Latest Communitysolutionsmn Podcast Episodes
Episode 253- By Hook, But Mostly By Crook
Community Solutions Podcast - June 17, 2022 03:51 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsHennepin County and the Met Council are in agreement that the Blue Line Extension light rail will go right up the gut of County Rd 81, but who else is in agreement? This story goes back decades to the Bottineau Boulevard Partnership, where all the cities on the line, Hennepin County, Target Cor...
Episode 252- Now How Much Would You Pay?
Community Solutions Podcast - June 06, 2022 04:27 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Why does every city seem to be in competition for the latest and the greatest amenities? City councils seem to clamor for pools, golf courses, walking trails, community centers, and hockey rinks. Do they really help bring people to your city? Residents shell out million...
Episode 251- The Student Has Become The Experiment
Community Solutions Podcast - May 24, 2022 04:27 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Our public education system is in shambles. Most people would go find another solution, but they have worked hand in hand with government to shut out every other option. So while there are other types of schools, the rewards to attend public schools make the hurdles to t...
Episode 250- Simon Says
Community Solutions Podcast - May 13, 2022 04:25 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- I know that we'd like to think that our local elected officials are geniuses that know exactly what to do to move your city into the future. What if I told you, however, that these ideas actually come from groups like the League of MN Cities, The National League of Citi...
Episode 249- They Get You Coming And Going
Community Solutions Podcast - May 02, 2022 04:23 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- How do you know if your city is being responsible with it's finances? There are so many different ways for a city to raise money: property taxes, fees, municipal bonds, municipal businesses, fines, special assessments, etc. They spend money for capital costs and operati...
Episode 248- Who Makes The Decision?
Community Solutions Podcast - April 20, 2022 04:06 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Most of us believe that cities, counties, and towns should be able to self-determine, but there are a lot of state statutes that put limits on what these governments are willing to do. Some Minnesota cities choose to be statutory cities that are heavily determined by the...
Episode 247- Here Come The Blackouts
Community Solutions Podcast - April 10, 2022 03:22 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Governor Walz wants Minnesota to be 100% carbon-free by the year 2040. It doesn't matter how many solar and wind farms you build, the technology is just not there to sustain our energy supply. Xcel Energy is claiming that it will close it's coal-fired power plant in Bec...
Episode 246- 60 to 0 in 20 Seconds Flat
Community Solutions Podcast - March 24, 2022 03:20 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Just when you think that we've talked about the stupidest thing on the face of the planet, we blow even our own expectations. I-94 is going to need some major repairs to bring it into the future, but Our Streets Minneapolis and MNDOT have a great idea. We need to rip out...
Episode 245- The New Public Safety
Community Solutions Podcast - March 17, 2022 04:25 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn- The MN State Legislature is moving on a new public safety bill. Governor Walz and Lieutenant Governor Flanagan are on tour around the state to tout their new bill; The Plan to Protect Minnesotans Health And Safety. It includes the following ideas: investing in community orga...
Episode 244- Snake Oil Salesmen
Community Solutions Podcast - March 10, 2022 06:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Our public schools have become evangelists for the equity doctrine. It's not good enough to have equal opportunities, because you have to have equal outcomes. Our school districts are spending tens and hundreds of thousands of your tax dollars on hiring Equity Consultant...
Episode 243- Railing Against Incompetence
Community Solutions Podcast - February 22, 2022 05:35 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Southwest Light Rail is back in the news. This is a project that just will not die. It's way over time and over budget, but that doesn't stop our unaccountable Met Council from pushing it forward. $2.7 billion is the new projected cost for the project, and there is no con...
Episode 242- Settling The Score
Community Solutions Podcast - February 15, 2022 05:42 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Today, we bring friend of the show, John Augustine, on the podcast from the Legislative Evaluation Assembly of Minnesota. He goes over their 2021 Legislative Report, which highlights a number of bills and ratings of some legislators in holding to true conservative princi...
Episode 241- The Price Of Free Speech
Community Solutions Podcast - February 11, 2022 02:09 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- You'd have to be out in the middle of nowhere recently, to not hear about the left's attack on Joe Rogan after having the creator of the MRNA technology on his popular podcast. The BBC started the "Trusted News Initiative", that is supposed to fight misinformation. It st...
Episode 240- Getting Away With Murder
Community Solutions Podcast - February 05, 2022 04:17 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- It's officially an election year, and one of the most overlooked elections on the ballot is the county attorney. As we've seen, this is completely unacceptable, because these prosecutors are deciding to let criminals go free before a day of justice ever happens in court....
Episode 239- Government Overflows Its Banks
Community Solutions Podcast - January 28, 2022 02:24 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- You know how we say that regional government has it's tentacles everywhere? Enter the Central Mississippi Regional Planning Partnership. Everyone thinks about the Metropolitan Council in the Twin Cities, but most of the state is under regional government through the Minn...
Episode 238- Like An Umbrella With A Hole In It
Community Solutions Podcast - January 18, 2022 05:50 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- It was only a matter of time, but Minneapolis and St Paul have reinstituted a mask mandate. This has nothing to do with science, but is strictly political. The Mayo Clinic has stopped short of saying that cloth masks do little, and only by having an N95 or KN95 mask do y...
Episode 237- Drive Fast And Take Chances
Community Solutions Podcast - January 07, 2022 06:02 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- I know that y'all have been waiting for our take on the recent drunk driving arrest of Hennepin County Sheriff, David "Hutch" Hutchinson. It's strange that we've heard next to nothing about this. He pled guilty to a minor misdemeanor charge, and all the other charges mys...
Episode 236- There's Plenty To Go Around
Community Solutions Podcast - December 23, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- This year, the state of Minnesota is boasting a $7.7 Billion surplus. That's our money... I mean it's really our money, as we've overpaid our taxes, and this is what's left after everything has been paid. Of course that answer is clear, they're going to send it back, ri...
Episode 235- Brooklyn Bridge Is Burning Down
Community Solutions Podcast - December 17, 2021 04:29 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- We're well aware of the government push to co-opt and brainwash our children. Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center got together to form a shared powers agreement called The Brooklyn Bridge Alliance for Youth. The say their mission is to engage the youth... Their board is ma...
Episode 234-Tone Deaf And Dumb
Community Solutions Podcast - December 08, 2021 05:41 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Last November, it was made pretty clear. Voters are very much against getting rid of (or defunding) the police. That doesn't stop the radical fringe from trying to move forward. Brooklyn Center is one such city. They just tried to pass a measure to give the City Manager ...
Episode 233-A Bridge Too Far
Community Solutions Podcast - November 27, 2021 03:52 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Recently, House Democrats (and nine Republicans) passed Biden's infrastructure bill. It is rumored to have voter support, but no one really knows what's in it. For Instance, within three years time, all new cars will have DWI breathalyzer equipment (guilty before proven ...
Episode 232- Cheer Up, Buttercup
Community Solutions Podcast - November 16, 2021 04:18 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Usually our odd-year elections are met with a collective yawn... but not so this year. We know that next to no one votes, so it becomes easy for the activists to motivate their base to get out there and vote. Even in Minneapolis (which has been running to the left at a f...
Episode 231- Shut The Front Door
Community Solutions Podcast - November 01, 2021 05:12 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- All over this country, we are seeing a movement rise up; angry parents are speaking out at school board meetings. Petitioning our government is a tradition that is as old as America itself. It was deemed so important to freedom, that it was recognized as a God-given rig...
Episode 230- Poison To Our Local Economies
Community Solutions Podcast - October 25, 2021 04:26 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Today we tackle the "conspiracy theory" called The Great Reset, and the brand new Executive Order by the Biden administration. On Friday afternoon, while no one was paying attention, President Biden signed Executive Order 14030, The U.S. Climate Related Financial Risk- A...
Episode 229- Odd Behavior
Community Solutions Podcast - October 19, 2021 05:18 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- It's election season! Of course that doesn't mean much in an odd year, but whatever. There's one reason to have odd year elections; to control the outcome. A small portion of the city votes, so the activists control the turnout. It's important for you to see what these c...
Episode 228- Failing To Thrive
Community Solutions Podcast - October 11, 2021 03:29 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- The Metropolitan Council keeps pushing metro cities around, incorrectly projecting growth and trying to make cities build high density housing and transit systems in the middle of a changing model. The Thrive MSP 2040 plan not only forced metro cities into unwanted devel...
Episode 227- Referendumb or Referendumber
Community Solutions Podcast - October 04, 2021 05:31 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- It's that time once again for school boards to come to the taxpayers of their districts with their hand out and asking for money. School funding is so complicated (and budgets so not transparent), that it makes it difficult to follow the money. All they need to do is say...
Episode 226- All That Glitters Ain't Golden
Community Solutions Podcast - September 26, 2021 04:10 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Some of our cities are running into a huge problem. They are steadily moving left. Even in cities where we see strong Democrat majorities, those moderate Dems are being replaced with radical Dems. One huge issue is odd year elections. Only a fraction of voters show up fo...
Episode 225- And The Union Becomes The Teacher
Community Solutions Podcast - September 21, 2021 04:24 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Any of us with children have watched as our teachers, seemingly, have more and more of these staff development days in the school calendar. What are they learning? When the teachers take classes on these development days or over MEA weekend, it would be nice to know what...
Episode 224- Handpicked, Hand Selected
Community Solutions Podcast - September 13, 2021 02:40 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Robbinsdale Public Schools has a vacancy on it's school board, and guess what? They are going to have an appointment! Providing for the people to select their own is government is one of the most basic and fundamental functions of government. Instead, they are appointing...
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