18 candidates already are vying for the top job at Minneapolis city hall, with more expected to sign on before the filing deadline Tuesday.
Politics + Public Policy
A Star Tribune story suggests that the demise of a Washington transit project serves as a “cautionary tale” for local planners.
The controversial plan to build a 140-unit apartment building on land once occupied by the House of Hanson, Duffy’s Pizza, the Book House and the Podium was approved Friday on a 9-to-4 vote by the Minneapolis City Council.
The Minneapolis City Council met Thursday to discuss forming a city-owned electric utility, but the Xcel Energy CEO is confident the city won’t make the transition.
The credit rating agency also reaffirmed its Aa1 rating for the state’s bonds; it now shares that rating with the City of Minneapolis.
About a week after the project’s planners raised their cost estimate from $1.25 billion to $1.67 billion, they tacked on another $150 million.
Current state law prohibits the price of a plan from becoming public until its “effective date,” which was originally October 1 for plans included in MNsure.
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An environmental group is asking Minneapolis to exclude CenterPoint Energy if it creates a November referendum about the city taking over utilities; however, it isn’t making that same request about Xcel Energy, which opposes the “municipalization” concept.
Mark Dayton gets four appointments to the eight-member board.
Minneapolis is considering adding a November ballot measure about whether to form a city-owned utility; meanwhile, the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce and Xcel Energy, which would lose a contract if the city created a utility, have criticized the process.
There was little discussion about plans for two office towers, a parking ramp, a public park, and residential and retail space.
Business groups have been quietly championing immigration reform—because without it, the state’s labor pool will dry up.
The cost of the proposed light-rail line could balloon from $1.25 billion to nearly $1.7 billion, depending on which option planners select for dealing with existing freight rail.
Thrivent Financial and other “fraternal benefit societies” are making a push to ensure they remain tax-exempt when the writers of the nation’s tax code start with a “blank slate.”
Mayor Chris Coleman released a video in which he tells the public that he is open to suggestions for upcoming budget decisions.
Planners are considering eight options for either moving existing freight traffic to St. Louis Park or keeping it in the Minneapolis Kenilworth corridor, in order to make room for a new light-rail line.
Minnesota House Minority Leader and Senate Minority Leader say that the new sales tax on warehousing and storage services is “unnecessary and burdensome.”