My Minnesota

There’s enough stupidity and related activity going on in the world so, today we’re going to be short and sweet and positive. As we hope you...

Here’s what’s supposed to be in this week’s community supported agriculture [CSA] share. It’s the last one in the summer series. (Yesterday ...

With apologies to Jonathan Swift and the genre of satire, today we offer a proposal that could exceed Zuck’s efforts to rule the metaverse....

I imagine, and hope, that most of you are familiar with this quotation from Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac : “There are some w...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! and a belated Happy St. Urho's Day ! The Star Tribune has an editorial today about Sobering news on aff...

Those of us who live "up North" recently have been the recipients of some visits and subsequent write-ups from folks whose blogs...

© harrington Welcome. Thanks for stopping by. I assume that you're in favor of clean air, clean water, open space, healthy foods a...

© harrington Where this (still uncompleted) subdivision sits today, sandhill cranes used to feed. I know because I used to see them on...

© harrington It's possible you may wonder what yesterday's post about mixed use development has to do with places like the one...

© harrington This view looks south toward the downtown of one of the first cities in My Minnesota. The building in the center (appeari...

© harrington Can you remember when the Foshay Tower was the tallest building in Minneapolis? Now it's almost like a mushroom in a ...

© harrington This morning I'll be participating in a meeting of the board of the US Green Building Council-Minnesota Chapter . One...

To continue on this Thanksgiving's week theme of gratitude, I'm grateful that, in 2008, my fellow Minnesotan's enacted the ...

© harrington Election day was damp, drizzling and/or snowy, depending on where you were in My Minnesota. The day after election day d...