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Deal would tap Met Council funds to buy member’s family business site

By Chris Steller | 01.13.10 | 8:36 am

The Minneapolis park board is planning to use $1.7 million in Metropolitan Council funds to buy a piece of Mississippi riverfront property from the family business of a Met Council member.

Minneapolis park board has pattern of problems with free speech

By Chris Steller | 03.26.09 | 8:08 am

Every couple of years, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board makes headlines for violating citizens’ right to free speech. The latest example? The board’s president, Tom Nordyke, and superintendent, Jon Gurban, are banning the Minneapolis Charter Commission from holding

Pork flies: Bill makes state pay for same land twice

By Chris Steller | 05.01.08 | 9:45 am

At the Minnesota Capitol, pigs — or at least pork — do fly. Some pork, like the proposed state subsidy for a new parking ramp at the Mall of America, flaps its wings loudly above…

Park Board to public data requests: Nothing to see here, folks

By Chris Steller | 04.23.08 | 3:46 pm

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has told residents who requested public data that at least two top staffers — superintendent Jon Gurban and general manager Don Siggelkow — now make a policy of regularly…