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Class action & privacy lawyer at Lockridge Grindal Nauen. Reproductive rights, debate access, & Mac Groveland St. Paul neighborhood volunteer. West Wing & Feminist T-Shirt Friday lover. she/hers
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I shall save my anger at a former MSP local lesbian pie shop until substantiated but much agree with your larger point.
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But was it Pie & Mighty.
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Update: it comes with wiener dog side eye.
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I am so so sad to hear this.
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And the Yarnery!
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When the BW3 went in on Snelling a million years ago the neighborhood page was all ladies complaining it wasn’t a yarn store. A YARN STORE, ON SNELLING NEXT TO THE LIQUOR STORE AND GAS STATION. 😂😂😂
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Fingers crossed my first one is ordered by then too! (The first one done by one of the associates in my office was a week ago and I feel like we should have a parade each time!) 🎉🦔🎈🎉🦔🎈
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SAME.
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Oh, I am so so so sorry.
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Here's my honest customer service question: what am I even supposed to do about this? I shop at Target all the time. Do I just accept that's how it goes now? Stop ordering from their website? There's no way to provide feedback & I don't need to return the items. Is this what shopping is now? 8/8
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The gift cards still didn't show up on 12/24, or 12/26. I started to think I should reach out again, but there was no other choice except the same terrible chat platform so I did not. Target finally shipped them on 12/27, and I received them on DECEMBER 30. Through the regular USPS mail! 7/8
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The online chat escalation also didn't help. It took half an hour to connect to a "manager" & then I was ghosted so that I would have had to start the entire chat over again to get a response. Plus, like I said, we had already passed the pre-holiday deadline I needed some of the gift cards for. 6/8
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The online chat experience was horrific. It took 4 different tries to get beyond a basic "all Christmas items are guaranteed by 12/24 so wait until then!" response & they had nothing beyond "wait some more and see." When I said that was an unsatisfactory resolution forcefully, I was escalated. 5/8
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It seemed obvious to me that someone at Target had put them somewhere for shipping and created a shipping label but then never mailed the package. But there was literally no way to communicate that to anyone. So I started an online chat, even though that seemed fairly pointless. 4/8
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BUT there was no way to talk to anyone - no phone #, & all the clickable buttons to "fix the situation" or "get help" were forms to start a return, which upon clicking just say gift cards aren't returnable. Which, okay, but also I didn't want to return them - I wanted them to arrive at my house! 3/8
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I took kids to a debate tournament that weekend, and on Monday 12/23 went to the Target website to try to fix the situation, since I still had no gift cards. The website tracking info STILL said Target had created the label 12/9 but not otherwise shipped them (and had said that since 12/9). 2/8
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Little kid dance is always and forever a true delight.
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No, it’s actually a different Mac Groveland Lutheran church, FWIW.
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What is the evidence for that in STP if it's not election outcomes? (It's not majority support in St. Paul; it's 75%+ support, not counting Hussein who was unopposed.) I'm serious - are fewer people voting? Is a MNGOP candidate quality issue skewing results? Is it just taxes or also other issues?
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Yeah, I do agree that being self reflective about the relationship between property taxes and services is always good, especially in a city with limits on other ways to raise revenue given inability to tax gov't/church/school land.
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And 64B (which is my district) is one of the most affluent areas, which would seem to cut against the notion that it's working class folks voting against the DFL.
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Is that true in St. Paul? I'm genuinely asking. Betty McCollum won with 67.25% in 2024; 67.6% in 2022. From looking at a map, looks like 64/65/66/67 are the districts with St. Paul house reps and the 2022/2024 results are nearly identical, with the widest margin being Pinto going from 82.6-80.1.
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The City Council's is to both hear the voices of individual homeowners and also to balance individual concerns with community priorities. My point was that you seem to be saying that one type is helpful (individual stories) but the other is less so (community activism), and I disagree there.
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But you aren't going to get personal stories from people who are indifferent or positive but not strongly on a personal level about property taxes because they won't attend the hearing and that is one value that neighbors, affiliated or not, can bring.
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That's not what I said. People telling personal stories of how taxes will affect them is one purpose of a public hearing; I'm glad there's a space for folks to be heard. Others telling stories about the value of the taxes and what they pay for is another purpose of a public hearing. Both are good.
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Isn't that in part because unaffiliated people don't show up to a public hearing to say "eh, it's fine" or "taxes are good"? Because that's my feeling on the 10% increase in my property taxes, and I trust the organized people to make policy arguments that align with the values of most in St. Paul.
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You know the "activists" you're talking about are also regular workers and neighbors, right? Christine lives down the block from me, and goes to the Lutheran church by Macalester. This isn't some hidden cabal, it's people trying to make the world better.
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Right? Christine Danielson lives down the block from me and is great, earnest, and heartfelt. These are our neighbors.