It has taken a few years, but the State Legislature has finally passed on new Transportation Bill. The new bill survived the Governor’s veto when both the House and the Senate voted to override the veto earlier this week. Among its many provisions, the ones that have received the most attention from the media are [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Threat Closes High School Today
February 27, 2008 – 8:57 am
Our Police Department is working closely with School District officials today to resolve a “threat” at Eden Prairie School. The incident that initiated the concern occurred yeaterday afternoon. School officials notified the Police. They worked yesterday and last night to investigate the matter, but were not completed with the investigation this morning, so School District [...]
Congratulations EPHS Girls Hockey
February 25, 2008 – 8:02 am
Congratulations to the Eden Prairie High School on their state hockey championship win Saturday night. For those of you who weren’t watching, the Eagle girls beat a scrappy team from Grand Rapids-Greenway 5-3 in the final to win the girl’s 2A championship game and complete a dazzling season with a record of 29-1-1.
The photo to [...]
Leadership Eden Prairie
February 22, 2008 – 2:50 pm
Leadership Eden Prairie is a program of the Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce. The purpose of the program is to organize a group of people who either live or work in Eden Prairie and then to provide them with a number of planned educational opportunities in which they learn about what makes Eden Prairie tick. [...]
Timeline of a Deal
February 20, 2008 – 8:09 am
Last week at their February 12 meeting, the City Council took the final actions it needed to take in order to sell a parcel of City-owned property to Presbyterian Homes, which is putting together a larger overall real estate deal that will redevelop the Broadmoor-Castle Ridge property on Prairie Center Drive.
It takes equal parts patience [...]
Presidents Day Testimony
February 19, 2008 – 2:02 pm
What did you do for the Presidents Day holiday? I helped my wife clean the house. I did some laundry. And I helped my son with an essay he is writing about Bolivia.
And I also testified at the a meeting of the Minnesota House Higher Education and Workforce Development Finance and Policy Committee meeting last [...]
Aftermath of Kirkwood
February 15, 2008 – 12:25 pm
One aspect of the aftermath of the shootings in the Kirkwood, Missouri Council Chambers is that it has reminded city officials everywhere to review their processes and procedures for managing unhappy citizens, thinly veiled threats, overt threats, citizen input at Council meetings and safety & security of public meetings - among many things. We have [...]
Back in Session
February 12, 2008 – 1:55 pm
The Minnesota State Legislature is back in session. It started today. 2008 is supposed to be a “short session”. The traditional objective of the short session is to address the capital improvement needs of the state, pass a bill that provides capital funding for those needs and then to adjourn.
Eden Prairie has an interest in [...]
Kirkwood, Missouri
February 8, 2008 – 2:42 pm
My heart goes out today to my colleagues at the City of Kirkwood, Missouri where a resident killed six people at their City Council meeting last night. It’s a terrible, terrible tragedy. You can read more about the event at this link from CNN: “Six Dead as gunman goes to war with Missouri city“.
As soon [...]
Proposed Arts Center in the Media
February 7, 2008 – 1:10 pm
There was a very nice article in the Star Tribune on February 5 written by Laurie Blake titled “Eden Prairie may get arts center.” I thought she captured the story well. I was glad that she went into a bit of detail on Roger Sampson. I’m sure people will be interested in the man whose [...]
Our #1 Metro Worry?
February 6, 2008 – 8:53 am
What’s your #1 public concern in the Twin Cities metropolitan area? The Metropolitan Council believes it is (no surprise): transportation. Below is a story from yesterday’s Star Tribune reporting on the annual State of the Region address by Met Council chair Peter Bell. Community Development Director Janet Jeremiah and I attended the event. Bell is [...]
Blog City
February 5, 2008 – 10:44 am
Late last year I did an interview for American City & County magazine regarding this blog. My interview is included in a story called “Blog City” in the January 2008 edition. It’s a short story. You can read it by clicking on this link: “Blog City”.
It’s been awhile since I’ve interviewed with national media sources [...]
All Faces Forward
February 4, 2008 – 7:51 am
A group of 14 City employees from our Police Department, Fire Department and IT Division have been spending a lot of time lately in a series of demonstrations by vendors of public safety software packages. Over the past three weeks, the group dedicated a day (yes, an entire day) to four different vendors in order [...]
