Minnesota has always been a state of big thinkers but in the 1970s state leaders had “a vision of massive proportions.” David Gillette, in Almanac at the Capitol, explores a futuristic plan for a domed experimental city to be developed in two northeastern Minnesota counties. For a building price of $10 billion dollars, Minnesota citizens would have had the opportunity to live in a domed city and travel by self-driven cars.
David visits the Legislative Reference Library to explore the grand plans for the city of the future. (A brief summary of the vast project is available here.)
Todd Lefko, a former member of the authority, explains the context for this "vision of massive proportions," as "Of course we could do it. We were Minnesotans. We could do anything."