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CATCHING UP

CATCHING UP

We’ve been catching up on things.  Without further ado: Adventures in Customer Service with City Employees Image by libraryman via Flickr To the City of St. Louis Park, MN:  Nice save by one of your field representatives after I called to report discolored water that trickled down into no water.  With the ultra below-freezing temperatures [...]

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ENDANGERED SPECIES – THE COURTEOUS DRIVER

Part of our series examining ideas, practices and mores that appear to be on their way to extinction. Last night, Minneapolis got its first measurable snowfall, the apex of which occurred, as it tends to do, during afternoon rush hour.  Avoiding major streets, I arrived at home at the usual time right after Pete did, [...]

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RUNES

I spent the weekend with friends near Kensington, Minnesota, about 2-1/2 hours northwest of the Twin Cities.  In 1897, a great slab of stone with carved inscriptions, the Kensington Runestone, was discovered entwined within a tree’s root structure by a farmer clearing his field down the road from where we visited. Runes are letters in [...]

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