Re: [Mpls] Library chatter: New Central Library

2001-04-30 Thread Sheldon Mains
For anyone interested, the Library Implementation Committee present its recommendations for the Library Board and City Council Tuesday at 7:30AM at the Grain Exchange cafeteria, 400 S. 4th Street. On a related note, in the STrib article on the Mayor race this morning, the sidebar on what races

[Mpls] DFL Convention

2001-04-30 Thread Steven Froemming
Hello Minneapolis how are you doing today? Say the reason that I am writing to day is to find out what peoples views are about the DFL City Convention that is coming up This Saturday at Augsburg College. Please let me know what you think about that convention that is coming up on Saturday.

Re: [Mpls] Separate Park Board/Konderator

2001-04-30 Thread KarenCollier
In response to Carol Becker's comments about the Konderator, you will remember, Carol, that the reason the business owners sued was because the City initially approved the Konderator during Sandra Hillary's term as Council Member. When Joe Biernat was elected, he moved to rescind the permit

Re: [Mpls] art-a-whirl

2001-04-30 Thread Roxy Donigan
Mpls does have a ton of wonderful and diverse things to do, free or low cost thtoughout the summer. We are also lucky that our city, council people and park boards encourage communities to create their own fesitvals. Thank you for sharing those good resources Annie. Roxy Donigan East IslesGet

Re: [Mpls] Park costs

2001-04-30 Thread Carol Becker
Regarding the comparability of the numbers I posted previously on national urban park costs: Every effort as made to bring each agency's financial numbers into conformity so that comparisons can be accurate and meaningful. Therefore all extraneous nonpark and recreation activities - including

[Mpls] Democrat Rev Phred Comes to Minneapolis (Again)

2001-04-30 Thread Eva Young
The Rev Fred Phelps (www.godhatesfags.com) intends to demonstrate against several Minneapolis Churches on May 6, then Woodbury High School May 7: http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/apr2001/Woodbury_High_School_4-28-2001.pdf This is the text from the Minneapolis Churches part of this flyer:

Re: [Mpls] Park costs

2001-04-30 Thread Ginny Craig
Thanks, Carol, for the more detailed comparison. Seems like our first place status in amenities aligns with our second place in costs fairly well, at least using these numbers. And I'd much rather swim in a lake than I would in a pool! Carol Becker wrote: Regarding the comparability of the

Re: [Mpls] Democrat Rev Phred Comes to Minneapolis (Again)

2001-04-30 Thread BastilleChris
Eva's posting on Rev Phelps (the extreme homophobe who runs godhatesfags.com) confused me. the title of your posting labeled him as a democrat, but the email said nothing about his party affiliation. I'm curious as to whether or not it is true that this hate-monger is a member of the democratic

RE: [Mpls] Redistricting Mpls

2001-04-30 Thread Richard Chandler
Title: RE: [Mpls] Redistricting Mpls I took a couple of what I think are the salient comments on the GOP redistricting plan and added them below. As a Minneapolis Republican, let me add my thoughts. I have not checked this in detail, but I do not remember a single DFL candidate for a

Re: [Mpls] Democrat Rev Phred Comes to Minneapolis (Again)

2001-04-30 Thread Eva Young
At 01:02 PM 4/30/01 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eva's posting on Rev Phelps (the extreme homophobe who runs godhatesfags.com) the title of your posting labeled him as a democrat, but the I'm curious as to whether or not it is true that this hate-monger is a member of the democratic

[Mpls] Litter solutions

2001-04-30 Thread timothy connolly
Okay, Okay. So it's not just open dumpsters, garbage haulers, etc. who are responsible for most of the litter. It's the population in general. How can we move toward solving the problem. First of all, let's lighten up a little and realize this is only one of many problems in our city and not

[Mpls] Library chatter

2001-04-30 Thread wizardmarks
I would make the point here that libraries all over the country and here in Minneapolis, have been frugal in living within the budget (or within hailing distance at least) the city slots MPL for. However, most of the annual budget goes to wages, which is normal. Some goes for buildings and

Re: [Mpls] Litter solutions

2001-04-30 Thread Scott McGerik
timothy connolly wrote: has anyone in city government given due consideration to the idea of not allowing any more fast food franchises with drive-up windows rather than having the Planning Commission work on site plans for the status quo? A fair portion of the litter blowing down my

Re: [Mpls] Park costs

2001-04-30 Thread Sheldon Mains
Carol--any idea how they delt with transfers from the Met Council. I think that is somewhat unique to Minnesota. Also, any numbers on the percent city vs suburban residents using the park systems? . sheldon mains, seward neighborhood, minneapolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] the

Re: [Mpls] Mission to destroy our biosphere

2001-04-30 Thread Many Crows
Mr. Gustafson, No disrespect to you, it's just that I see it from a point of view of borrowing from our children's future. If I'm correct you look at the world like a checkbook, um, looks like I got $500 in my account, I can easily spend $300 and I won't be overdrawn. The way I look at it, we've