Making do with the Dome [via MinnPost.com]

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“A hotdish mentality” is how the commission’s chairman Roy Terwilliger describes the approach. Terwilliger is a South Dakota native, a community banker and a former Republican legislator. So, he knows well the Midwestern mood when it comes to spending money: If leftovers can be salvaged in a casserole, so much the better.

As Garrison Keillor might say, we are a thrifty people not given to excess. So, updating the Dome sounds a lot better to the Minnesota ear than a whole new project.

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Ugh. Does Zygi realize the kind of HERO he would be if he just opened his checkbook and got this new stadium done?