Minneapolis Park Watch

PedalPub News July 17, 2008, 12:15pm Lots of good news from the PedalPub… The full newsletter is below the fold. Some highlights: PedalPub Bill passed and you’ll see pedalers with drinks in hand in Minneapolis and St. Paul, PedalPub has joined up with the Twins to present Mobile Tailgate Parties, PedalPub returns to some great Mpls. routes, thanks to a new contract with the park board and Amstel buys a PedalPub… read on.

Thanks to a dedicated reader of MNPublius we found out today that Jon Olson, former President of the Minneapolis Park Board filed for the 58A house seat against incumbent Joe Mullery. Olson briefly ran for the 5th Congressional District seat in 2006. Peggy Flanagan, a friend of MNPublius was running a spectacular campaign against Mullery until she dropped out a few weeks ago citing her mothers health. Mullery is one of the last vestiges of the old Minneapolis North side political/labor machine

Lots of different takes on the Red Bull Illume exhibit in which some big black cubes are perched on the Stone Arch bridge. They light up at night revealing some pretty amazing photography. Taylor talked about it as an art exhibition. My take away is I’ll wander over if I happen to be in the area, but I’m not going out of my way. Corporate Babysitter talked about the crass advertising aspect. Peter Fleck is concerned about some logistical issues. Looks like they considered pedestrian traffic

The big Red Bull photography exhibit is being set up on the historical Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis and will open tomorrow night, July 10, at 8 p.m. Red Bull Illume began as a quest to find the 50 best raw moments in action and adventure sports. Photography experts and esteemed photo editors from around the world served as contest judges and hand-selected 50 images from the 7,200 submissions received from photographers in over 90 countries worldwide. These astonishing images now compris

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Flat Files #8: 1999 Design Insights Lecture Series poster by Ryan Nelson at 2:30 am 2008-06-26 Filed under: Flat Files 2 Comments — The 1999 Design Insights Lecture Series poster for the Walker Art Center (co-presented by AIGA Minnesota) is simply the most thorough and exhaustively produced poster I have seen in my day. Thus the poster is a deserving addition to our Flat Files collection. With the informational side of the poster designed by Daniel Eatock and Andrew Blauvelt and

No Comments » What is it with the people in Seattle? Monday, June 9th, 2008 (LINK) The city of Seattle may ban bonfires on park beaches to help fight global warming. The park staff is recommending a ban that will go before the park board at Thursday’s meeting. The staff says bonfire smoke adds to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The board could start restricting fires this summer, and a ban would take effect next year. The parks department tried to ban beach fires in 2004 after r

BIGMAC508 is your Red Box free movie code for this weekend. Be sure to use this one at McDonald's only. It will not work at any Wal-Mart, Cub or County Market! FRIDAY JUNE 6th Alphabits Pottery Barn Kids 12161 Elm Creek Boulevard Minneapolis/St. Paul MN 55369 Pottery Barn Kids presents two free concerts in the store. 763.420.7338 http://www.potterybarnkids.com Time: 10am & 11am Cost: Free The Mad Ripple Friday Night Hootenanny Lake Harriet Minneapolis/St. Paul MN 55410 The park board pre

You may be able to help secure $1 million for restoration work at Minnehaha Falls. But you may have to go outside to do it. According to an article by Ron Way on MinnPost, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is willing to contribute around $1 million toward the renovation of the crumbling walls surrounding Minnehaha Falls . . . but only if they can verify that they’re historic in nature: Corps doesn’t actually know whether falls’ walls are historic The Minnesota State Office of Historic Preserv

Earlier this week, Ron Werner took me on a most unpleasant walk around Cedar Lake, one of Minneapolis’s famous Chain of Lakes. Lovely trails border three sides of the lake, but most people think the southeast corner, a place of lush green lawns that meet the lake with gazebos and docks, is all private property. It isn’t. A strip of shoreline all around Cedar Lake is owned by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. A handful of lucky property owners have essentially used that public land as

A new low(e): Ads proposed for Minneapolis parks by: Chris Steller Wed May 28, 2008 at 2:42:13 PM from MN Monitor read more

Here is your Red Box Free Movie Code to use this weekend: MEMORIAL It is a nice weekend to go out and try something new, here are a few ideas if you live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The free Concert in the Parks have really begun now that the weather has finally turned warm! FRIDAY MAY 30th Edina Art Fair Families can browse the wares of local and national juried artists and craftspeople during this popular fair, now in its 42nd year. The fair also features food vendors and li

I was told that the sundew were blooming, right exactly where I was looking several days ago. So I had to go back and look for them. I saw sundew once before, in a floating bog between Upper Hegman Lake and Trease Lake in the BWCAW. They were maybe a half inch, delicate and deadly. I had seen pitcher plants, but the snap-trap of the sundew seemed sinister. I loved them. I have been looking for the sundew in the Quaking Bog for several years. At last I found them today. For scale, I've placed my

bikersminneapolis is lousy with bike paths. the park board maintains more than 43 miles of designated biking paths around city's lakes and along its creeks. nearly six miles of converted railway line extend across the city's center for bikers. there are many bike lanes in, to and from downtown, and a whopping 82 miles of off-street trails. so why do i always end up driving behind some tour de france wannabe who insists on riding in the street?  i understand when there is no other option, like f

I attended this wonderful event at Little Earth yesterday, where solar panels were installed to offset energy expenses. The plan is for the entire community to have a panel on each home. The keynote speakers were Van Jones and Winona LaDuke. What I found interesting to note here is that both were adamantly opposed to the Midtown Burner proposed by Kandiyohi Partners ( R.T. Rybak no doubt felt uncomfortable). Both also feel we can change course nationally on energy policy, putting forward initi

May 14, 1908 WANT MARK TWAIN TO LECTURE. Part of Plan to Raise Money to Buy Animals for the Zoo. A lecture by Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) in Convention hall is among the early possibilities, the receipts from which if given will be devoted to the purchase of a menagerie which has been offered to the Zoological Society to be installed in Swope park zoo. There are many rare and attractive animals in the collection which has been offered for $9,000, and can be had just as soon as the money is a

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Park Board to public data requests: Nothing to see here, folks As originally printed in the Minnesota Monitor Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 3:46:57 PM By Chris Steller The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has told residents who requested public data that at least two top staffers — superintendent Jon Gurban and general manager Don Siggelkow — now make a policy of regularly deleting their e-mail correspondence. Posted by Liz Wielinski on Sat, 05/03/2008 - 9:41am.

In a case with remarkable parallels to the situation on Nicollet Island, courts in Illinois have halted construction of a private school's athletic facility on Chicago public parkland

Latin School of Chicago is halfway done building a $2 million soccer field primarily for its own use in adjacent Lincoln Park. The school struck a backroom deal with the Chicago Park District in December 2006. The public process that followed was deficient to nonexistent. On the strength of that, the school began construction in November 2007 and was set to complete the project on May 26, 2008. But the project, seen as a private school's land grab of public property, stirred outrage.

On April 16, a nonprofit grassroots citizens group called Protect Our Parks filed suit against the city, the park district and the school. The project soon unraveled. First, on April 25, a Cook County Circuit Court judge granted an injunction stopping the school from installing lighting, scoreboard, goalposts, benches, or signs. Then on May 2, a state appellate court halted construction altogether. Now the school is making offers to try to settle with the citizens group before a May 20 hearing which could mark the end of its project.

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Minneapolis could get its first riverfront development coordinating board since the early 1980s under legislation soon to hit Gov. Tim Pawlenty's desk. Yesterday House and Senate conferees settled their only difference: the date by which the Minneapolis City Council and the city's independent park board must ratify the new organization (Aug. 1). The nonprofit's task: to focus private and public planning and investment, which the city's diffuse power structure may inhibit. (St. Paul's river n