City manager says “marketplace has responded” and voices concerns about Ramsey County fiber proposal-- In 2009,North Saint Paulcity administrator Wally Wysopal was the loudest cheerleader for a proposed $18.5 million taxpayer-backed telecom network dubbed PolarNet. “It provides economic development opportunities like we don’t have today and that’s what we want to do is …
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Big Cuts for Government Program to Get Kids to Walk and Bike to School
A billion dollar government program to get kids to walk and bike to school that was the focus of a Freedom Foundation of Minnesota (FFM) investigation faces sharp funding cuts in the 2012 federal transportation legislation signed into law by President Obama last week. Advocates for the federal Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program released a statement calling the legislation “a major step …
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NXL/Passenger Rail Off the Tracks in Federal Transportation Bill
Does New Transportation Bill Derail Billion Dollar Twin Cities to Duluth NLX Passenger Rail Line? The federal transportation bill that finally became law last week keeps the wheels on highway funding, construction jobs and public transit programs, but appears to derail passenger rail projects like the proposed $1 billion Northern Lights Express (NXL) line from the Twin …
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