Ms. Introwitz Pareene: We are all frustrated at the number of teachers being
cut this year, but you're following the wrong tack here. It's the revenue,
not the spending, that's the problem.
This year's budget cuts are the third consecutive year of cuts for MPS, a
three year tally of nearly $100
Police investigate alleged brutality by bike cop
Published June 8, 2003
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3924789.html
MINNEAPOLIS: Police probe alleged incident of brutality
BY AMY MAYRON
Pioneer Press
Posted on Sat, Jun. 07, 2003
What JOseph Erickson posted regarding the level
of overhead in the system was enlightening. But
what I'd also like to see is the per student cost
over the last 20 years in constant dollars.
Relative to inflation, are we paying more to
educate a student? And what would be the main
reasons? Are
Given that the boy's aunt is an aide to Mayor Rybak, we might see some
justice here, otherwise this incident would be ignored by City Hall and
our local news media (with the exception of City Pages and Pulse). In
any case, there have been far too many incidents of abuses by the
Minneapolis
Hello,
I have been on the
list for a week or two and like how the discussion usually stays on-subject and
away from flames.
I would like to
introduce myself. My name is Brian Fesler. Iwork for a
downtown church and am a musician. I lived 5 years in Stevens Square, then
4 years ago moved
I looked at the applications to high school on the first link below. It is
amazing what narrow choices the schools expect eighth graders to make when
applying for high schools. I've heard through the grape vine that the
actual experience in the high schools isn't nearly so narrow as the
Ronald Leurquin wrote:
BTW, no one on here has seen fit to respond to my tax proposal of letting
each government body tax income for its needs, and only its needs. Feds
for
feds, state for state, county for eh county, and the city for the city.
That would end the need to Aid for Cities the
The posted letter is one side of the story; perhaps we should wait to
hear both sides, before commenting.
Roberta Englund
Folwell Neighborhood
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Peter T Schmitz
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 9:59 AM
To: [EMAIL
It is heartening to see more listmembers paying attention to economic
conditions:
[Mork] Then the article in the Homes section said low interest
rates were reducing the potential market of renters at the same
time as 1,600 new apartments were coming on line (no building?)
[Heller] Remember that
Anderson Turpin wrote:
Ronald Leurquin wrote:
BTW, no one on here has seen fit to respond to my tax proposal of
letting
each government body tax income for its needs, and only its needs.
Feds
for
feds, state for state, county for eh county, and the city for the
city.
Are you saying
I'm glad that this issue is getting the coverage it deserves. However, it
is clear that this is happening only because the young man involved is the
nephew of Kinshasha Kambui, aide to the mayor. At the same time this was
happening to the young man, we probably got calls on our hotline of
Michelle:
Apparently there are two people with the same name working in the Mayor's office. The Kinshasa Kambui I know cares very deeply and has worked very hard on the issue of civil rights.
To suggest that she is not concerned about the issue of civil rights, because she may not have agreed
Peter T Schmitz wrote:
Given current economic conditions, the city cannot afford anymore law
suits. Nor cannot it afford the race riots that are sure to come.
WM: Let's not be jumping to any contusions here. According to the Strib
and PiPress, the police department immediately got Lt.Val
The role that Ms. Kambui played is significantly different that just
disagreeing with the proposed structure of federal mediation
(which, under DOJ protocols calls for the community, not the city, to
select its representation). Her role has been to undermine that
potential avenue for change by
Hello Titilayo Bediako and Minneapolis Folks:
This is a very disturbing story that makes my stomach
turn. I would hope several of the reporters that
participate in this list will investigate this
incident and write more about it.
Ken Bradley Corcoran Neighborhood
--- Shawn Lewis [EMAIL
Vickie Heller writes:
[Heller] Not really. Adjusted for inflation, house prices are the
same as they were seventeen years ago. A book was just published,
The Coming Crash in the Housing Market by John Talbot - check it out
at Amazon.com.
Well, good luck to Mr. Talbot. His reasoning
A friend of mine said he e-mailed Council Member Lisa Goodman asking for a moratorium on the no camping laws so people who are homeless will not be harassed by the police to keep moving on, having camp sites destroyed and abuse delivered.
If my friend misquoted Ms. Goodman, I hope she corrects
Okay, so let me get this straight. Because an entity is "beholden to the City" (a yet as undefined term), their voice has no credibility in the process of mediation? Who determined this? Those that wanted to take part and had never received financial (or other) assistance?
It appears to
Michelle, I've generally been supportive of your positions, but this is one time that youare way off base with this, to the point of being absurd and offensive. You made a lot of accussations in these last emails and for someone who doesn't know Kinshasha, nor the inner workings of the Mayor's
Anderson Turpin commented on the information recently disseminated by the
Maple River Education Coalition about Mpls schools. I contacted Jim
Grathwol, the legislative liason forMPS, for a reply. It follows.
Please note Jim's paragraph about his efforts to get MREdCo to stop
disseminating
So who are the possible candidates to replace RT?
DFL, Green, GOP, Independent, Libertarian...
Starting the talk now would put pressure on RT, let lots of candidates
come forward, and give people lots of time to assess them. Make democracy
work.
--David Shove
Roseville
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003,
Frankly, I've never thought I had much privacy when walking down Nicollet
Ave!
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson
Do you supporters really think it's worth the loss of your privacy to put
cameras on the street corner . . .
Andy Driscoll
Saint Paul
TEMPORARY REMINDER:
1. Don't feed the
It always interests me that when the perpetrator of a crime is a police
officer, we are always encouraged to wait for the other side (or, in most
cases, wait for it to be swept under the rug, buried in the back of the
metro section, lost in the beauracracy of Internal Affairs, referred to a
Peter writes:
For once we're getting the victim's side of the story, but that's because
his aunt is an aide to Mayor Rybak.
Not true, that is not a fact but your opinion. I heard about it because
Shawn Lewis posted the story and letter on this forum.
Martha Sandberg
Kingfield
TEMPORARY
Another disturbing part of this incident was the refusal by the desk
sergeant to take a report from the mother, and initiate appropriate
action. If this story is true, the officer involved should be charged with
assault! And this Sergeant Young, who refused to accept a report from a
citizen,
Natalie Johnson Lee, Ron Edwards and Lisa McDonald seem like good
possibilities. For City Council we need successful small business owners
like Kim Bartmann (owner of Bryant Lake Bowl and Cafe Barbette) and
activists from Stride and Communities United Against Police Brutality, as
well as those
It's been interesting to read the various posts about the Target on West
Broadway closing and the possibility of a Cub Foods opening on Central Ave.
While I have become no great fan of big box retail in recent years, I do
agree with those who see the Target closing as yet another kick in the
Victoria Heller writes:
[Mork] But if a person owns a house and can hold ONTO it, suddenly
it
appreciates like nobody's business.
[Heller] Not really. Adjusted for inflation, house prices are the
same as they were seventeen years ago. A book was just published,
The Coming Crash in the
A small store will be very lacking in stockroom storage space, compared to
what is provided in newly-built stores. Thus they won't be able to store
as much in back to restock shelves, and so when items sell out the shelves
stay empty until the next supply truck arrives.
So Target's claim that
Rick Mons inquires:
I'm not sure where you -- or the author you quote -- are getting your
data.
Vicky replies:
I was quoting the book author, John Talbot, who was interviewed on
CNBC last week. I am sure that he was using national data, but I do
not know his source. In many markets, real
Vicky writes:
I was quoting the book author, John Talbot, who was interviewed on
CNBC last week. I am sure that he was using national data, but I do
not know his source. In many markets, real estate prices have already
dropped significantly.
In Minneapolis for example, City Center's value
If the price of real estate goes down when costs
go up, why does the price of real estate EVER go
up? Have you ever seen a time when the costs of
real estate went down? The only instance I can
think of was when the state started picking up
some of the public expenses formerly handled by
property
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. 42
June 9, 2003
**
THIS WEEK IN THE OBSERVER:
* City Vying with St. Paul for New Allina Headquarters
* Local
Here we go again. Same story. Same debate. No action for the long term.
The Minneapolis Police Department continues with its infestation by thumpers
and their defenders, who may or may not also be thumpers. There are too many
thumpers and too many thumpings in this and all cities by police
Please delete the previous message you are responding to. If you need to
quote sections of a previous post, cut and paste into your post.
Lots of repeated text makes hard reading and longer downloads for our digest
readers.
Thanks,
David Brauer
List manager
TEMPORARY REMINDER:
1. Don't feed the
On 6/8/03 6:52 PM, Tim Bonham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A small store will be very lacking in stockroom storage space, compared to
what is provided in newly-built stores. Thus they won't be able to store
as much in back to restock shelves, and so when items sell out the shelves
stay empty
Andy Driscoll wrote:
Many police officers may be wonderful, but they are outnumbered in
Minneapolis by those who are not
WM: I don't think they are outnumbered, but they are outflanked.
and they also would rather circle their
wagons around the brotherhood than to address the decay and
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