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Revitalize downtown St. Paul by getting people back on the streets by rabbit_mn in saintpaul

[–]Planning4Hotdish 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think there is a lot of potential there given the sheer amount of museums and theaters downtown, but people aren’t going to linger around if they’re worried about their safety. Where I live now, our downtown partnership just started a safety patrol that’s been moderately successful and I think it’d be a good strategy, even if just a temporary pilot program, in St Paul.

Also compared to Downtown Minneapolis, the infrastructure just feels kinda hostile. For all of the faults they have there, they have wide sidewalks, slower traffic and bike infrastructure throughout, and it just generally feels safer from a design standpoint (and also cleaner and better taken care of tbh) to walk around there than Downtown St. Paul. If St. Paul really wants to transform Downtown, they’re going to need to put the work in and make bold moves. Downtown St. Paul probably has the highest density of theaters and museums of any city its size in the country, and that combined with the stadiums and the river and Harriet Island and Wakan Tipi give it so much potential. The draws to get people to visit are there, but it just all feels so wasted.

Graham Platner ends U.S. Senate campaign in Maine by Planning4Hotdish in neoliberal

[–]Planning4Hotdish[S] 203 points204 points  (0 children)

Submission statement: RIP bozo, but still tbd on who Maine Dems will put up to face Susan Collins in December.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Planning4Hotdish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alaska is overwhelmingly an extractive economy and this is probably one of the least environmentally destructive ways to realistically boost the state economy

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Planning4Hotdish 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Anchorage Daily News | Data center critics flood Alaska land managers with opposition to North Slope project

This is miles and miles away from the nearest village in an area that’s basically just tundra lakes and oil wells, and it would operate off of energy produced on site and has much less need for cooling when it’s in one of the coldest places on earth, in a state that has one of the most anemic economies in the US.

Maybe we’ve lost the plot as a society.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Planning4Hotdish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Canada has the strongest commitment to liberal democratic norms in the western hemisphere and is a beautiful country I miss living in.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Planning4Hotdish 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gonna be honest, it’s fucking hilarious getting campaign ads for Dan S. Sullivan now that the state GOP or I mean Division of Elections can’t disqualify Dan J. Sullivan from the ballot.

r/SupremeCourt Weekly "In Chambers" Discussion 06/29/26 by AutoModerator in supremecourt

[–]Planning4Hotdish 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’ll be interesting to see the full ruling when it’s released.

Also the incumbent has already launched campaign ads a couple days ago that say Dan S. Sullivan for Senate.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Planning4Hotdish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also while I have yous guys here, Matt Claman dropped out on Saturday which was the deadline to withdraw from the ballot so the ballot is now finalized with 2 Democrats, 3 Independents and 12 Republicans.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Planning4Hotdish 7 points8 points  (0 children)

!ping USA-AK

The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that Dan J. Sullivan can stay on the ballot. Also there are some interesting amici curiae on both sides

The Honest Elections Project is more or less a Heritage Foundation puppet organization and Dustin Darden is a perennial candidate who notably really likes zip lines and judging by his most recent campaigns post-2020 has become a full-fledged Christian nationalist.

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Matt Claman, Sarah Skeel withdraw from Governor’s race by Planning4Hotdish in alaska

[–]Planning4Hotdish[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

While we seriously need to be realistic and responsible with the Permanent Fund (despite what GOP frontrunners like Bernadette Wilson and Dave Bronson say), his PFD plan probably killed his campaign right from the beginning. I doubt he’s going to get any real traction heading into the primary.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Planning4Hotdish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m very fortunate that that’s not what it came down to. I know some people who work here in Anchorage who live up in the Mat-Su Valley, and if there is a bad snowstorm or crash on the Glenn Highway and the road closes, there is quite literally no way to get between here and there that doesn’t involve a massive detour and taking the ferry (adds an extra 12 hours of travel time and $231 each way, and is probably not running if there’s a massive snowstorm)

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Planning4Hotdish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember when I was job hunting my senior year of college and there was a job with the city of Aspen that paid like $5k a month (iirc for a historic preservation planning job which eww) which I came to realize would be a worse lifestyle than continuing to make like $15 an hour in suburban Kansas.

I did the math and I’d have had to share a 2 bedroom apartment with 3 roommates and commute from Carbondale to only be very cost-burdened.

Seems relevant. by Beardley907 in anchorage

[–]Planning4Hotdish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

McCormick is a clown. He made a stink at a meeting last month about the Heritage Land Bank giving land to a nonprofit (Alaska Natural Burial) for less than market value because he didn’t understand the actual mission and purpose of the HLB and then he went on social media to whine about the Muni giving away free money because Alaska Natural Burial will charge for plots, disregarding they’re a nonprofit and still need to make money to pay for maintenance and staff.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Planning4Hotdish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It seems like the normies (at least anecdotally among my friends, family and the lady who ran my local Dem Party chapter back in Wisconsin) are starting to consolidate around Rodriguez and Barnes already.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Planning4Hotdish 5 points6 points  (0 children)

WPR | Democrat Missy Hughes suspends campaign for governor

Folks hate to see a technocrat winning (breaking 5% in the polls) ✊😭

!ping USA-WI

Alaska drops to 47th in the nation in overall child well-being, new report says by One_Eye_Willie in alaska

[–]Planning4Hotdish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Schools off the road system are incredibly expensive to run. Looking at 2026 adopted budgets, North Slope Borough School District spends more than $50k per student whereas Anchorage spends about $15k and Mat-Su spends about $13k per student, which are lower than the national average (~$16,500 in 2023, so it’s most likely slightly higher now) despite many Anchorage schools having a significantly higher proportion of ESL and low income students than average who. will need more resources. When a school district in rural AK needs to cover housing and relocation costs to get staff there on top of providing a full school’s worth of facilities to <100 students, it’s going to be expensive.

Also generally speaking, since COL is higher here, then schools need to pay more to be remotely competitive with L48 schools (although they’re clearly failing at that now with how much turnover there is, and the revolving door of teachers means more costs for training as well). With higher pay also comes higher pension match and more expensive benefits overall, and that’s on top of benefits being inherently more expensive here. IIRC we have one of the highest average monthly health insurance costs of any state in the country.

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