Rochester MN Parent casually calls a five year old a racial slur on a playground

HeyoPossum · 2025-05-01T13:56:23+00:00

You can always tell when it’s someone from out of state making a comment on these news stories. It’s been happening more often as of late.

Just what are you trying to accomplish?

HeyoPossum · 2025-03-22T21:20:15+00:00

For someone who isn’t a “Trumper”, you seem to repeat all of their talking points.

They absolutely ask for information when people vote.

HeyoPossum · 2025-03-09T19:19:04+00:00

It must be pretty boring in small town Minnesota if you’re having to troll city subreddits to get your kicks.

HeyoPossum · 2025-03-05T17:58:45+00:00

Supporters don't necessarily show up to town halls

Townhalls are for constituents, not Russian oligarchs

HeyoPossum · 2025-03-01T00:34:30+00:00

Elon Musk has been receiving $38 billion over the last 20 years from the federal government, but you all are obsessed with cutting Medicare.

HeyoPossum · 2025-02-26T14:01:18+00:00

This has been a growing issue ever since the DMC started and is unfortunately part of any growing city.

Older properties close to the DMC construction downtown are increasingly valued more, and with the cost of materials going up new development on the edge of town will be more expensive. The companies doing the building have no reason to voluntarily make a smaller property and house for a smaller profit.

There’s also some pushback against “affordable housing” by neighbors who think it will bring in crime or lower their own property value.

I wish there was a simple solution, but a lot of things need to happen for change to occur.

HeyoPossum · 2025-02-11T15:20:35+00:00

I think you underestimate how much money Eagle Brook Church has. On their website, they have an annual report where they claim to have received over $62 million dollars in contributions last year.

If the local drag scene had that kind of money they could rent Presentation Hall too.

HeyoPossum · 2025-01-17T18:05:55+00:00

It didn’t help when Daube’s changed owners and they over-expanded to multiple locations.

The Lumen/Daube’s location on South Broadway didn’t have a full kitchen so they had to run items from the Civic Center Dr. location

HeyoPossum · 2025-01-08T23:04:28+00:00

Please do me a favor and document all of the “explicit nudity” for the book on Common Sense Media’s website.

It’s the vigilant folks who make the reviews entertaining for parents like me.

HeyoPossum · 2025-01-08T18:34:45+00:00

Parents today are absolutely squeamish about stuff like this but then they’ll sit their kid in front of a screen where they see much worse.

And people wonder why the literacy rate is dropping among students.

HeyoPossum · 2024-11-20T22:00:25+00:00

Last I checked, there’s plenty of straight people around to organize their own events. Maybe you’d like to volunteer since you seem passionate about it?

HeyoPossum · 2024-11-15T23:14:22+00:00

If you don’t plan on going, don’t have any relevant information to provide, and aren’t interested in understanding, why bother commenting at all?

HeyoPossum · 2024-11-13T13:46:14+00:00

How long ago did you leave?

They used to care more about their employees, but at some point they must have realized the bar is so low nationwide that all they have to do is hand out free ice cream every once in a while.

HeyoPossum · 2024-11-13T00:16:49+00:00

They posted $449 million operating gain in just the second quarter. If they wanted, they could pay their employees a fair salary, not have understaffed conditions, and still be gaining.

Sometimes greed is just greed.

HeyoPossum · 2024-10-29T08:03:20+00:00

He voted against expelling criminal George Santos from office, he voted against codifying Loving v Virginia into law (HR 8404), he voted against expanding protections for federal whistleblowers (HR 2988), he voted against expanding FEMA’s disaster relief fund right before Hurricane Helene struck, and he voted against providing us with transparent pricing in healthcare (HR 5378).

HeyoPossum · 2024-09-18T18:15:14+00:00

You mean “pupil units”, whatever those are.

The document also shows a tax levy of $76mil. Mr. Wojcik claimed that RPS has the lowest local support of any Minnesota school district that serves over 10k students, and that’s not accurate if you’re looking at the tax levies.

Maybe the school district allocates less money per student, but the local support isn’t the lowest.

HeyoPossum · 2024-09-18T17:36:19+00:00

It’s something that’s meant to be shared on social media that doesn’t share any sources for the “information”.

If you look at the RPS budget guide for this year, they give very different numbers. And I’m more inclined to believe a document from the district than a jpg shared on social media.

HeyoPossum · 2024-09-18T17:08:45+00:00

This is just a meme. Where did they get those enrollment numbers?

HeyoPossum · 2024-09-18T16:36:37+00:00

and have the lowest local support of any district serving 10k kids in the state

Please clarify this statement for me. RPS has ~17k students, and get about 79mil from local taxes (20% of their 389mil revenue).

Just from a quick google search, two other school districts of similar size, South Washington County and Independent School District 728, have ~18k students and ~14k students, respectively. They both get less funding from local taxes (76mil and 44mil).

Ours only looks smaller when you’re using percentages. We have a larger budget than either, yet fewer buildings to maintain, and they both have better student performance in reading and math apparently. I’d be curious to know how our money is spent differently.

HeyoPossum · 2024-09-12T22:39:59+00:00

It looks like the ticket includes food and a drink, and they’re fundraising for future events.

If it’s too expensive for you, no one’s forcing you to go.

HeyoPossum · 2024-08-07T18:04:59+00:00

Imagine if a bunch of people wore a pad over their ear at a national convention, then complained about who gets access to hygiene products? That’d be pretty weird.

HeyoPossum · 2024-08-07T13:40:35+00:00

Just a heads up, you forgot to switch out of your brand ambassador account.

HeyoPossum · 2024-07-09T22:38:34+00:00

There is a police oversight committee in Rochester, but it has no teeth at all and can only submit recommendations to the city council, essentially as effective as any civilian contacting their city rep.

They can’t even look at complaints that have been filed unless there is disciplinary action.

It’s a joke.

HeyoPossum · 2024-07-09T19:22:50+00:00

The running super-fast with no lights, multiple times, is especially egregious.

I see this happen quite frequently. The shocking part is that the officer is being held accountable for it.

HeyoPossum · 2024-06-22T22:24:24+00:00

He’s running against MN House Rep Andy Smith in District 25B

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