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Tag: Woodbury

Arts & Culture

A city slicker tries to get to Woodbury

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 29, 2016, 4:52 PM Jun 29, 2016
23 Comments

We curmudgeonly types live for those moments when a friend or colleague (sometimes they’re one and the same) tells us that we’re right. [Insert cliched reference to it not happening that often here].

The subject: The transportation backwater that is Minnesota.
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Politics

Lake Elmo takes a stand for the past

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 8, 2016, 7:05 AM Jan 8, 2016
64 Comments

Lake Elmo, a city famous for its insistence to remain a pre-sprawl town, has taken a big club to sprawl with its refusal to allow bus rapid-transit stations in its community.
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Politics

DFL chair slams Woodbury, home of DFL politicians

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 12, 2015, 4:40 PM Oct 12, 2015
31 Comments

DFL Chair Ken Martin provided a little how-to in alienating an entire city with his reaction to Jason Lewis’ announcement that he’s entering the race for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, even though he lives in the 4th Congressional District. In this case, Woodbury. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Taylor Swift, Woodbury style

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 22, 2015, 6:13 PM Aug 22, 2015
3 Comments

Everything you think you know about Woodbury is probably reinforced in this video, released yesterday by the city to try to get people to use less water. Read more →

Sports · Weather

Lightning prediction system takes burden off parents, coaches

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2015, 2:08 PM Aug 14, 2015
1 Comment

Woodbury has installed lightning detection systems to protect golfers and youth athletes and spectators. Read more →

Politics

Legislature to East Metro: ‘No transit for you’

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 26, 2015, 8:35 AM May 26, 2015
15 Comments

For seven years, Washington County taxpayers have been paying into the regional transportation pool, participating in a systemic buildout of public transportation, assured that although the priority was elsewhere, ‘your time will come.’

It probably won’t, if the Legislature has its way. Read more →

Sports

In Woodbury, pro sports and local government won’t mix

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2015, 10:00 AM Jan 10, 2015
11 Comments

The city has lost two private businesses it intended to help create a destination sports complex.
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Crime and Justice · Education

Records raise more questions over principal’s ouster

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 7, 2015, 11:14 AM Jan 7, 2015
0 Comments

There are certainly troubling aspects to the alleged actions of former East Ridge High School (Woodbury) principal Aaron Harper, who resigned under pressure in early November. Read more →

Woodbury teen faces a hostile world, triumphs

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 10, 2014, 8:42 AM Oct 10, 2014
4 Comments

Today’s column from the Pioneer Press’ Ruben Rosario is the sort of thing you want to put before every young person in your house to whom you’ve given a smartphone.

It’s the story of a courageous seventh-grade girl in Woodbury who reveals how a typical middle-school relationship degenerated quickly into sexual manipulation. Read more →

Surveys and trivia

There’s something about Woodbury. But what?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 22, 2014, 3:25 PM Sep 22, 2014
31 Comments

Woodbury’s a pretty good place. But if you squint your eyes, it also could be Anywhere, USA, which doesn’t do much to explain how it made Money Magazine’s Top Places to Live List. Read more →

Economy

A little piece of history dies forever in Woodbury

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 16, 2014, 6:03 AM Sep 16, 2014
2 Comments

In a symbolic loss for the city, the owners of the last working farm prepare to auction pieces of it off. Read more →

Rain gardens challenge the suburban lawn culture

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 16, 2013, 12:49 PM Jul 16, 2013
11 Comments

“This is crazy,” the man said as he and a colleague looked at the open pit in our front yard last week before turning to my wife. “I hope you like West Nile Virus,” he said. He was there to move the utility lines that stood in the way of one of 26 fascinating experiments Read more →

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