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Who runs this burg, anyway? Part Two

October 13, 2016

In Part One, I described the outsized role in making policy held by the staff (well, and consultants, too) in a city like Edina, and in fact, in Edina. And I cautioned against stacking the city council with members who are themselves professional municipal technocrats, likely to be staff and developer oriented, rather than resident […]

by Steve Timmer

Who runs this burg, anyway?

October 12, 2016

Playing Sim City with other people’s money

by Steve Timmer

The answer is a TIF

March 1, 2016

Here’s the question: If you take a student from every grade in the Edina Public Schools and lay them end to end, and then you do it again, what do you get? Well, you get a TIF. That’s how long a TIF at Grandview would last. Perhaps obviously, I am just talking to my Edina […]

by Steve Timmer

TIF-ed off in Edina! – part two

April 16, 2015

The Grandview redevelopment

by Steve Timmer

TIFs are unhealthy for schools and other living things

March 29, 2015

Facing the TIF-industrial complex

by Steve Timmer

TIF-ed off in Edina!

March 27, 2015

Feeding the buzzard

by Steve Timmer