The Eastside Pioneers Neighborhood Association (ESPNA) is very concerned, like most of Rochester, about the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern (DME) and Canadian Pacific (CP) railroad’s ever increasing profile within our community. We are alarmed by the speed of these huge trains in such a densely populated area. We need to act now, before November 1, in order to have any impact at all on the transportation issue that is now before us. Since the Canadian Pacific (CP) railroad acquired the…

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The city of Rochester has several post secondary educational institutions providing services to our community. But is the educational curriculum provided diverse enough to attract a wide range of students? Hopefully Rochester is not losing talented post secondary students, an essential ingredient to our future, because we are only providing limited course curriculum and degree programs. Rochester is the third largest city in Minnesota, we need a fully accredited four year university that provides a wide array of courses in…

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