Utah governor declares four-day work week for many state agencies.
Utah’s Spectrum (6/29, Van Deusen) reported that Gov. Jon M. Huntsman (R) will put “many state government agencies” on a four-day work week, beginning in August. Huntsman, who noted that “[t]his is something that has been done at a local government level,” said he would like [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Doing Work Differently
June 30, 2008 – 12:51 pm
Swapping Jobs with Rena
June 26, 2008 – 2:13 pm
That’s me (R) and KARE-11 TV reporter Rena Sarigianpoulos. Rena does the field and feature reporting at KARE, the Twin Cities’ NBC affiliate. She does a weekly feature called Job Swap With Rena in which she trades jobs with someone in the community. In today’s edition of the feature, she traded jobs with me. You [...]
City Manager Question Time: Day 5.3
June 23, 2008 – 7:03 am
I suffered some technical difficulties on Friday. Regrettably, I was not able to provide you with the special free blog post I promised. Not to worry. It may be Monday, June 23. It may be the start of a new work week. But nonetheless, here is your Friday installment of City Manager Question Time.
Question [...]
City Manager Question Time: Day 4
June 19, 2008 – 11:54 am
Here’s my contribution for City Manager Question Time: Day 4. For those of you scoring at home, I had to skip Day 3 yesterday. I’ll give you a free blog tomorrow to make up for it.
Question #4: Our company is located on Wallace Rd. in Eden Prairie. We have a person living in Victoria [...]
City Manager Question Time: Day 2
June 17, 2008 – 11:47 am
It’s Tuesday, Day 2 of City Manager Question Time Week. Here is an actual question, and an actual answer, from earlier this year:
Question #2: Dear Mr. City Manager, I am a resident of Eden Prairie. Recently, more people tend to concern consumption of healthy food (organic food and food safety, etc.), and we are [...]
City Manager Question Time
June 16, 2008 – 7:19 am
I get questions every week through my blog from residents and non-residents alike wondering about all kinds of different things about Eden Prairie. About half of them require a response. The other half just want to tell me something about the community, or make a comment about the blog itself. For this week’s series of [...]
Citizens League
June 12, 2008 – 3:51 pm
I spent the first two hours of my morning today in St. Paul at an event sponsored by the Citizens League. The event was a planning meeting for the Citizens League’s Regional Policy Conference, which is scheduled for September 23 in Chaska.
The event today wasn’t billed as a focus group, but that’s sort of how [...]
A Blue Creek
June 9, 2008 – 5:15 am
This is a photograph of a stream in Eden Prairie. It was taken two weeks ago. It is a real photograph. It is untouched by Photoshop or any other kind of Internet fakery.
It’s blue. More accurately, it’s Smurf-Blue. The reason it’s blue is that the foolish employees of a painting contractor working on a project [...]
Automated External Defibrillator
June 4, 2008 – 7:11 am
This is an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED). It is attached to the wall near the main reception desk of the building where I work, Eden Prairie City Center. I’ve been trained by the Eden Prairie Fire Department how to use the AED safely and effectively in case one of my coworkers or a guest to [...]
