Click Me Hard: How to lose a ton of money selling ice cream in the parks
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SW Journal: Getting a gondola on Lake Calhoun is a hard row
» A whimsical craft runs into the Minneapolis Park Board's hard business realities
March 6: This Week in Park Board History
It was 3 years ago on March 6, 2002 that angry citizens expressed their outrage in person at the regular Park Board meeting over the Board's proposal to put Dairy Queen franchises in the Lake Harriet and Lake Calhoun refectories.
Comments to Park Board during Open Time on Feb. 16
Our country is at a crossroads.
It seems that over the last 24 years there has been a general movement within many levels of government to shift power away from the people, the public sector, to business, the private sector. Nationally, it started with the Reagan administration and their repeated indictment of government as "Bad" and regulation as "Bad" and business as "Good".
Skyway News: More Private Restaurants in Parks
Spurred by declining tax dollars and the success of Lake Calhoun's Tin Fish restaurant, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is considering developing a restaurant in Loring Park and at least three other park sites.
SW Journal: Putt-Putt for the parks?
By Scott Russell
Life is imitating art.
This summer, the Walker Art Center opened a popular miniature golf course as part of the Sculpture Garden -- 10 holes designed by area artists and architects. The course is scheduled to close Monday, Sept. 6 -- but the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board staff may create a permanent Putt-Putt to make some bucks-bucks.
Tom at "Click Me Hard" writes about Dairy Queen and more
Tom at Click Me Hard wonders why the MPRB has a hard time freezing water in the winter and selling ice cream in the summer.