JASON - The Minnesota Department of Commerce handles all complaints
against building contractors because they are licensed by the State of
Minnesota and not by each city individually. The investigators at
Commerce are first rate and will be glad to help you.
Minneapolis building inspectors are
I don't know if anyone has looked into this
I have never seen it, but I believe the Park Board has a portable park that
functions as a Park building on wheels. Should Jordan be a priority for staff
and resources?
Maybe Jonathan Palmer or other folks from Jordan can help us with what has
Two recent posts.
First, by Andrew Reineman:
Great News!!! I just saved the Park Board a lot of money!!! I did not
remember seeing any internet access at my local rec center (Linden
Hills), so I drove over there and asked if they had any. Nope. I
continued with my questioning by asking if
Illegal street closing at Jackie Cherryhomes' behest will cost city $250,000
overall.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4718602.html
David Brauer
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Beginning with an anecdote about how School Board chair Sharon Henry Blythe
may not send her own child to city schools in the future, Steve Brandt
examines the bad (and good) of Minneapolis schools. Here are links to the
package that ran Monday:
Minneapolis public schools are hurting, but their
My earlier post was not entirely clear. This is a state licensed contractor doing
business in
Minneapolis.
MN Dept of Commerce was able to act on a complaint that the contractor had an
unsatisfied court
judgement against them. Commerce cajoled them into paying up. Unless you have a
At a Press Conference at 9:00 a.m. the Met Council and
ATU will announce they have reached an agreement that
will end the bus strike. Great news.
Barb Lickness
Whittier
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the
world. Indeed, it's the only thing that
Jonathan said:
but how do you explain to one of the kids in
Jordan that they've got to wait until next year for
the basics in playground equipment, because some kid
in one of the nice neighborhoods needs to have
internet access while sitting by the lake? And we've
got to help fund the
Good Morning,
Please correct me if I am wrong. My understanding is that the strike is not
over, only that a tentative agreement has been reached. The union members
still need to vote to ratify the agreement. I have not heard anything about
when that vote will occur. Nor have I heard that
Linden Hills NRP also did a Tot Lot at the local park, added a new
playground at an elementary school; added new fill, grass, backstops and
benches along the baselines on two ball fields,; put over $100K into
renovating our community library; and, worked with another neighborhood to
put a
Pawlenty won't release details because the union wants to tell its
members firsthowever, if the union members give approval, he
predicted buses would be running by Saturday (April 17).
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Hello All,
Apache Plaza was great in its day. I used to live across the street from it, and
would take my kids bowling there. It had a nice open two sided bowling alley
downstairs, and it was good cheap entertainment. It a nice mix of stores, and you
could wait inside in warmth for that #4
We have canceled the stadia hearing scheduled for the
Senate State and Local Government committee tomorrow to
allow members to attend the funeral for Senator
Vickerman's son, who died over the weekend. I'll re-post
when we schedule it again. We're also postponing the
hearing on the University
I miss Apache a great deal. Some of my fondest memories of childhood
shopping trips were spent there. The train rides at Christmas time,
Jolly's, the Ice Cream Shoppe, the video games in the mall, and the many
many years of church craft shows. I remember as a youngster the very first
year I
On Saturday, April 10, 2004, at 02:20 PM, WizardMarks wrote:
For the very poor, totally dissed population, refusing to comply is
their only power--the power to say no to social constraints. It's not
poor upbringing so much as bitterness, bone deep fatigue, and an
exercise of the only power
FYI:
There is a meeting tonight from 7-9 at Powderhorn Park Community Center Gym
( 3400 15th Avenue South) about the redevelopment of the Sears building,
The Midtown Exchange Project.
This link will give more information:
http://midtowncommunityworks.org/exchange/
Sheila Delaney
Ward 9
Call me cynical, but the dreamy vision for a new Apache Plaza anchored
with a WalMart, flanked by commuter rail whisking people downtown to
plays at the Guthrie is a bit too much to swallow. After 40 days of
evidence that mass transit is not a priority for this metro area, we'll
have to dream
David Brauer wrote:
This might also be a great place for R.T.'s combine-the-resources idea:
Hosmer library, with its cool new technology center, is six blocks away from
King Park. Question, not accusation: why have two public computer sets so
close together?
WM: I think that configuration is
At 11:31 AM 4/12/2004, Sen.Linda Higgins wrote:
The Senate State and Local Government Operations
committee will hear the governor's stadia proposal on
Wednesday, April 14, at 12:30 PM or a half-hour after
session ends, in room 15 of the state capitol. Sen. Steve
Kelley will present the bill. It
City Council members to hold public meeting on plans for Midtown
Exchange (former Sears site)
April 13, 2004, 7-9 pm, Powderhorn Park Community Center, 3400 15th Ave
South. Join Minneapolis City Council members Lilligren, Schiff , and
Zimmermann to learn about the project's progress and upcoming
The moral is clear - STOP WALMART! Don't buy there. Don't let them into
your neighborhood. If they're there, kick them out. Picket them. Treat
incorrigible Walmart shoppers as scabs - no one should ever cross that
line into the store. WalMart should vanish from the face of the earth. It
is the
Yes, I was on the picket line today while Pawlenty, Bell and Ron Lloyd
were giving their press conference. Already people were leaning out their
car windows and shouting at the picketers, Go home! The strike is over!
Many people are not educated as to how unions, labor negotiations and
strikes
To
To all who are discussing this:
FromDavid:
Jordan should definitely
have new equipment (the question to generations of district commissioners -
why didn't you make this happen? And where was NRP, which has funded a lot
of equipment in wealthier neighborhoods. Poor neighborhoods
On Apr 13, 2004, at 2:08 PM, joan thom wrote:
I would like to know how much of your NRP dollars went into the
STATE Mandate. That said we were all supposed to put 52% of our
dollars into housing. This was why our Dollars did not go into our
parks because we were meeting the State Mandate.
Joan is correct that not all NRP neighborhoods met the
52.5% program mandate for housing in Phase I of NRP.
However, many neighborhoods did meet that mandate. NRP
is just shy of meeting the 52.5% for Phase I. The
necessity for the larger % in Phase II is because the
52.5% is currently measured on
Wal-Mart
I for one despise the City of St. Anthony for their willingness to sell
their souls to Wal-Mart in exchange for the almighty tax dollar. Although
the project is not in Minneapolis, the effect of the store will be felt by
all of the small retailers that have led a revival in NE
Just a heads up for the next monthly meeting of the Twin Cities Artists' Forum for anyone who is interested. Information below:
Liz Greenbaum
Longfellow
Dear Artists' Forum Supporters,
The next meeting of the Twin Cities Artists' Forum is Monday, April 19th,
from 7:00-9:00 pm at ArtiCulture,
You bet it Ain't over...just heard that the Met Council has not sent over
the complete contract to the ATU1005 leaders yet. So what are
they holding back for?
Wasn't it great to hear Peter Bell's cloyingly excessive praise of
Pawlenty's role in resolving the strike? Maybe he helped, maybe
he
On Tuesday, April 13, 2004, at 04:51 PM, Sean Ryan wrote:
Wal-Mart
I for one despise the City of St. Anthony for their willingness to
sell their souls to Wal-Mart in exchange for the almighty tax dollar.
Although the project is not in Minneapolis, the effect of the store
will be felt by all
The suburban buses that bring folks into the downtown areas do not deadhead
empty back to the suburbs--at least not all the time.
When I worked at Best Buy HQ in Eden Prairie a few years ago, I rode the SW
Transit 681 out in the morning and back in late in the day(a very comfortable
ride--nice
Just left the house of a very dear friend and neighbor of mine. She was one
of the driving forces behind getting (and keeping) the jordan garden.
She's been a resident in jordan for roughly 19 years now and ALWAYS gives
more of herself to the community than any other 10 people I know. More
Several people have quizzed me offline about the brief mention in my
Monday articles that a majority of white parents don't send their kids
to Minneapolis schools. This comes from a Minneapolis district survey
of 1,502 Minneapolis adults conducted last September and early October.
Among white
Steve Brandt did a good job on this group of stories. It seems like he's really
getting an understanding of the
district and the issues. In my opinion, the most useful of the pieces is the outline
of the five crucial areas for the
district to address, Are Minneapolis schools locked in a
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