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minnow fan 
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Posted on: Feb. 15 2004,9:43 pm |
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Q: If you look at a map and draw a circle 30 miles out from Albert Lea, from just East of Blue Earth to Minn Lake to Bixby down to Rose Creek and Adams into Northwood and over to Rake what similarities do you see in the circle?
A: No real progress, no real development.
Look just outside the ring and you see some remarkable progress, especially on the Minnesota side. Mankato, Janesville, Waseca, Owatonna, Dodge Center, even little Mapleton has nearly the number of new housing starts as Albert Lea.
Albert Lea is a mess and it better get on track soon, other wise it should be content with being an old meatpacker ghost town of 15,000 along the interstate people could care less about. Towns like that are a dime a dozen.
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Even if you think the ALEDC is a good idea, do you really want to put Sparks and Bishop in charge of all the economic development in Albert Lea?
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MrTarzan
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Posted on: Feb. 15 2004,11:33 pm |
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But we have such a nice new Courthouse. That must count for something, right? And look at our school, that will bring in tourists and business, won't it? I heard it would. 
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Be not simply good, be good for something-Henry David Thoreau
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minnow
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Posted on: Feb. 15 2004,11:45 pm |
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Don't forget the new library and the new downtown. Aragons gets a $200,000 grant to fix up the face of the building. LOL
I needs to gets me some of that thar $$$$.
Regis?$$$$
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cwolff
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Posted on: Feb. 16 2004,6:27 am |
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If there is ever a run on the banks or city hall, Sparky, Pam and Gab can lock themselves up in the courthouse!
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Clovis
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Posted on: Feb. 16 2004,3:38 pm |
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Yikes, minnow fan. That's scary. Maybe we should start a "no rural blight" campaign in AL...
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On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. --Antoine de St-Exupéry
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MrTarzan
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Posted on: Feb. 16 2004,3:53 pm |
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Let's give everyone within 30 miles $200,000 to fix up whatever they want, then it will be such a nice happy place everyone will want to come here and the tourism dollars at $.05 tax will pay for it. IF we fall short, we can just sell some of our buildings that no one bothered to fix up for $1.00 to Twin City developers to recoup it. We will be on a roll for the future, selling tickets to our state of the art courthouse. We can give out complimentary fish too 
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Be not simply good, be good for something-Henry David Thoreau
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Truth
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Posted on: Apr. 13 2004,3:46 am |
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Fish?
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Nietzsche
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chanel54
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Posted on: Apr. 13 2004,2:17 pm |
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We own a small business in Albert Lea. How do we get one of these grants to improve our business? Where do we apply?
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minnow fan
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Posted on: Apr. 13 2004,4:44 pm |
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Just give Pam a call & tell her you need a hook up!
You own a small business in Albert Lea, you have my respect, it isn't easy to do business here.
How has business been the past 5 years or so? How much confidance do you have that Albert Lea is on the right track for the future?
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Even if you think the ALEDC is a good idea, do you really want to put Sparks and Bishop in charge of all the economic development in Albert Lea?
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chanel54
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Posted on: Apr. 13 2004,6:18 pm |
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Business has been good for us, which is why we think about expanding. I don't feel Albert Lea will ever grow to be much more than it is right now. Which is not bad but sad that opportunities were missed years ago. Unless we can fall into something fabulous for the "Farmland" sight I don't see any growth in our city's future. Don't get me wrong, though, I like Albert Lea.
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