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If Michael Crow lied about this, he's a scumbag.

Maybe, but I guess that definitely depends on your frame of reference. My own personal moral compass weighs quality urban development (& all the positive externalities that come from it) above historic preservation (even if I really do like the look of old homes, inside and out). Michael Crow's personal compass also included his financial future. If an offer was on the table hundreds of thousands above another one, I can't fault him for wanting that outcome. Did he purposely lie? Maybe, and if he did that makes him less of a likable guy. But I guess my outsider's take is that he's no less unlikable than the people throwing any intellectually dishonest mortars towards him ("think of the boarding house tenants! [breath] we want it converted to a single family home!" or "we need more renters like we need a hole in the head").

The whole process is just so effed up and exhausting and we need to identify a better way of handling properties groups feel they want preserved. There's a tension between all sorts of factors (preservation, existing old buildings' affordability, housing supply, housing demand, tax base, emissions, gap between the market rate and the preservation-viable purchase price, etc) and almost all of those conversations are happening past each other right now.

EDIT: I recognize we're talking about real people here, one of whom has posted on this very forum in the past. I didn't mean for that post to pass absolute judgment, simply conjecture. Everything Michael Crow has posted here has seemed sincere and I'm only talking as a 3rd party observer to the whole situation (which I'm sure has been very trying and tiring for all involved).

The Healy Project People have done nothing but lie the entire time. But I will not resort to name calling.

I would like to upload the judges memorandum denying the injunction from December 23 so you can all see how the judge ruled, but when I try I get a message that says "The extension pdf is not allowed." Help?

From what I remember, the forum hosting package has a space limit for attached files that we hit long ago, and now you can't attach files to posts. Your best bet is uploading it to Dropbox or something similar and posting a link to it.

Or put it on something like scribd, though I'm not sure that can be embedded directly into the forum.

Thanks for the tips. Hopefully this link works.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y4ybxt4sx3hlx ... n.pdf?dl=0

Check out the T.P Healy, Master Builder: King of the Queen Anne Facebook page. They are on a mission to take this case "to the Court of Public Opinion." Trilby Busch's posts on the Healy Project.org are total slander.

Oh wow. That might be a new low

These people are fanatics and crazies. Just awful and childish.There are proposals to demolish other older homes in Uptown and these people don't lift a finger for that because they aren't they are part of TP Healy's legacy.

Don't worry, Ezra thought long and hard about what he wrote, and changed the post accordingly. https://twitter.com/WedgeLIVE/status/564299904374173696

Is anyone really surprised that a group that wants to hold on to the past so badly would attract a despicable misogynist?

I guess we shouldn't let the actions or words of a few individuals taint the entire movement or valid points they may bring up, any more than we don't hold all developers accountable for the pumping of water into Lake Calhoun by CPM. But still, it says a lot that the leaders of these groups (ex. Curtis, Busch, Christensen, MRRDC) do nothing to keep the fanatics in line (sometimes even liking their posts!) but stifle any talk that conflicts with their views.

streets.mn April Fool's Day post idea: a Twilight Zone episode where Anders Christensen gets transported back in time to meet T.P. Healy but Healy turns out to be a kangaroo or something

streets.mn April Fool's Day post idea: a Twilight Zone episode where Anders Christensen gets transported back in time to meet T.P. Healy but Healy turns out to be a money-grubbing, anti-sentimentalist, blueprint-recycling developer.

T. FTFY.

https://www.facebook.com/robin.garwood. ... 86?fref=nf

Thanks for that post. Nice to see that there is a counter wave of support for my councilwoman. By 2017 the apartments will be filled with younger educated voters who understand that now live here because we had a progressive city council that wanted to increase our tax base and ad more people to the city.

https://www.facebook.com/robin.garwood. ... 86?fref=nf

Thanks for that post. Nice to see that there is a counter wave of support for my councilwoman. By 2017 the apartments will be filled with younger educated voters who understand that now live here because we had a progressive city council that wanted to increase our tax base and ad more people to the city.

Wrong. Renters don't vote remember?

On the downside, every passing day Curtis and her nutjob fans seem to get more and more deranged. On the upside, I found out about the WedgeLIVE twitter feed as a result. Since I'm from St. Paul and can maintain a safe distance, I'm gonna call that a win, overall.

It is coming down right now.

Stole these from a FB friend