We want Dislocate to be a presence in the community. The Twin Cities has an incredible writing community, and we want Dislocate to be a part of that.

The program makes cities as competitive for the development dollars as a greenfield community is. If you are trying to end suburban sprawl we really need to invest in these areas but make it easy as possible.

I've been doing this job (in different cities) for 25 years. This is only the third time in any community that I've seen anything this bad.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford

The cities and counties throughout the state have done a lot of things to bring funding to the table.

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination — through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.