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Minnesota 2020 Journal: Building on, not trapped by, tradition
Grain elevators and small towns go together like grain elevators and small towns. They’re inseparable. The one doesn’t exist without the other. What happens to the town when the grain elevator disappears? The old Walnut Grove-Revere Farmers Elevator is coming down. It will shortly be a pile of wood shavings destined for poultry bedding. It’s an ignominious end to a structure that sustained my hometown. But, this isn’t a romantic reflection on an idyllic past. Even in death the elevator serves the agricultural cycle while highlighting the opportunity for rural economic development that builds on tradition but isn’t trapped by…
Reimagining Transit
What if public transit operated more like a membership organization than an inexpensive shared taxi service? And what if the riders themselves helped govern it? David Levinson, a skeptic at the University of Minnesota on all things transportation, asks these interesting, if slightly off-the-wall, questions in a new post on his lively and often counterintuitive blog The Transportationist. "Membership ... changes the perspective from being a customer to being a member if not owner of the system," he writes. "As a member of a club, I want there to be more members, as it helps spread the costs and raises…
