>However, no one has come up with even an unreasonable argument,
>much less a compelling one, for why light rail must go down 5th St.
>Tim Erickson did pass along a summary from Dayna Kennedy, the
>Communications Manager for the Metro Transit/Hiawatha line, but it
>addresses the situation from th
I don't reflexively oppose Tim Connolly's idea of scrapping NRP. As Russ
noted, it's a great debate to have. But as Tim noted, he is vague and we
need to examine the real trade-offs.
Parenthetically, I'm sorry about my designation of "serious" candidates. I
was sloppy (unintentionally). My person
DAVID CHRISTENSON wrote:
> "On the other hand it seems bizarre to me that natural features that were
> ignored for decades while the highway plan was on the back burner suddenly
> became revered for their historic and religious significance when the heavy
> machinery finally revved up. Very bizar
> >However, no one has come up with even an unreasonable argument,
> >much less a compelling one, for why light rail must go down 5th St.
I don't know the answer to this question and have been curious
myself. However, I certainly would hope that the answer goes
something like this.
The overa
I just want to touch on a thread here about the
"power" of Neighborhood Associations (NA's).
The volunteers on the Neighborhood Association Boards
were elected to those seats. They are elected by
stakeholders in the neighborhood at the annual
meeting.
Neighborhood Associations have recommenda
wizardmarks wrote:
>
> Many Crows wrote:
> >
> > DAVID CHRISTENSON wrote:
> >
> > > "On the other hand it seems bizarre to me that natural features that were
> > > ignored for decades while the highway plan was on the back burner suddenly
> > > became revered for their historic and religious sign
Thank you David. I could never do as brilliant of a job on a point by point
discussion of the NRP and the neighborhood associations. I would like to
say a special "here-here" to his public recognition of the non-partisan
nature of neighborhood work. My own ongoing interest in neighborhood work
h
I also applaud Tim for starting this thread and, no, I didn't know he
was running for Mayor.
I agree with Tim that we need accountability and fiscal responsibility
in our city leadership. I will argue that the citizen participation that
has resulted from ten years of NRP has helped to open the b
As most of you know, I'm running as an Independent candidate for the
Minneapolis Public Library Board of Trustees. To ensure a first-rate
library system in Minneapolis, we must offer a safe learning environment;
fiscal accountability, responsible budgeting and more taxpayer
accountability. New I
The Journal charges for access, so I'm not sure if this link will work for
most of you, but here it is, from today's (Tuesday's) paper:
http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=SB99289666317721046.djm
Pertinent quotes:
"Tossing the hat inspired so many women," says Minneapolis Mayor S
As I was walking to the library today, ruminating on
NRP, city and regional planning, citizen activism,
political accountability, communication etc,
processing information from a book I just finished,
this occurred to me.
Why aren't town meetings a regular part of municipal
politics and governanc
Michael Hohmann wrote:
>
>
To ensure a first-rate
> library system in Minneapolis, we must offer a safe learning environment.
As another library board candidate (full disclosure[FD]):
"safe learning ennvironment" is too vague for me. If the
safety is interpreted by many to mean children (12 to 1
Hi Michael:
Thanks for making your proposal. Which particular filter package would you
recommend for the library? What criteria would you want to use for
choosing a filter package? Who would you use as advisers for this process?
The FRC -- which has been supporting the Librarian's lawsuit, th
I have said all along that I will hold regular
meetings in the ward. Karen Clark, Linda Berglin, and
Linda Wjecman, and now Neva Walker have regular
Saturday morning meetings before the legislative
session both to inform and gather input. I believe
the council member should be a regular particip
Candidate Connolly,
Tim, I love your idea of the town hall meetings! In fact so do a lot of
other people, which is why they participate in them on a regular basis.
They don't call them Town Hall meetings, since Minneapolis is not a small
town. Instead, they are called neighborhood meetings.
Ther
Let's face it folks, the line between real and unreal has blurred a lot
thanks to television. Nightly news has to be entertaining or no one watches
say the TV executives. Sports heroes wander over into politics. No one
stays in their niches anymore.
I like the idea of the Mary Richards stat
I wrote a post on Jailhouse Rock that apparently was a
"riddle" to a few members of the list. I will attempt
to explain my "middler riddle" one more time.
I believe the riddle faced by all middlers is a riddle
shared by many of our immediate neighbors to the right
and left of us. That is, what pa
Well, we may never have put up a statue to Nellie Stone Johnson but tonight
I was out on the campaign trail going from place to place I was listening
to the School Board meeting just at the time they named a school after
Nellie - and the speeches from city, state and labor leaders were
wonderful.
Michael Hohmann
>My proposed policy is that we place
>some filtered-access Internet terminals in each library facility for use by
>minor children.
(Note, I am a candidate for Library Board)
Filters do not work, are expensive, provide a false sense of security, and
are probably against the First
There have been postings by new contributors to the effect that
neighborhood associations who don't have the governmental quality of
representing everyone are in violation of the NRP law. This argument is
based on the law as it currently stands not on some wished for future
neighborhood governmen
Title: raw feedback
fellow list members:
i was forwarded the following link. our esteemed list moderator and myself found the content interesting, if raw. it's a bit of a sociological study of what others in our community are saying about the mayoral race, neighborhood development, corporate
Tim,
I think this is a brilliant idea, and one that I have been doing in my
neighborhood as Chair of the Stevens Square Community Organization for the
past three years through our monthly board meeting. And while this provides
at least one opportunity for people to ask questions, discuss issue
Hello, Robert -
Robert Gustafson wrote:
> Mark appeared offended that I implied he was a
> "liberal mirror image of the Jesse Helms brigade." He
> is correct, I should have not made that analogy
> without knowing him better. I interpreted his thoughts
> expressed in one post to reach my concl
How about it Jon? Do you have an answer for your
constituents? (May we assume no reply is a "No"?)
Does anyone have an email for Jon in case he doesnt
participate on the list? [EMAIL PROTECTED] was returned,
account disabled.
Kurt Waltenbaugh
ECCO, Ward 10
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Me
We are already in the second week of this discussion, but this may
still be of some interest to participants on this list.
Tim Erickson
Politalk Moderator
St. Paul, Minnesota
651-643-0722
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