Let me say at the outset that I simply do not want a new stadium. Anywhere in Minnesota. Frankly, I don't even think that a new stadium built with private money will help. Period.
The problem is that the Twins are located in a state that has a high degree of egalitarian principles. That means
Drugs, race, police relations, economics and an incident magnify a volatile, complex
mix of issues in the Jordan neighborhood
Curt Brown
Star Tribune
Published Sep 1, 2002 TENS01
A neighborhood garden bursting with
sunflowers and pride sits side by
side with the beige stucco bungalow
As a woman critic of the system I have just got to reply to this (even though
I already have addressed this issue - it seems my post didn't take). I just
loved Trainor's characterization of having to fight the system like a wounded
lion to get an adequate education for one's kids. At Lake
Linda Mann writes:
At Lake Harriet, Lynne's
model school (a perfect model of segregation along class and racial
lines) no
amount fighting was enough for us - we had to give up. I was joking
the other
day that since we put our son in a parochial school, my parental
involvement was a fraction
I'm also told Lake Harriet is a magnet for disabled kids. That costs
serious money - money the feds aren't sending, and money that private
schools can choose not to spend.
The federal government has not been doing its job on this matter but it is just the
tip of iceberg when it comes to the
The question you seem to anwser is that the schools
are now designed for social engineering.My feeling is
that schools are only for education which in the end
is up to the parents to control not the government.
The private schools do offer a better education which
is what parents care about. The
Community healing
Even before last week's violence, the Jordan Livability Committee had scheduled a
community meeting to continue discussing strategies for getting illegal drugs out of
the neighborhood.
When: 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, September 5th, 2002.
Where: Unity House, 2507 Fremont
I don't think what happened friday can be considered as baseball getting their
house in order, we'll still be threatened with relocation unless we build a
stadium. Is anyone aware of our financial house in Minneapolis and the state in
general. We can't seem to do the basics, (hello, Mayor Rybak,
Bill Cooley writes:
It is disappointing that the Issues List
discussion of these important events has mostly
devolved into a back-and-forth about pitbulls.
When neighbors contend that the animal in
question was well-trained, leashed, and had
never bitten anyone
Has anyone anywhere been ever
David Brauer writes:
The question you seem to anwser is that the
schools are now designed for social
engineering.My feeling is that schools are only
for education which in the end
is up to the parents to control not the
government. The private schools do offer a better
education which is
Jim Mork writes:
David Brauer writes:
The question you seem to anwser is that the
schools are now designed for social
engineering.My feeling is that schools are only
for education which in the end
is up to the parents to control not the
government. The private schools do offer a better
David Brauer says he is a New Parent in the school system. If he has a
child with any real education needs, like marginal dyslexia, then he will
either become a social activist willing to sacrifice a child on the alter of
PC public education, or he will have to fight like a lion and suffer the
I would make a further distinction between private schools and parochial
schools. Not everyone would want their kids in parochial schools with
their high religious content (Catholic, Lutheran, Jewish, etc.) and not
all of them are great learning institutions. Growing up in Catholic
schools it
Michael Atherton sure has my School Board vote.
And because of the anti-minority system (at-large, four votes for four seats) system
of voting we use, I will probably and regretably bullet ballot by voting for him
alone.
But that seems to be the only way to avoid putting a weaker (but
I agree, Robert--I know so many others do, too.
- Original Message -
From: Many Crows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Dean Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Baseball
I don't think what happened friday can be considered
Many members have been forgetting lately. List rules require real name
signature (first last) and neighborhood, or city if you live outside
Minneapolis.
Don't forget! Repeated failures to sign can bring warnings and
expulsions.
David Brauer
List manager
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On September 15th from 8:AM till 2:PM there will be a fundraiser to support
the opening of our community owned food co-op in NE MPLS. It will be at the
Polaski Auditorium at 22nd Ave and 5th St. in lovley lower NE MPLS.
SO MARK YOUR CALENDAR AND SAVE THE DATE!
Come and dine on a lovely
Jay -
I've had little personal experience with the police in Minneapolis. But I
can tell you that using Chicago cops as a good example won't fly. In my
younger years I've had run-ins with Chicago cops, and I've talked to others
who have also had the same experience. Chicago cops are probably
I wish you guys wouldn't be so abrasive. I agree that Brian Rice is pretty
thin-skinned. I don't understand how's he's survived in the world of public
policy so long. But he was the only one who was giving detailed rebuttals
to the attacks on the Park Board's acquisition of their new building.
David, I am not signed up with the Minneapolis list at home. Would you
please post this to the list. Thanks. Bill Dooley
Sid Hartman said on his Sunday morning WCCO radio show regarding the
Brandon Hall homicide that one reason a new downtown baseball stadium
should be built is so that downtown
Well, I can't reply to all the points made in this thread so I'll try and
stick to the points I was originally concerned with. The students at my son's
parochial school fit the profile of the students the public schools refuse to
educate mostly low income, Black and Latino. Everyone is offered
--- Alan Shilepsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If DFLers really cared about (proportionally)
representing everyone's perspective in School Board
decisions they would withhold their votes from one
or two DFL-slated candidates that they weren't so
enthusiastic about.
Democracy means not having
loki anderson wrote:
Where Alan ever got the idea that any political party,
not just the DFL, is interested in intentionally
losing any seat simply so that a different party, many
of whom have very different ideas on governance
issues, can have representation is hard to fathom.
When I started my campaign for Minneapolis school board a number of
people told me I was crazy, that the educational establishment and
the DFL would destroy me. But, for many years I have lived by a basic
principle: that if you speak the truth long enough and to enough people
you can change
I try to stay put of these school issues, but this was one I couldn't pass
up.
My experience at Annunciation Catholic School (K-8) as a parent and School
Board member is vastly different than that described below. Is there
religious instruction? Yes, but far from high religious content. In
In the Sunday Strib is an article about a Minnesota dude who may be the next big name
in professional wrestling. He makes a statement that he knows he is in the
entertainment business.
With all this talk about stadiums, and arenas, do we realize that baseball, football,
etc. are forums for
Michael Atherton writes:
When I started my campaign for Minneapolis school board a number of
people told me I was crazy, that the educational establishment and
the DFL would destroy me.
There were obviously enough voters who broke away from the DFL mold to elect
Denny Schapiro (who ran as an
Jim Graham wrote:
If he has a child with any real education needs,
like marginal dyslexia, then he will
either become a social activist willing to
sacrifice a child on the alter of
PC public education, or he will have to fight
like a lion and suffer the same frustrations that
Linda Mann speaks
Perhaps no movie moguls have gone to the state with their hands out, but
last time I checked, Block E was still supposed to be including a movie
theatre and that got how big of a subsidy from Minneapolis?
I'll admit that some of Carl Pohlad's and Red McCombs' tactics over the
years have made me
Michael Atherton writes:
For instance, it's interesting that the two
candidates who ...are not quite up to the task
of being good school board members, are the two
of us best able to accurately cite educational
research to support our positions
Michael: (1) I have yet to see the research
that
First I apologize for not signing my name. Mr Bauer is
correct about the statement on social engineering
being mine.I will do my best never to let this happen
again!
Second, I do not wish to condemn the many hard working
teachers and staff of the Mpls public schools,rather
it is the
Michael Atherton was rightly offended by the StarTribune as he highlights
below:
What is surprising is the caustic nature of their dismissal. While it is
technically accurate to describe me as a 52-year-old graduate student, the
phrase
seems to reflect a certain amount of implicit age
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