Issue: Law Enforcement
To me, law enforcement is the exception that proves the rule (though what
the rule is I don't know)
Most laws are NOT enforced. Doesn't keep people from complaining who want
to complain about how Big Government oppresses them. But then you get the
complaints from the
T H E M I N N E A P O L I S O B S E R V E R
A Weekly Digest of All Things Minneapolitan
www.mplsobserver.com
Vol. 2, No. 47
July 14, 2003
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THIS WEEK IN THE OBSERVER:
* Group Working to Patch Cop-Indian Relations
* Venerable Community
It seems time for our city council to voice their outrage at the CDEP appointments coming from Mayor Rybak.
This is an insult to Minneapolis residents.
Recent history has shown that the majority of Minneapolis residents are sick of the quality of life and the money of Minneapolis being
In a message dated 7/14/2003 7:42:22 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It seems time for our city council to voice their outrage at the CDEP appointments coming from Mayor Rybak.
This is an insult to Minneapolis residents.
Recent history has shown that the majority of
Karen Collier writes, in response to Margaret Hastings:
I'm sorry, I don't get it. Why are you expecting the people recently
appointed will not be good for the City? Do you have some evidence of which
I am totally unaware? The fact that someone known by Lee Sheehy was
appointed should not be a
At the last DFL caucus for endorsing a candidate for Minneapolis mayor,
candidate Rybak had his supporters holding up TARGET signs when incumbant
SSB delivered her speech.
I wonder what kind of signs citizens can display if the current Mayor
should deliver a speech at the next DFL caucus.
Here
Mayor Rybak ignored the obvious conflict of interest
that appointing Mike Christiansen represents, and
cited some of the accomplishments of Mr. Christiansen
while he was part of Allina (before Allina
Enron-ed). It's interesting that RT has changed his
tone regarding conflicts associated with this
The following was published in Finance and Commerce,
http://www.finance-commerce.com/recent_articles/030711b.htm
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Minneapolis, take back your streets
By Ken Avidor and Jeff Carlson/Guest Columnists
July 11, 2003
If you let other people do it for you, they will do
it to you. Robert
Tom Welling wrote:
WizardMarks wrote:
Rybak is damn lucky to be able to draw Mike Christianson into his lair. Mike really knows his onions and he has hung out with us regular people in Central, Phillips--all four sections, Powderhorn and Corcoran enough to understand something about the culture
An interesting paragraph in a recent Seattle Times article regarding the famous
Seattle Elliott Bay Bookstore: Yesterday a survey of literacy in 64 cities confirmed
what Seattle bookworms have long suspected. It named Seattle as one of the country's
two most-literate cities, edged out for No. 1
WizardMarks wrote:
Rybak is damn lucky to be able to draw Mike Christianson into his lair. Mike really
knows his onions and he has hung out with us regular people in Central, Phillips--all
four sections, Powderhorn and Corcoran enough to understand something about the
culture of this area of
Those who believe in conspiracies involving old ties among CPED
appointees have overlooked the obvious one: CPED Director Lee Sheehy
wears bow ties. Mike Christenson showed up for his CPED appointment
announcement Friday wearing a bow tie. And Louis Smith, the mastermind
behind Smith Parker,
Bill Dooley wrote, An interesting paragraph in a recent Seattle
Times article regarding the famous Seattle Elliott Bay Bookstore: 'Yesterday
a survey of literacy in 64 cities confirmed what Seattle bookworms have long
suspected. It named Seattle as one of the country's two most-literate
I don't get it either. The negative response on the Mpls-Issues listserv
seems to me to be a rush-to-judgement without any evaluation criteria.
Let me see. The reasons I've read are:
global capitalism
high salaries
private sector experience
I agree with both David and Karen regarding the hasty challenges and
negative assumptions regarding the new CPED hires, although I find it
interesting that an Interim Director is doing the hiring.
My more immediate concern is over city housing policy specifically, and
economic development policy
Those who believe in conspiracies involving old ties among CPED folks
have overlooked the obvious one: CPED Director Lee Sheehy wears bow
ties. Mike Christenson showed up for his CPED appointment announcement
Friday wearing a bow tie. And Louis Smith, the mastermind behind Smith
Parker,
With the current conversation about Market Barbeque,
Ribfest, old Minneapolis, and the Big Box discussion
still going strong, the following observation came to
mind:
I would LOVE to see a Minneapolis locally-owned rib
restaurant, such as AJs Smokehouse or Amos and Amos
(if theyre still open),
My thanks to Karen Collier and David Brauer for their recent posts, which have
elevated the discussion of appointments in CPED.
I'd like to throw in my two cents' worth about Mike Christensen. I know Mike,
albeit not well. But well enough to have developed a keen admiration for his
work, his
This also sheds light on the chalked messages along the Greenway a while back - I
never understood what was meant by Who is the man behind the bow tie?, which was
among the anti-Smith Parker messagesnow I get it!
Tom Welling
CARAG
--- On Mon 07/14, Steve Brandt wrote:
Those who
David Bruer writes:
4. What neighborhood-level experience does the CPED leadership bring?
Based
as much on history as any one appointee's resume, there is skepticism that
economic development will be guided by a bottom-up philosophy (as opposed
to a long-running big-employer, top-down one.) How
This response is mistaken in it's basic assumption: that most
everything is available on the internet. Much current information is
on the internet, though the majority of research-related material is
proprietary and not freely available. And then there are the
unquantifiable numbers of old (as
David Brauer wrote:
Amid furious budget-cutting, the city has more than doubled its squad of
traffic cops - and tickets quadrupled from March to May, according to
councilmember Dan Niziolek. For more details, see:
http://www.swjournal.com/display/inn_news/news06.txt
David Brauer
Editor, SW
Michael Hohmann writes:
I agree with both David and Karen regarding the hasty
challenges and negative assumptions regarding the new CPED
hires, although I find it interesting that an Interim
Director is doing the hiring.
I too, am curious how an Interim Director of a not-yet-established
Okay, literate fellow citizens, time to start a new thread!
What's YOUR favorite Minneapolis bookstore? When I need a nice print fix, I
like to go to Orr Books in Uptown or to the Book House in Dinkytown.
Shinder's is good for newspapers if I really want to smear up my house with ink. And
It gives an outsider like yours truly to see the partisanship in almost
every comment about Lee Sheehy's appointment of Mike Christensen, some of
them missing major points in the face of resentments over Mike's emergence
from a law firm that represented an adversary.
There is NO administration
Good summer thread. . .
MayDay books in Cedar-Riverside (I believe, a REAL representation of the
Cedar-Riverside 60's culture) for its zine rack and subversive staff.
I also love Birchbark Books, Louise Erdrich's store near Lake of the Isles. Its
complete with a catholic confessional, a cozy
If 95% of the drivers are not stopping, and yet not getting into an
accident, there must be darn little cross traffic at this intersection. So
why is there a stop sign there at all?
Talk to the City Traffic department, and get them to replace this Stop sign
with the Yield sign that is clearly
Fellow Readers,
I'm almost reluctant to post my favorite book store in Minneapolis,
because it's such a quiet treasure. It's Birch Bark Books, on the
upper west side of Lake of the Isles (2115 W. 21st Street).
The owner, our local famous-author Louise Erdrich, has created a
hideaway for
Hennepin County is planning a major reconstruction of
Lake Street. Unfortunately, this project is heavily
influenced by another road-building project, the
controversial 35W Access Project. Both of these
projects are linked in many ways. Both projects are
managed by Smith Parker, a law firm with no
Traffic tickets have indeed more than doubled, if not quadrupled, in the
Minneapolis Police Department's (MPD) Traffic Unit. However, this increase
is not seen throughout the department as a whole. As the architect for a
larger MPD Traffic Unit, I established its' mission to keep the streets and
On 7/14/03 5:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, literate fellow citizens, time to start a new thread!
What's YOUR favorite Minneapolis bookstore? When I need a nice print fix, I
like to go to Orr Books in Uptown or to the Book House in Dinkytown.
Shinder's is good for
Wouldn't want to forget list member Don Blyly's fine shop, Uncle Hugo's,
or its rival, Dreamhaven.
Rosalind Nelson
Bancroft neighborhood
TEMPORARY REMINDER:
1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait.
2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject
There's also May Day Books on the West Bank of U of M where I can get Ad
Busters, and Once Upon A Crime at 604 W 26, near Lyndale, where I picked
up all the Easy Rawlings mysteries published so far (beautifully written
by Walter Mosley). I've also appreciated the used bookstores in Uptown:
Magers
What intrigues me is this? Was a National Search done for these
positions? One search or two? At about $35,000+ expenses for testing,etc.
a pop we could have spent almost $100,000 looking all over the world
looking for these two people when they were right in our own back yard, at
our
On 7/15/03 12:06 AM, Rosalind Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wouldn't want to forget list member Don Blyly's fine shop, Uncle Hugo's,
or its rival, Dreamhaven.
[...]
Or, on a related note, the incredible Big Brain Comics.
Between Big Brain, Cheapo, the Electric Fetus, and Fifth Element, every
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