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Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney’s Transparent Tale

January 24, 2019Marcus LarsonLeave a Comment on Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney’s Transparent Tale

How can any taxpayer feel confident that certain elected official and appointed board members don’t have a financial interest in the decisions and contracts they are approving?

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Fargo Moorhead Metro Debt Spiral Is This How the Diversion Ends

December 1, 2018April 8, 2019Marcus Larson2 Comments on Fargo Moorhead Metro Debt Spiral Is This How the Diversion Ends

So how does inventing a higher property value, out of thin air, which allows the city and county to net more tax revenue, without raising the mill, not get viewed as leaning hard on taxpayers?

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Oxbow ND Boondoggle “an” Elaborate Taxpayer Shakedown

May 26, 2018May 26, 2018Marcus LarsonLeave a Comment on Oxbow ND Boondoggle “an” Elaborate Taxpayer Shakedown

Was it all a bluff to see if Fargo would back away from the FMDA’s Class 1 High Hazard Dam, while secretly crossing fingers in hopes of a taxpayer funded windfall?

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Looming Tax Assessments Causing Headaches for Fargo and Cass County Residents

May 27, 2017May 28, 2017Marcus Larson3 Comments on Looming Tax Assessments Causing Headaches for Fargo and Cass County Residents

Even the devil would sleep with one eye open around these guys.

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FEMA Flood Insurance, Fargo, Cass and the USACE

May 20, 2016May 20, 2016Marcus Larson2 Comments on FEMA Flood Insurance, Fargo, Cass and the USACE

How can homes that were surrounded by flood waters in 1997 and 2009 be considered new impacts if project alignment is moved north?

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Case Civil No. 13-2262 (D322) | US District Court, District of Minnesota

May 17, 2016May 19, 2016adminLeave a Comment on Case Civil No. 13-2262 (D322) | US District Court, District of Minnesota

Eric Dodds, AE2S: “…it is clear that at least some of the property owners will not agree to sell voluntarily, and those properties will need to be acquired through eminent domain…”

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FM Diversion Damage Control Raises More Questions

December 23, 2015December 23, 2015Marcus Larson2 Comments on FM Diversion Damage Control Raises More Questions

Does Zavoral’s wealth of experience undermine or subvert Fargo’s ability to keep engineering and project management hands out of taxpayers pockets? What doors, access or influence does Zavoral provide AE2S beyond that of any other employee?

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Fargo Cass Diversion Authority “Den of Thieves”

March 21, 2015March 22, 2015Marcus Larson1 Comment on Fargo Cass Diversion Authority “Den of Thieves”

Curiously, the architects of the diversion tax assessment failed to address how governmental votes will pay their $483 share. This is also clear representation of the corruption and lack of moral ethics akin the architects of the tax assessment and overall schemes nebulous to the Fargo Dam and FM Diversion project.

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Fargo Leaders at Fault for Flood Insurance Scandal

December 19, 2014September 5, 2017Marcus LarsonLeave a Comment on Fargo Leaders at Fault for Flood Insurance Scandal

Fargo, Cass county and the Diversion Authority are gambling dangerously with the financial futures of residents by pitting FEMA flood levels and insurance requirements against the Fargo Dam and FM Diversion, while they manipulate the threat of tax assessments to coerce support for the proposed project.

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Living in Neverland, Fargo “Style”

September 29, 2013September 30, 2013Marcus LarsonLeave a Comment on Living in Neverland, Fargo “Style”

When political leaders say “won’t” it usually means “will” and “never” is usually code for “guaranteed to”…

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Diversion Costs

As of: 2/28/2025

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$1,249,360,243.72

Liquidated
$1,190,008,922.71

Unpaid Encumbrance
$59,351,321.01

Spending Over Past 12 Months
$65,810,022.41

Spending Over Past 24 Months
$185,817,707.70

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