Continues statewide trend of combining county auditor and treasurer offices No matter who prevails in the election to become Crow Wing County Auditor in November, Brainerd lakes area taxpayers have already won. Crow Wing County Commissioners voted recently to eliminate the county treasurer office and combine it with the county auditor office, streamlining operations and saving an estimated …
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Cottage Grove, Hutchinson, Austin, St. Cloud School Board, and Becker County among those leading by example Minneapolis, MN—Amid increasing concern over how local officials will deal with unprecedented budget challenges in their communities, The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota (FFM) issued its first Issue Spotlight, commending several local governments for exploring creative, effective ways to …
City Spotlight: St. Louis Park's "green" wireless Internet mess The City of St. Louis Park's experiment with a city-owned solar-powered wireless Internet network has come to an ignominious end. After spending almost two years and hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars; after installing eight miles of fiber-optic cable and 490 16-foot-tall poles on which unsightly solar panels and wireless …
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