Posted on 21 June 2011. Tags: Bridges, Economics, Flour Mills, Infrastructure, Minneapolis, Mississippi, Pillsbury, Republicans, Stone Arch Bridge
This past Friday, I was standing on the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis at a Laborers rally to push for massive infrastructure investment as a way to create jobs, and rebuild the country. In an obvious way and a less obvious way, standing on the bridge spanning the Mississippi gives one a clear understanding […]
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Posted on 31 August 2007. Tags: Foreclosures, Housing Bubble, Minneapolis, Northside Home Fund
Subprime mortgages, foreclosures and the housing bubble have been discussed a great deal on this blog and elsewhere so I thought I would take the opportunity to focus on how this crisis has affected one community and what the community is doing to fight back. North Minneapolis is a neighborhood with working class roots that […]
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Posted in General Interest