AM.MN: This is only a test. Had this been a real bank robbery …
Tuesday, June 09, 2009 at 8:30 am
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Police swarmed a bank in Benson after a security company misinterpreted a message from its own employee, who was testing the alarm system, as the signal for a robbery-in-progress. Two calls at 2:29 p.m. Sunday sent city, county and state squads scrambling to the Bank of the West, where they set up a perimeter, observing two male subjects inside who, perhaps understandably, did not come out. The standoff unraveled only after the arrival of backups from the police department, sheriff’s office and state patrol — and a phone call to the bank.
Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …
WILLMAR: Farmers praise ‘multimillion-dollar rain.‘ Downpours over the last few days washed away talk of droughts during the Great Depression. [West Central Tribune]
ST. CLOUD: Foreclosures hold steady. The rate of area homes lost to foreclosure so far this year — 47 per month — is about what it’s been for the same period in the last two years. [St. Cloud Times]
OWATONNA: City backs out of Kids First. Sports for junior high school kids isn’t really first — it’s just one of many library and parks programs to get cut off from city funds. [Owatonna People's Press]
BREITUNG: State may take back cash for park. It’s Gov. Pawlenty’s pet project, but the land-deal snag holding up a new Lake Vermillion State Park means locals can’t spend $379,000 on park infrastructure. [The Timberjay]
BENSON: Buyers scarce for homes high-schoolers built. Houses built by construction classes are usually easy for school districts to sell, but not this year — even at rock-bottom prices. [Morris Sun Tribune]
MINNEAPOLIS: Eight want to replace ’807.’ Of the 80 people interested in building a new Minneapolis Public Schools headquarters (now at 807 Broadway St. NE), the number turning in proposals is down to eight — meeting a drastic reduction that goes way beyond the school-dictionary definition of “decimated.” [Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal]
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Comment posted June 9, 2009 @ 9:15 am
I wish you and other anti-Pawlenty people would stop referring to Vermillion as his “pet project” and the like. I don’t like Pawlenty either, but no one is all bed. His record on environmental issues is better than most Republicans and this Vermillions project is of great importance. I support the Governor on this, even if I oppose him on most everything else.
Comment posted June 9, 2009 @ 10:34 am
Thanks for your comment, Paul. I didn’t actually mean “pet project” in a pejorative sense in this case, although I see how you read it that way. It’s a fact he backed the new park, and so it’s been surprising to see the project founder, and the loss of local funding attached to it is an interesting kind of fallout.
Comment posted June 12, 2009 @ 12:00 am
Of the 80 people interested in building a new Minneapolis Public Schools headquarters (now at 807 Broadway St. NE), the number turning in proposals is down to eight — meeting the school-dictionary definition of “decimated.”
Am I reading this right? The number went from 80 to 8? In that case the situation definitely does not meet the dictionary definition of “decimated,” which is reduction by 10%, not to 10%.
Comment posted June 12, 2009 @ 5:14 am
Thank you for the comment, Aaron. I seem to have gotten a couple different definitions of “decimated” mixed up: reduced by a tenth, and reduced by a drastic amount (something like nine-tenths). I’m fixing the post to reflect your correction.
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