I authored the following commentary piece for the Eden Prairie Sun Current and the Eden Prairie News. I thought I’d share it in this space as well for my readers that don’t have access to those newspapers. It is about the City Council’s recent decision regarding the selection of the City Prosecutor.
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Commentary
Scott H. Neal, City [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Commentary: City Prosecutor Selection
September 29, 2006 – 11:51 am
Man Down, But Back Up Again
September 28, 2006 – 6:37 am
I was out of the office sick yesterday. I took charge of my own my own health care decision making. My treatment of choice: Robitussin-DM cough suppressant and expectorant. I think I had consumed about half the bottle before I looked on the side of the bottle (at my wife’s request, by the way) to [...]
All Aboard for LRT?
September 26, 2006 – 12:34 pm
The City of Eden Prairie has been talking about our city’s potential involvement in a new Light Rail Transit (LRT) line for a couple of years now. The discussion is being managed by the Hennepin County Regional Rail Authority. Consultants and staff to the Regional Rail Authority gave the City Council an update on the [...]
Feedback, Input and Comments
September 25, 2006 – 8:16 am
Probably the most common question these days about my blog is why I don’t have it open for “comments” like other bloggers do. There are a couple of reasons for that.
For one, blogging is just one thing I do in my job. I’ve got other things to do too. I fear that allowing open comments [...]
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes
September 22, 2006 – 12:49 pm
A common question we received in city government is this one: “Why are my taxes in X city higher than they were in Y city?” This is a difficult question to answer because there are so many factors that go into why one city’s taxes might be higher than another’s.
Along these lines, I prepared (with [...]
The Joy of Contributing: Fiscal Disparities
September 21, 2006 – 5:55 am
If you’re an Eden Prairie property taxpayer, I suggest that you take a look at these two maps. They are shown here as thumbnails, but if you click on either of them they will expand and be much easier to read. Chances are that you’ve never seen them before. They’re not secret or anything. They [...]
Prosecutor Selection Day
September 20, 2006 – 5:43 am
The City Council took up the issue of selecting a City Prosecutor at last night’s Council meeting. This has been an divisive issue for the Council in that there are a variety of strong feelings on the matter. The City has outsourced its criminal prosecution legal services to the Gregerson Rosow law firm for many [...]
James McGregor: One Billion Customers
September 14, 2006 – 3:25 pm
That’s Rick King standing in the background with his arm pointed at a power point presentation. At the time of this photo Rick was delivering the summation talk of a week of business conferences. Rick is the Chief Technology Officer at Thomson Legal & Regulatory in Eagan. He’s also an Eden Prairie resident. He’s also [...]
From Rubble to Reality
September 12, 2006 – 6:58 am
These are just three photos from an event I attended the other day at the Orchard Street Bridge over I-494. The event was a dedication of the newly expanded 494. The theme of the event was “From Rubble to Reality” reflecting the long demolition process necessary to remove the old sections of 494, crushing [...]
9/11
September 11, 2006 – 5:17 am
Like most Americans, I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing exactly five years ago today. I was working in Northfield. Right about now, I was driving into my office at City Hall when I turned on my car radio to here the new about a airplane hitting on the towers of [...]
The CMBAC
September 8, 2006 – 9:32 am
What is the CMBAC? Actually, I hope we don’t get into the habitat of calling it that. I use it here only to catch your eye. The CMBAC is an acronym for the City Manager’s Business Advisory Committee. The creation of the Business Advisory Committee was included in a proposal that I advanced to the [...]
First Day of School - 2006
September 5, 2006 – 9:41 am
Today is one of my favorite days of the entire year. Today is the First Day of School (FDOS). I’ve been looking forward to today since LDOS (Last Day of School) this past June.
It might be a bit of a stretch to call something a tradition when it has only been going for four years, [...]
