“Pray For Me, I Drive Highway 60″

“Pray for me, I drive Highway 60″. That is the slogan of the Southwest Minnesota Highway 60 Action Corporation that was organized in 1960. The groups purpose back then, as it is today, was to promote the improvement of Minnesota TH 60. They are still praying and waiting 48 years later. Last Thursday, July 24, [...]

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Must MNDot Commissioner Carol Molnau go?

Marshall Independent editor Dana Yost in the Editors Blog on August 15 says, “…I think Molnau should be stripped of her MnDOT commissioner role, keeping just the lieutenant governor position. This will remove any suspicion that politics or fiscal fear is getting in the way of a responsible response to the collapse. Molnau has said money [...]

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If you build it, will they come?

               The preceding pictures were taken in Southwestern Minnesota during the construction of the “super highway” I-90 in the early 60′s. It connected rural America and bypassed it at the same time. This investment in infrastructure did create jobs and opportunities and provided an economic boost to the region. With the collapse of the I-35 bridge [...]

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"Mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living"

Technorati Tags: I-35W bridge collapse, Politics, public infrastructure, Mother Jones, Minnesota Veterans Home, Pawlenty That quote has been attributed to Mother Jones, the feisty Irish-born labor activist/agitator who made her mark in history during the late 1800′s. It seems appropriate given the events of the last few days in Minnesota. At 6:05 PM, Wednesday, August 1, [...]

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