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Glazed Over: Donald Trump’s Tiny Windows Conspiracy

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 admin 0 Comments Donald Trump, energy, energy efficiency, energy waste reduction, glazing, green new deal, home rehab, home renovation, home repair, insulation, windows

Last night at the second of two US presidential debates, Donald Trump brought up something that baffled even those who

Construction Sustainability

Old House Love: Ditch The Chemical Floor Finishes

October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 admin 0 Comments barrier finish, carpentry, chemicals, DIY, finish carpentry, floor finishing, floor refinishing, flooring, green building, hardwood flooring, historic preservation, home improvement, home rehab, home renovation, lacquer, LEED, linseed oil, natural finishes, oak, old house love, old houses, petrochemical, petroleum distillates, polyurethane, Renovation, sanding, shellac, softwood, trim carpentry, usgbc, varnish, wood finishes, wood finishing, woodshop, woodworking, zero-VOC

Nat explores wood finishes using a domestically-made, zero-VOC linseed oil-based varnish for some 1895 hardwood floors.

Burgerbanism Culture & Language Food Minneapolis-St. Paul Movements & Organizing

Somali Hospitality at Afro Deli in St. Paul

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 admin 0 Comments abirahman kahin, africa, afro deli, amin omar, food, ilhan omar, minneapolis, msp, palace theater, pedestrianization, snacks, somali, somali-american, somalia, st. paul, twin cities

Healing a fractured economy and a fractured culture with community conversation– and game-changing sambusas.

Culture & Language Historic preservation Travel

Postcards from Dubuque: Then and Now

October 12, 2020October 12, 2020 admin 0 Comments american history, anamosa, culture, dubuque, fox, gujarati hotel mafia, historic preservation, iowa, language, meskwaki, mississippi, native and indigenous peoples, quebec, quebecois, sac, sauk, upper mississippi, us history

A parable of delicious mini-donuts and– stories about those who came before the mini-donuts.

Historic preservation Iowa Parks and Public Space

Dubuque’s Eagle Point Park: Alfred Caldwell’s Unsung Masterpiece

October 8, 2020October 14, 2020 admin 0 Comments alfred caldwell, burnham plan, chicago, chicagoland, chris olson, city beautiful, daniel burnham, duane hagerty, dubuque, garden city, green space, heritage works, iowa, jens jensen, mississippi, park, parks, prairie, prairie school, public parks, public space, steeple square, upper mississippi

Nat tours Eagle Point Park with Dubuque city planner Chris Olson and Heritage Works’ Duane Hagerty.

Art & Design Business & Economics Culture & Language

The Record Store Slash Venue: A Quaint, Necessary Reminder of Pre-COVID Times

October 7, 2020October 5, 2020 admin 0 Comments bands, cassette tapes, concerts, DRM, filesharing, minneapolis, minnesota, music, music industry, music venues, musicians, napster, p2p, performance, record stores, records, shows, st. paul, streaming, streaming services, theaters, venues, vinyl

In St. Paul, after imaging Afro Deli, I stopped into Eclipse Records, a mainstay of the Twin Cities retail music

Business & Economics Historic preservation Transit infrastructure Urban Planning

Detroit Fairgrounds Site: Alternatives to Permanent, Monumentally Bad Decisions

October 6, 2020October 5, 2020 admin 0 Comments 8 mile, adaptive reuse, brooks patterson, brownfield, dave coulter, DDOT, Density, Detroit, duggan, economic development, eight mile, francis grunow, historic preservation, mike duggan, preservation, QLINE, redevelopment, RTA, SMART, state fairgrounds, state fairgrounds site, transit, transit infrastructure, woodward, woodward avenue

The State Fairgrounds site is centrally located, and it’s huge. Too huge to make some monumentally bad decisions about permanently turning it into a Shelby Township-style strip mall.

Business & Economics Culture & Language Iowa

Postcards from Des Moines: A Trip To RAYGUN

October 5, 2020October 4, 2020 admin 0 Comments clothing, coastal chauvinism, des moines, entrepreneurship, midwest, midwestern, panmidwestern, raygun, startup, t-shirt, t-shirts

Returning from Minneapolis and on a roundabout, triangular route to Dubuque, I stopped into RAYGUN, the Midwest’s favorite t-shirt shop,

Detroit Historic preservation Mobility Transit infrastructure

Tour of Ford’s Michigan Central Station Project

September 22, 2020September 21, 2020 admin 0 Comments adaptive reuse, biking, corktown, dearborn, Density, Detroit, detroit international bridge company, economic development, Ford, ford motor, historic preservation, land use planning, matty moroun, Michigan Central Station, micromobility, mobility, Mobility Corridor, moroun, multi-modal transportation, new mobility, public transit, regional transit authority, RTA, scooters, southeast michigan, speculation, train station, train stations, trains, transit, transit infrastructure, trump, urban living

Michigan Central Station, the iconic, hulking, centenarian structure that has sat vacant for decades, is perhaps the flagship redevelopment project

Business & Economics

Trillion-Dollar Company: “Have You Considered Doing A Free Internship?”

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020 admin 0 Comments 2020, aspirationalism, Avalon, career, career development, careers, Detroit, free internship, internship, job applications, jobs, networking, new center, professional development, professionalism, stock market, stonks, unpaid internship, untethered

Someone from one of the world’s largest corporations suggested that maybe my best bet is to do an unpaid internship. We’re still doing that in 2020?

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