Muni-golf a handicap to city residents, who subsidize tens of thousands of rounds and carts annually Minneapolis, MN -- A Freedom Foundation of Minnesota analysis of city-owned golf courses throughout the state concludes that municipal golf courses lost approximately $2 million in 2007, the most recent year with comprehensive available data of municipal golf enterprise funds. At $50 per round, …
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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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