I am a member of six person group from the City going on a short field trip to the Scott County courthouse to visit with Scott County officials about their information technology system. Scott County is well known in government circles for its IT system. It is widely recognized as being one of [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2003
Scott in the Pioneer Press
June 27, 2003 – 3:51 am
Today’s St. Paul Pioneer Press has an article titled, Blogging for Business by Julio Ojeda-Zapata.
It includes a quote from Scott’s June 11 weblog entry.
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June 26, 2003 – 3:25 pm
City staff are still holding our breath (not really though) waiting to find out the fate of a number of local road improvement projects. The Governor and the State Legislature approved a plan for $900,000,000 of new money to invest in road improvements. About half of that is supposed to be spent in [...]
Clean Water For Everyone
June 25, 2003 – 9:07 pm
There was a time when clean water referred to the water we drink, opposed to the water in the natural environment, in our rivers, streams, and lakes. Clean water is now a term that more commonly refers to the quality of our rivers, streams, and lakes. I guess we just assume now [...]
This Is What We Don’t Want.
June 22, 2003 – 8:52 pm
The photo below is a snapshot of a fireworks tent. Recent changes in Minnesota law will allow tent sales for fireworks almost anywhere, even in cities, like Eden Prairie, that are restrictive on tent sales.
The fireworks industry has been very successful during the past two state legislative sessions in getting the state to amend [...]
Goodbye to Tria
June 20, 2003 – 12:13 pm
This is a photo of Tria Mann. It was taken during the spring of 2003 at the City of Eden Prairie employee awards ceremony when Tria was awarded the Jim Clark Ward for Excellence in Teamwork.
There are those employees in every organization that you just hate to lose. Tria Mann was one of [...]
Culver’s Is In Business
June 17, 2003 – 10:35 pm
Eden Prairie’s newest restaurant opened for business yesterday: Culver’s. Culver’s is part of the SW Metro Transit Hub development. It is the western anchor of the commercial developments that will eventually surround the transit hub and its parking garage. The Pickled Parrot is on the southeastern end of the development and [...]
Associations
June 16, 2003 – 7:32 am
The City of Eden Prairie belongs to a number of associations, probably too many to mention in this spot, that are actively involved in trying to influence the formation of public policy in St. Paul, and by extension, in Washington, DC as well. But I’ll mention of a few of the big ones in [...]
More Meet & Greet
June 13, 2003 – 3:35 pm
Left to Right: Scott Neal, City Manager; Robert Clarke, Regional Vice President of General Casualty Insurance; Mayor Nancy Tyra-Lukens, and David Lindahl, Economic Development Manager
The photo above was snapped at our most recent stop on our Meet & Greet tour of Eden Prairie businesses. This stop was at General Casualty Insurance. They [...]
Closing Time
June 11, 2003 – 4:02 pm
I’ve been away from The Blog for a couple of days. During the past week, my oldest kid graduated from High School this weekend and my wife had an emergency gall bladder removal surgery. Other priorities.
But now I’m back, and talking about liquor issues again. This time it is about the new [...]
Municipal Liquor: Part II
June 4, 2003 – 7:33 am
The Office of the State Auditor released its annual report of municipal liquor operations yesterday. You can find an article about the report in the Tuesday, June 2, 2003 Star Tribune, which has been pulled from their website so I can’t link you to it. . You can download a PDF copy of [...]
