The subject line on this post is taken from some apt
graffitti on a bus shelter ad paid for by the
Minneapolis Public Police Department. The ad features
four men of color and tells the viewer if they want to
know what a bait car is just ask one of the four guys
pictured. These four individuals
It will shock few of us: lower-priced Minneapolis neighborhoods saw big
jumps in average home-sale price...entry-level now $110,000?
http://www.startribune.com/stories/417/1136278.html
David Brauer
List manager
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Bonham states:
I would not oppose building new stadium(s) if they REALLY were set up so
that no public financing was used. But I have not seen such a plan
yet. All the plans proposed hide subsidies from the public somewhere
inside them.
The whole public financing thread reaches a more morose
My late grandmother spent the last two years of her life living in an
apartment on the West Bank, with windows facing west towards the big
towers. She lived alone, but the crows kept her company. They came in
droves, and filled the trees of her neighborhood, fascinating her. She
always reminded
Conor Donnelly wrote:
Has anyone else noticed this kind of behavior by crows in the city? Are
they up to something we should know about? Who has been studying their
I saw a TV show recently on intelligent species on TLC I think, and
crows were known to have behavior of being aware that one
I believe the Seward neighborhood used NRP funds to commission a community
play. The Minneapolis crows were significant characters.
Crows are often associated with death. A group of crows is called a Murder.
In some cultures crows carry the souls of the dead. I know the hair stands
up on the
A few tugs at the crow thread:
1. A Ukranian man who lived on the Marcy-Holmes block where I grew up was
deathly afraid of two things: crows and city housing inspectors. He gardened
all the time but whenever crows came around would go inside, where he kept
the blinds pulled against the prying
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A really interesting web site is crows.net They are looking for
observations of behavior for research. By the way, anyone know where the
saying I'll make you eat crow came from? Seems to be relevant to comments
sometimes made on the Forum.
Richard Anderson
Loring Park
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Several hundred crows settled into trees between James and Irving, South
of Douglas, last Saturday. They arrived from the west and departed to
the east. Is this a slow news day or what?
Clark Griffith, Seventh Ward
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Last spring I witnessed two crows savagely attacking a live robin on the
ground. This was in the front yard of a home on Lyndale Avenue. We've all
seen crows feasting on roadkill and other carrion, but I had never seen them
killing a live bird. I know it's possible that the robin was injured
Clark,
Several hundred is a slow news day. Several thousand is something else.
Richard Anderson
Loring Park
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Several million and we'd have to declare a Crow Emergency.
JHarmon
Cleveland
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:25:14 -0800
Clark,
Several hundred is a slow news day. Several
I want to correct some mis-information that appeared in a recent posting. The
outside investigator the City Attorney retained (Joe Duffy)has not had his
hands tied in any way. His territory has NOT been circumscribed to just
the Inspections/License Department as the writer stated.
To the
I have a great book on crows and ravens called appropriately The American Crow and
the Common Raven by Lawrence Kilham. I got my copy at the U
of M Bell Museum book store. I don't remember seeing many crows in Mpls. in the 60s.
It seems word is out on the benefits of city living.
Years ago
This is kinda off-topic, but the subject of Minneapolis Crows has me cracking
(or perhaps cawing) up, because I'm part of a writer's group named Garden
Crow Poetry Group, which meets twice a month.
We're always trying to get fresh feathers - uh, writers - involved. E-mail
me directly if
I was recently reading, Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall, a good
autobiography.
She thought the chimpanzees were a rather peaceful species until they
exhibited the same traits as humans for violence. She tells of how two
groups actually made war with each other for four years. So I'm not
surprised
I agree with people
who don't wantfunding out of general revenues of the State or additional
sales taxto fundstadiums. I just don't believe that is
necessary.Any stadium should be built,owned and
managed by the Met Sports Commission. In budget process, the Commission should gather data on
There has been a lot of revitalization on Lake Street. Many life-long
residents are happy to see the changes that have occurred in the past four to
five years. What some people do not like is the type of businesses that have
moved onto Lake Street and the communities or cultures that they
The list manager caw, caw, caws that if you post on crows, restrict
yourselves to their Minneapolis manifestations. Non-Minneapolis stuff
tests the patience of some list members, who have tolerated my warnings
against off-topic posts on their favorite subjects.
Your bird-brained nag,
David
Two weeks ago I left my night class at MCTC to walk to the bus stop at Nicollet, via
Loring Green. I skirted Loring Park and looked up to see crows--hundreds of
crows--sitting as silent as can be in the very tops of the trees in the Park. They
looked like pepper. I felt like Tippy (Hedren).
While jogging around Lake Nokomis, saw an idyllic scene of a mother duck
escorting her flock of ducklings from a grassy knoll to the lake.
Suddenly a crow flew down and mobbed the ducks with its wings.
In the confusion, the ducklings scattered.
The crow then grabbed one of the ducklings by the
Intesting - I have the very opposite reaction - I find their presence refreshing and
strangly comforting. Someone recently told me that crows are fairly new to urban
environments, but maybe 5 - 7 years ago started moving in. Anyone know anything about
that concept?
Liz Greenbaum
Longfellow
My apologies to members for some wrong info. HF2593 does not effect park
district elections...only city council. Also we will amend the bill to
set a threshold for differences to trigger the earlier elections and
exempt any city that will have half their members elected in 03 because
of
I wish I had a crow story other than teaching my 2-year-old how to caw, but I don't.
Actually, a good friend made up a very funny story about Crowsama Bin Laden and his
flock of followers, but that's, well, another story.
In any event, came across a letter from the head of the
List members Britt Robson (writer) and Craig Miller (landlord) are involved in
yesterday's City Pages article about the Twin Cities' vacancy rate:
http://www.citypages.com/databank/23/1104/article10106.asp
The story reaffirms what I thought and what I see: small unit vacancies opening up,
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