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Bike-Walk Work Deserves its Own Season
To Minnesota's two universally acknowledged seasons -- winter and road construction -- we can add a third: bikeway openings. Bike Walk Twin Cities, the federally funded nonmotorized transportation developer, expects a record number of projects to be completed this year in Minneapolis, St. Paul and suburbs. The most long-awaited of them is the University Bike Trail from the St. Paul campus to near downtown Minneapolis via the old Northern Pacific Railroad No. 9 bridge across the Mississippi River. This project has been in the works for more than 20 years, with Metropolitan Council funding repeatedly turned back because of disputes…
A Balance Between Property Tax Relief and Public Investment
Minnesota conservatives are complaining about the property tax provisions of the 2013 omnibus tax act, asserting in an e-mail that too much of the property tax aid and credit increase in the act is going to Minnesota counties, cities, towns, and school districts and will not translate into property tax reductions. Minnesota 2020 debunked some of these idea's in an article last week, explaining that the 2013 tax act is providing the single largest increase in the homeowners’ property tax refund (PTR) in nearly four decades. In addition, significant new tax relief is being distributed to renters through the renters’ PTR…
