City of MN - Bloomington

08/21/2026

AI helped me with the first sentence and 2 in between. Who says we at Bloomington aren't poets.

CRUMMY TOWN ON THE MISSISSIPPI

Minneapolis sits by the river’s gray edges,
Where the people are jumping from the bridges ledges.

Potholes and litter and tents can be seen,
While the addicts are running to get their next fein.

The winters are brutal, the summers get thick,
With humidity, mosquitoes, and traffic that sticks.

Downtown’s half-empty, the glass towers gleam,
There's boarded-up storefronts and broken-down dreams.

The talk of “progress” and “equity” is a shame,
Businesses are failing, and leaders are to blame.

The crime is so high, and they wonder why,
We all know it's because leaders turn the blind eye.

Lake of the Isles still looks pretty at dusk,
But the city’s got issues it never can hush.

Taxes that climb, and services that lag,
A place that once thrived now just feels like a drag. But what can you expect when you voted for a dancing fag.

The fraud is ongoing and never ending,
With that being said, we know which way their asses are bending.

Carjackings still happen and cars get damaged,
All from a city that is severally mismanaged.

So here’s to Minneapolis, cold and unkind,
A city that’s crumbling, one street at a time.

Minneapolis is currently facing a budget shortfall of approximately $60 million. To rectify that, Mayor Jacob Frey has proposed a dramatic 11.3% increase in the city’s property tax levy and has recommended that Minneapolis cut 100 city jobs.

However, the city is currently partnering with the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis to find the next “Minneapolis Poet Laureate.” That person will be paid $16,000 by the city.

According to the Loft Literary Center, the next Minneapolis Poet Laureate will be selected by a panel of representatives from the city and the Loft Literary Center. Interested parties can apply for the position now through Oct. 7.

The poet laureate will serve from Jan. 1, 2027 through the end of 2028 and receive an honorarium totaling $16,000 across those two years.

08/15/2026

Rumor has it there is some chatter, and a little something something going at the city hall.

If you dont know, then let us help you clue in a little bit. And no, we're not talking about the Nine Mile Creek corridor meeting. We are talking about proper decision making.

Citizens are a little concerned whether this will have an affect on all those involved in city business, and they should be very concerned. This situation is something that could have an impact on whether or not competent decisions can be made.

What are all your thoughts?

08/14/2026

Well, look at this little nugget. Maybe this explains alot about deaf ears and turning the other way.

Original source...
https://x.com/i/status/1690836468674277378

08/12/2026

Was Busse really the right choice for mayor?

Remember in 2019 when Busse ran for mayor? He was asked what are the two most important policy issues that he wishes to address as mayor.

He said his A1 priority is, "to continue to be thoughtful and careful stewards of tax dollars". Um, how is that working out!?

2nd priority he said, "to revitalize our neighborhoods and jump start our neighborhood commercial nodes".
I guess that means more housing and alot less businesses, for the rezoning debacle.

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Video of Kulka in comments...
Other candidate Ryan Kulka said he would focus on high taxes, because we can't spend so much and not expect an impact 2 to 3 tears down the road, which several council members pointed that out. Remember that was the year where the council wanted an 11% levy, but were able to pull some "budgeting tricks" to reduce it down to a 6% levy.

Kulka also said the city needs to be supporters of small businesses and large businesses. Several businesses have had policies, fees and codes pressed on them costing the owners 100's of thousands of dollar causing them to almost shut down. Along with other businesses not being able to open. One was a large international company that bailed out, after going back and forth with the city for 6-7 years.

Busse also mentioned housing going up across from Toro, on the city owned land. Thank god that hasn't started yet.

08/12/2026

🤡🤡 Here's a roast of the City Council over the Dar Al Farooq mosque CUP saga:

Bloomington City Council: the gold-medalists of selective blindness. They handed Dar Al Farooq a conditional use permit with nice, clear limits on occupancy, hours, parking, and intensity of use… then watched those conditions evaporate faster than Minnesota Nice in a heated public comment session. Neighbors pointed out the over-parking, late-night activity, park overload, and “wait, this is way bigger than what was promised” reality, and the council’s response was basically “the fire code says 1,900, so good luck with your residential streets.”

They treated the CUP like a suggestion box instead of a contract. Assurances given during the approval process? Optional. Enforcement when residents filed petitions and documented the mismatches? Suddenly the city attorney’s advice becomes sacred scripture and the original conditions become “moot.” Meanwhile, a small non-denominational church trying to get a similar permit in an industrial zone around the same era got the cold shoulder. Consistency is overrated when one side has better optics.

The result: a textbook case of land-use governance that looks less like neutral zoning and more like “we approved it, the neighbors can cope, and anyone still complaining is the problem.” Bloomington didn’t just give the permit—they gave the neighborhood a master class in how conditional use permits become unconditional once the right applicants are involved.

Peak suburban governance: protect the process on paper, abandon it in practice, then act shocked when residents notice.

08/08/2026

$25 to anyone who shows up at a Bloomington meeting and does this (must be recorded). 😂😂

Best and most truthful comment.....

Dude had a point when he said “The skills I gained in elementary school that prepared me for my future”. 🙌🏼

08/07/2026

I guess it's time for another city roast. This time it goes to the absolute legends at Bloomington Engineering and Hennepin County Design.

Amy Marohn and Dan McCormick looked at France Avenue—a perfectly functional four-lane county road that people actually use to get to work, school, and home without having a spiritual crisis—and thought, “You know what this needs? A personality disorder.” So they restriped it from four lanes down to three like they were doing the asphalt a favor. One through lane each way and a center turn lane that will spend the rest of its life as a permanent left-turn holding cell for people who just wanted to make a simple turn without becoming a traffic cone.

These two looked at school buses, rush-hour traffic, and neighborhood access and said, “What if we made every single one of those things worse… on purpose?” Peak Minnesota municipal energy: solve a problem that wasn’t the problem by creating three new ones and then congratulate yourselves for “calming” traffic. Calming. Like the road was having a panic attack and needed a weighted blanket made of brake lights.

Nothing says “we really listened to the community” like a notice that arrives five minutes before the paint dries, followed by the soft, distant sound of every driver on the side streets inventing new cut-through routes through residential neighborhoods. The kids at the school get to enjoy the educational experience of watching parents invent creative new swear words while idling in a single lane that used to be two. Emergency vehicles get the fun new challenge of “which of these three options is least terrible?” And the center lane? That beautiful, sacred center lane will soon be the municipal equivalent of a black hole—matter goes in, nothing useful comes out.

This isn’t traffic engineering. This is performance art for people who think congestion is a character-building exercise. They took a road that worked and turned it into a slow-motion argument with paint. Somewhere a spreadsheet is very proud of itself. Somewhere a traffic model is high-fiving a PowerPoint. And somewhere on France Avenue a person who just wanted to get home is realizing they now have enough time to reconsider every life choice that led them to live near this masterpiece.

These are the same people who will later act shocked when traffic spills onto residential streets, then commission another study to figure out why the residential streets are suddenly full of angry drivers.

Congratulations to everyone who signed off on this. You’ve taken a functional road and turned it into a daily reminder that local government can weaponize paint.
Absolute art.

08/07/2026

Well, look here, Bloomington has reduced a section of France Ave by Jefferson High School from a 4 lane to basically a two lane.

We got a bunch of 🤡🤡🤡 still running the show.

Project Overview This summer, changes are coming to France Avenue (CSAH County Road 17) to improve safety for people driving, walking, and biking—especially near the school. This project is already funded and scheduled by Hennepin County through a pavement maintenance

07/25/2026

Fraud comes in many forms....

In early 2024, several twin cities Mosques received $150,000 each (I believe organizations can apply every year) in Federal grants to beef up security, for the prevention of "terrorists attacks".

Remember 911 and the danger a certain organization is, and continue to be, to the USA? But, hey lets bring them here and now give them money for "security".

Yeah you can't make this sh*t up.

Dar Al Farooq was one of them to receiving money to beef up security. So if that's the case, then why would they allegedly not have cameras for the inside fighting, which led to an outside shooting? And what about the fire at the shed? And remember the little bombing that happened there? What about the hundreds of thousands of dollars that they received from a go fund me and their insurance company, yet the work was all done for free by a local woke contractor.

Article about their free money from the federal government to "protect them". 👇👇

https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/federal-grant-boosts-minnesota-mosque-security-after-attacks/