities Rail Line
By Logan Nash
With the national economy still a giant question mark, Northfield community leaders are pushing ahead to revive a long-delayed project to build a commuter rail line that would link the town to the Twin Cities metropolitan region.
The national economic downturn is precisely why a serious reconsideration of the commuter line, called the Dan Patch Corridor, is especially warranted right now, the line’s advocates say.