OUR VIEW
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Our View: Give taxpayers a voice on city hall
The Cottage Grove City Council has sorely undervalued the importance of public input as it has charged ahead with plans for a multi-million dollar city hall on the edge of townAugust 26, 2010
Our View: There’s more than one way to fix a budget 
The latest projections say that Minnesota’s budget shortfall in the 2012-2013 biennium will be nearly $6 billion.
March 25, 2010
Our View: Thank the public for incinerator decision
At a time when a lot of the ills in American society are blamed on the apathy of the public we’re encouraged that south Washington County residents are bucking the trend
February 12, 2010
Our view — CG council: follow your own rules on turbine
In April, the Cottage Grove City Council made the city’s wind turbine requirements more stringent to prepare for the residents and businesses that would likely begin asking to place the alternative energy sources on their properties.
December 23, 2009
Our view: Focus on needs with excess money
If you received a $1,000 windfall at a time when you were doing well financially, you’d probably spend it a lot differently than if you got it at a time when you were struggling.
December 10, 2009
Our View: Room for compromise on drive-in
Albert Einstein said, “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
When it comes to the fate of the Cottage View Drive-In theater, we hope its owner and city leaders will take this advice to heart.
By Bulletin staff , November 25, 2009
Our view: Consider even-year school board elections and wards
There was a school board election last Tuesday, and very few people showed up for it — 6.3 percent of the district’s registered voters to be exact.
November 10, 2009
Our view: Not the time to cut housing help
County Commissioner Lisa Weik, who is arguing to cut taxpayer funding for the Washington County Housing and Redevelopment Authority, compared it to 4-H, saying both were non-essential services.
September 30, 2009
Our view: Continue conversation on police department co-op
With its longtime police chief retiring at the end of the year, and financial pressures mounting, Newport has a golden opportunity to rethink how it offers police services.
September 01, 2009
Our view: Pier should wait for better budget times
Newport Mayor Tim Geraghty has been fighting so doggedly to get a fishing pier erected quickly at the end of Sixth Street, we wouldn’t be surprised to catch him out there with a hammer and pile of wood one of these evenings building it himself.
June 19, 2009
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