Couple of quick tidbits from around the South Metro for you today:
1. Burnsville wasted $50,000 on consultants to draw up a 105 page document on how to be sustainable. Councilmember Charlie Chricton thought that their money and time would be better spent using common sense.
Charlie’s right. If they had chosen to go sans consultants they would have been able to afford Mayor Lizzy’s wishes to continue to beautify her backyard or even pay for 1/3 of the traffic light she so desperately wanted.
2. Apple Valley wants to lower lake levels to combat plant growth instead of using pesticides. They currently need 100% approval from residents with lake property to do so and there is a bill moving through that would only require 75%, a number which they feel is much more likely to be achieved.
3. Lakeville finally settled a lawsuit that it had brought against it when officers tasered a man and he fell off the roof of his house smashing his head on a parked car below.
STOP USING TASERS ASSHOLES. Haven’t the deaths and lawsuits been enough? Do taxpayers really need to continue to fund insurance policies to cover the actions of overzealous officers?
4. Eagan and Burnsville share over $1.2 million in federal stimulus dollars for energy efficiency.
Of course Mayor Mary’s name was mentioned in the article even though no data about how much Apple Valley is going to get was offered.
5. Rosemount believes that a revamped Central Park will draw people into it. It’s nearly invisible in its current local with supposed limited access and few amenities. New ideas include such wonderful additions as a gazebo and/or a fountain!
I can see it now…Rosemount’s Tourism Office offering advertisements to other South Metro citizens to come and see their Central Park on their staycations. Barf.
6. Savers is coming to Apple Valley.
I’ll continue to happily donate my gently used items elsewhere. How about you?
7. Thisweek begins a weekly community journalism show creatively named “The Show”. According to the blurb it will be conducted in an interview format and will cover discussions with local politicians, civic leaders, and South Metro newsmakers.
I’m interested in seeing how this one pans out. While I really enjoy the quick news briefs that are offered by the MNSun, I think that this one will be a lot more interesting in the long haul.
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April 7th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Where is the Savers going to be located? It just says the corner of 77 and county road 42. Maybe the old party supply store near Joann Fabrics?
April 7th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Geez, I am really going to have to think twice before the next time I get drunk and crawl up to the roof top!
April 7th, 2009 at 11:41 am
m.m. watch out for the birdz!!
bb
April 7th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Re: Tasers.
A drunk man suspected of domestic abuse standing on a roof throwing bottles at the police gets $675000 for damages after he falls down?
And the spin is, stop tasering?
The police is paid to serve and protect, how would they have protected the abused female and themselves? By asking the drunk nicely to jump down? By climbing up on the roof fighting the guy as he kept throwing projectiles at them? By waiting for him to sober up? If you are so incapacitated that you cannot follow directions from law enforcement you will pay consequences. Been awarded $675000 is not paying consequences, that is the outrage, not that police used force.
-Jonas
April 7th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
doing the math, all by myself, that’d be 325 for nickie and 350 for the, for the ah, oh well for lack of a better term, ‘lawyers’. not a bad haul for either.
aaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnddddddd, i wonder how long it’ll be before they’re called there again to try and rein in good old st. nick?
bb
April 7th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
I dont know what they should have done. Bill, any ideas? Cant really just leave the guy there. Probably cant shoot him.
I would think that it does not take much common sense to realize that if you knock out someones central nervous system and they are on a roof gravity might cause a nasty side effect, but one might claim it was actually karma and the guy deserved what he got?
April 7th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Oh, I would SO taser a bird!
April 7th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Chad,
I’m not a trained police officer so I couldn’t offer any other viable alternatives than anyone else can. That and it’s easy to offer suggestions after the fact (hindsight is 20/20 and all that) but I will guarantee you that the story about the cops anticipating that he might fall off the roof after they tasered him was nothing more than bullshit. They created that little white lie after the fact to cover their asses when he smashed his head on his way down.
April 7th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
I wonder if it was one of those slow motion “ohhhhh noooooo” as the drunk tasered guy tumbled off the roof.
April 8th, 2009 at 7:46 am
More serious crime in the south metro:
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=597804&catid=2
April 8th, 2009 at 7:53 am
Nils, thanks. You can also read more via the Pioneer Press here: http://www.twincities.com/dakota/ci_12097304
The worst part of all of this is the insistence of the Burnsville City Council in cutting Police and Fire staff. They claim that there hasn’t been a significant rise in crime in the city but they’re obviously lying.
Kautz needs to stop concerning herself with stupid bullshit like traffic lights and flower pots and instead needs to worry about making sure that her residents aren’t getting stabbed or gunned down as they cross the streets that already have traffic lights and crosswalks or that they aren’t smashed over the head with those flower pots while they walk the sidewalks in the Heart of the City.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Thanks for the blurb about our new video news show Bill. Maybe you can come on the show as a guest sometime? No swearing though. : )
April 8th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Jeff, have you ever heard the adage, “he’s got a face for radio”?
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Com’on Bill, you’re a handsome dude. You’d be great on video.