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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist: 07/2008
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist. This is the weblog of Joseph Goeke Frank. Saint Louis MO USA. Thursday, July 17, 2008. Whatever you think about the present and future state of (re)development in downtown St. Louis, it would help if the media and the general public - particularly suburban and ex-urban residents - would get the approximate location right! I recall some years back there was much consternation because Mayor Bosley's staff counted the jobs at Anheuser-Busch. It all started when Ted Sr. ...
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist: 01/2008
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist. This is the weblog of Joseph Goeke Frank. Saint Louis MO USA. Thursday, January 24, 2008. That was the message scrawled across two separate buildings at Tucker and Chouteau this morning. Somebody else (more important than me, perhaps) must have noticed it, because about 8 am today there was a NestlePurina PetCare security truck parked alongside Tucker with its lights flashing. I wonder what the message is here? Thursday, January 03, 2008. Committee office in Kenrick Plaza.
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist: 11/2007
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist. This is the weblog of Joseph Goeke Frank. Saint Louis MO USA. Tuesday, November 27, 2007. This Illegal Immigration Thing. This Illegal Immigration Thing. Back in September and October 2000, I went on "spring break" while an exchange student at the University of the Western Cape. Near Cape Town, South Africa. All of the group had student visas. In Chicago (even now, their Chicago branch office has no website of its own! Of course, once I figured out where the nearest Home...
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist: 09/2009
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist. This is the weblog of Joseph Goeke Frank. Saint Louis MO USA. Thursday, September 10, 2009. On the Value of Professional Conferences. So, I'm at yet another conference this week - the Governor's Conference on Economic Development. At least it's at the Hyatt Regency so I can walk there from the office. Likewise, I attended (and technically was on a planning committee for) the National Institute of Government Purchasing (NIGP) Forum. By that time, the nearest session (in C...
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist: 12/2007
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist. This is the weblog of Joseph Goeke Frank. Saint Louis MO USA. Monday, December 03, 2007. 3652 S Jefferson Ave. 3652 S Jefferson Ave. The University of Missouri Digital Library. Now hosts a number of very cool high-resolution scanned image databases, including Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. From prior to 1922. For example, that fire hydrant in front of my house? Yep, it was already there in 1909. Was once the location of a curiously named institution:. Random Talk on Urban ...
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist: 09/2008
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist. This is the weblog of Joseph Goeke Frank. Saint Louis MO USA. Tuesday, September 09, 2008. Thanks be to Tom Shrout for pointing out the last transit tax election was in 1997, not 1998. Most readers know that I'm a transit geek. Despite that - gasp! I've been driving to work for almost a year now. I can console myself for this treachery against transit, only because:. Since June, I've been carpooling, thanks in part to the handy-dandy RideFinders. I wasn't contributing mu...
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist: I am back, probably
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist. This is the weblog of Joseph Goeke Frank. Saint Louis MO USA. Thursday, September 03, 2009. I am back, probably. OK, so I know I've been non-blogging for too damned long. I finished my dissertation. This past April and graduated from WashU on May 15. So that represents my magnum opus. Of commentaries on St Louis politics, which occupied most of my 'free' time over the past two years or so. Of course, I hope my future does not hold the same fate as that one other guy.
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist: 05/2008
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist. This is the weblog of Joseph Goeke Frank. Saint Louis MO USA. Monday, May 05, 2008. Converter Box Coupons Finally Came! On March 4th, I ordered two coupons. From the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). For $40 each towards the purchase of two digital converter boxes to pick-up broadcast signals. In case you've been living under a rock (or just don't have a TV, in which case, you wouldn't care anyway), on February 17, 2009, all the full-power.
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist: 09/2007
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist. This is the weblog of Joseph Goeke Frank. Saint Louis MO USA. Tuesday, September 25, 2007. Tying Together Chouteau's Pond. Tying Together Chouteau's Pond. Yesterday morning I drove to work, and tried to figure out some route to enter downtown from the south instead of South Tucker. I admit it wasn't really that congested at 7:30 AM, but I just wanted to try it. The big obstacle is that NestlePurina PetCare has a massive complex in this area with a beautiful courtyard inc...
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist: Train Nut
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Ramblings by Joe Frank, urbanist. This is the weblog of Joseph Goeke Frank. Saint Louis MO USA. Tuesday, September 09, 2008. Thanks be to Tom Shrout for pointing out the last transit tax election was in 1997, not 1998. Most readers know that I'm a transit geek. Despite that - gasp! I've been driving to work for almost a year now. I can console myself for this treachery against transit, only because:. Since June, I've been carpooling, thanks in part to the handy-dandy RideFinders. I wasn't contributing mu...
