In a message dated 2/10/03 10:26:12 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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Unbelievable. This is a confidence booster is it not, given the behavior
record of the past several years - and now the budget crunch. This is no
time to seek parity with other departments. Another
Along Franklin Avenue The
Neighborhood and NRP Did It One Building At a Time.Today's Minneapolis
StarTribune articles on Franklin Avenue Development should emphasize why NRP is
so important to Minneapolis. What started with a few hundred thousand
dollars to renovate the "Streetscape" and
Vicky wrote:
The handout that the City distributed at the Truth in Taxation hearing
eight weeks ago (see my 12/10/02 posts) showed $158,600,000 of revenue
coming from the State.
Last week, I read that the City is hoping to get $90 million for 2003.
Can anyone explain this discrepancy?
Dave Stephenson: Indians are facing
brutality from new 'soldiers in blue'
Dave Stephenson
Published Feb. 11, 2003
White men in blue uniforms have long
been the bane of Native America.
In the 19th century, U.S. cavalry
soldiers descended on American Indian
villages and perpetrated
DAVID BRAUER takes a stab at identifying the $158.6 million of money
coming from the State that appeared on the City's 2003 budget.
The $90 million is the city's share of Local Government Aid; I'm pretty
sure of that.
But the city also gets other state dollars. For example, the parks and
library
I regret the use of harsh language I employed in my post. Keith Reitman
NearNorth
In a message dated 2/11/03 4:13:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Received a complaint about this:
Don, you make the partisan political
pandering, and Dynafying,
It's time to face facts guys, and the music.
NO ONE IS GOING TO BAIL US OUT!
And why should they? Minneapolis spent a billion dollars of money we
didn't have on stuff we didn't need. It's that simple.
Here are our choices at this point:
1. Raise taxes until everyone moves out of town.
2.
Thanks for saying that Jim. I too felt that NRP was
not mentioned as the catalyst that generated all the
development along Franklin. I would go one step
further and say the article also did not give the
volunteers in Ventura Village and formerly Phillips
enough credit for the work.
Yesterday, I
Actually Jonathan, the post was exactly that, an attempt at counter spin
doctoring. I apologize if it seemed a little excessive in its heat. It
was my thought that a little extra heat applied in the correct direction
might throw the brakes on a plan to Centralize things. I believe there
will be
I have to comment on Vicky's suggestion that the city default on
it's bonds. I don't think that is at all necessary.
Yah, there is a severe budget problem, but solving it is the best
and most needed medicine for the city.
The past 25 years, as I have struggled to pay
Hello Andy:
It is an even larger percentage of the St. Paul and
Duluth budgets. I believe 16% for St. Paul and 19% for
Duluth, 12% Minneapolis.
Ken Bradley Corcoran Neighborhood
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Andy writes:
Thank yourselves for electing Pat Awada over Carol
Fellow list members:
With all the difficult and depressing news, I thought I'd suggest a visit to an excellent website for some fresh perspective on how Minneapolis might be transformed in the next few years to "be the change we want to see in the world."
EVworld often has very fine analysis of
James E. Jacobsen wrote:
Then you got the social services mania, people coming here from all
over the world because the hand outs are the best.
WM: People come here from other parts of the world because they had a
relative who came here first, maybe as a refugee, maybe as a student,
A couple of things struck me about Pat Awada's report. First was her
conclusion that the more money given to local governments the more they
spend which I file under Duh!.
I think she was trying to say that the spending is the result of the giving
as opposed to need. This may be, but is not
One has only to park at a convenient vantage point along I35, or I94 during rush-hour and watch the direction the traffic flows (in the morning and the evening) to determine whether or not the state auditors' assesment is "on target".
Mnneapolis (and St Paul), provide the lifeblood for majority
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From: Dyna Sluyter [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue Feb 11, 2003 9:35:01 AM US/Central
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Unneeded Air Cargo means Noisy Night Flights
Thanks Jan- and you're correct that there's no need for this new facility. UPS, the Postal
Most commercial jets are designed so that they are easily configured for either passengers or cargo. A good case in point - many of the NW Airlines jets you've all flown on probably at one point had the seats stripped out of them and were used to transport seafood from Alaska to destinations in
You can read an in-depth article on the proposed
air cargo center at:
www.twincities.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2003/02/10/story4.html
Dick Saunders
Diamond Lake
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An evening for insight
I'm afraid I'm far too ignorant about city financing,
defaulting and debt. So I ran Vicky's post by my council person,
Barret Lane and this is what he e-mailed me:
No. Intentional default is absolutely not an option. The
credit rating is not the only factor in play. At a minimum, we'd get
Dennis Plante, Jim McGuire and Terrell Brown have all made some excellent points today about Local Government Aid. (see snips below). Minneapolis is not an island.People come into the city all the time for a variety of reasons. They use city parks that are paid for bycity property taxes. They
Is the fiscal disparities act still in effect? If so, is Minneapolis
losing or gaining under the law?
Shawne FitzGerald
Powderhorn
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As I was aggressively schlepping some long-ripening garbage out to my curb
this evening (only missed the garbage crew by a day) I reflected on the fact
that, regardless of the benefits offered, I'd rather be someplace south
tonight, should I someday be homeless...I'd sure as heck choose
from c harmon, cleveland
In the 18 years I've been a technician and engineer in the aircraft
industry, the only quiet way to make money is with a repair station, that
can employ up to twenty times more people than any cargo operation at ANY
international airport.
When an aircraft flies in,
The first footnote on the first page says The OSA grouped three
current city services: general government, public safety, and streets
and highways together to form essential current services. All other
current services are called non-essential current services for the
purposes of this study. I'm
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