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"Hollywood's Brush with the Law: The real-life lawyers of Jensen v. Eveleth Taconite Co. take a tour through North Country."
-- from Perspectives (the Magazine for the Minnesota Law School) (Spring 2006).
Oscar Wilde famously said that life imitates art
more often than the reverse. When it comes
to the law, it’s difficult to tell just how this truism cuts.
In a courtroom, real-life stories emerge only under the
influence of artful advocacy, bound by a framework of
rules and procedures and pruned of legally irrelevant
details. And if a real courtroom provides only an imitation of
life, should anyone be surprised when art’s depiction of a
courtroom saga fails to bear the unmistakable ring of
truth?
The film North Country offers an opportunity to consider the question from the vantage point of our own backyard . . . . . Full text. |
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"This #@^$! Old House"
-- "Back Home" essay in Midwest Home (September 2006).
The old adage about people
and their shoes applies equally to real estate. You can study disclosure statements
until your eyes blur, but you can’t really know a house until you step inside
and live there for awhile. . . .
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"Holiday Craftacular"
-- "Back Home" essay in Midwest Home (December/January 2006).
When it comes to the holidays, expectations often outstrip reality. For those of us who choose to celebrate the season through home décor, this can be particularly traumatic, especially when the desire to deck is unaccompanied by any real talent or flair. . . .
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Sample Newsletter Articles |
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-- from the Minnesota Ballpark Authority newsletter (spring 2009)
After an extensive nationwide search that began last fall, the ballpark’s Public Art Steering Committee has selected
St. Paul sculptor and muralist Craig David and
Phoenix artist Al Price to design and install two major public artworks at Target Field. . . . Full text.
-- from the Minnesota Ballpark Authority newsletter (fall 2008)
On September 30 the Minnesota Ballpark Authority issued its first Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for public art projects at Target Field, and the response has been both enthusiastic and voluminous. . . . . Full text. |
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--from the newsletter for the Phillips Partnership (May 2008)
Anyone familiar with the Chicago-Lake intersection can testify to the changes that have taken place there over the last several years. Statistics offer the driest version of the story: Phillips has seen overall yearly decreases in crime for some time now, with Chicago-Lake outperforming much of the sector. But the livelier, more interesting tale emerges at the corner itself, where low-octane criminality and rampant hanging out have been replaced with calm, purposeful bustle and flourishing economic development. . . .Full text.
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--from the newsletter for the Bottineau Boulevard Partnership (March 2007).
As early as the 1980s, the long-term transportation plan for Bottineau Boulevard included eventual construction of an LRT line that would stretch from downtown Minneapolis to the northwestern suburbs of Hennepin County. By 2000, however, political reality and fiscal famine had combined to render a Bottineau Boulevard LRT line a much more distant possibility. . . . Full text. |
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--from the newsletter for the Midtown Community Works Partnership (October 2006).
On September 7-8, 2006, a delegation of MCW partners, private developers, business owners, and representatives from the public sector traveled from Minneapolis to Portland for a firsthand look at that city’s widely-admired streetcar system. They discovered that Portland has great passion for its streetcar line and takes justifiable pride in the pattern of urban development it has created. Full text.
-- from the newsletter for the Midtown Community Works Partnership (August 2006)
Every form of public transit has its share of enthusiastic fans, eager to praise its particular virtues. From a design perspective, some might say that nothing rivals the elegant efficiency of the LRT that now speeds so effortlessly along Hiawatha Avenue. Others might argue that on a frigid Minnesota morning, there is no sight more welcome than the amber lights atop a Metro Transit bus as it rumbles towards figures huddled at a corner stop. But if the measure is sheer, unadulterated cheerfulness, surely nothing beats a streetcar. . . . Full text. |
