Re: [Mpls] Heating with wood

2004-08-27 Thread Dyna Sluyter
On Thursday, August 26, 2004, at 05:34 PM, Diane Wiley wrote: I agree with your thoughts about wood fired heating systems being a disaster in terms of the environment -- The older woodstoves were polluters, but the new ones meet tougher EPA standards and are much cleaner. but there are

Re: [Mpls] Red Light Cameras

2004-08-27 Thread Dan
Where's the evidence that traffic light timing has become more aggressive? How is de-synchronizing lights an aggressive policy versus one of neglect? It's an agressive attack on the automobile, and the people who drive them. It's a deliberate attempt to make driving less pleasant, in an

[Mpls] Red Light Cameras

2004-08-27 Thread Dan Prozinski
Chris Johnson starts by saying he doesn't think lights are timed aggressively then goes on to describe his pet peeve: My pet peeve are the lights which turn red for non-existent cross traffic, especially during times of extremely light traffic of any kind. Wether it's out-of-sync light

RE: [Mpls] Red Light Cameras

2004-08-27 Thread Allen
I am happy to see the city pushing this issue forward. Some folks have commented that there are some lights they feel do not have a properly timed yellow. That wouldn't surprise me given the number of traffic lights in the city. My personal experience is that most not only are properly timed

[Mpls] Floyd B. Olson Memorial Highway

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Klemz
Hi: I just wanted to take this opportunity to personally and profusely thank the Minnesota Taxpayers League and the honorable leader David Strom for shining a bright spotlight on one our greatest governors and his legacy. Floyd B. Olson has largely been forgotten and erased from history. His

[Mpls] Shoreham Yards Polution

2004-08-27 Thread Mark Wilde
From the City Pages article --- In subsequent years, however, it became clear that the pollution was worse than initially thought. The PCP--a known carcinogen that can damage the central nervous system, liver and kidneys--had seeped through the soil, into the Prairie du Chien aquifer and slowly

[Mpls] Large sculpture needs home...

2004-08-27 Thread Steve Brandt
A see-through steel-rod sculpture that has sat at the FDA office in downtown Minneapolis for 25 years has been displaced by redevelopment, and needs a home. It consists of three pieces called Family. It needs a site of about 25 feet diameter. My neighbor, the sculptor, needs to locate a site

[Mpls] Don't settle for phoney NCLB* school reforms (*No Child Left Behind)

2004-08-27 Thread Socialist2001
Education is a right, not a privilege! Demand a quality education for all on an equal basis! Make all of the district-run schools good schools Make a college-bound education accessible to all Five policy changes needed to improve and equalize the quality of instruction in district-run schools:

[Mpls] FW: Minnesota Dakota burial mounds desecrated

2004-08-27 Thread Steven Clift
Any updates on this? Steven Clift Standish-Ericsson -Original Message- From: Minnesota Indian Affairs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Spotted Eagle Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 12:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: Minnesota Dakota burial mounds desecrated fyi

[Mpls] Response to Taxpayers League push to rename Olson Highway

2004-08-27 Thread Steve Nelson
In his article about the petition drive by the Taxpayers League, Conrad Defiebre quotes the Taxpayers League president David Strom as saying, It is finally time to put official celebration of socialism and communism firmly in the past, he said. Floyd B. Olson represents the failed path of

Re: [Mpls] Floyd B. Olson Memorial Highway

2004-08-27 Thread Dyna Sluyter
On Friday, August 27, 2004, at 08:58 AM, Aaron Klemz wrote: I just wanted to take this opportunity to personally and profusely thank the Minnesota Taxpayers League and the honorable leader David Strom for shining a bright spotlight on one our greatest governors and his legacy. Floyd B. Olson has

[Mpls] Re: [StPaul] Response to Taxpayers League push to rename Olson Highway

2004-08-27 Thread David Shove
Name something for war criminal Reagan? I suggest the Ronnie Reagan Toxic Waste Dump. To suggest throwing out Floyd B Olson for that moral midget Reagan is just one more step in the corporate/ruling class attempt to overthrow democracy and install greedy parasites at the top of the food chain,

Re: [Mpls] West Broadway Cub

2004-08-27 Thread David Gadberry
In any event, it appears the West Broadway Cub doesn't deserve to be singled out on this score. David Brauer Kingfield I don't know where you guys shop in Minneapolis but I never get asked for identification anywhere when using a credit card. If I did get asked, I would take my business

Re: [Mpls] Response to Taxpayers League push to rename Olson Highway

2004-08-27 Thread Dorie Rae Gallagher
Well spoken Steve. If Reaganomics with trickledown economics is the celebration that Mr. Strom believes is so visionary...give me a Floyd B. Olson any day. Floyd B. Olson represents a strong historical past in Minnesota, it's people and the fight for the common labourer. (Don't forget the strikes

[Mpls] Tom Van Lear, SOCIALIST Mpls mayor

2004-08-27 Thread David Shove
In many cases it was only when the labor movement mobilized politically and placed some of its most progressive leaders into public office that long overdue changes were initiated. Not until Tom Van Lear, a socialist and a leader of the Machinists Union, was elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1916