Comments on: AM.MN: This is only a test. Had this been a real bank robbery …

By: Chris Steller

Chris Steller — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:14:06 +0000

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.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:00:58 +0000

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%.

By: Chris Steller

Chris Steller — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:34:58 +0000

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.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:15:06 +0000

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.