Chart of the Day: Minneapolis City Budget

• August 27, 2014

This is a great new bit of data journalism from the Star Tribune you can explore… the city budget in square-chart form.

mpls budget chart

Check out the size of the Public Works budget. Anyone have any good ideas on how to save taxpayers some money?

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Bill Lindeke

About Bill Lindeke

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Bill Lindeke has writing blogging about sidewalks and cities since 2005, ever since he read Jane Jacobs. He is a lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Minnesota Geography Department, the Cityscape columnist at Minnpost, and has written multiple books on local urban history. He was born in Minneapolis, but has spent most of his time in St Paul. Check out Twitter @BillLindeke or on Facebook.