Re: [Mpls] Coddling the Criminals: CUAPB Statement on Latest Police Brutality(?) Incident

2003-10-16 Thread Steve Nelson
different picture of the events in my mind than what had emerged here over the last few days. What seemed to be coming out was a picture of a punitive attack by out of control police. Steve Nelson Willard Hay (near Old Highland that was official enough to have city signs saying Welcome to Old Highland

Re: [Mpls] Tow Away Zones on 35W between downtown and Lake Street

2003-10-31 Thread Steve Nelson
When it comes the the freeway disabled cars are eventually towed but the owner usually has time to contact a tow company and get the vehicle picked up. Tow away zones I have seen are in high traffic corridors where there is little shoulder and removing vehicles that are disabled is

Re: [Mpls] Anti-Gay Minnesota Family Council Goes Ambulance Chasing in Minneapolis

2003-11-19 Thread Steve Nelson
Neal Krasnoff wrote: The authority of the City is not to advocate, it is to enforce the laws passed by it's governing council, subject to the superior laws of the State legislature and the Minnesota Constitution. And since discrimination is against the law the city should not be spending our

Re: [Mpls] Usury laws - tow charges

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Nelson
Mark Snyder wrote The difference is that Cedar Towing is going to have to store the vehicle until the owner discovers it's missing and shows up to bail it out. So Cedar Towing has additional expenses for insurance, security, probably property taxes, etc. that none of the other towing

Re: [Mpls] Dean for America, Rybak for Dean?

2003-11-22 Thread Steve Nelson
feelings run harsh, but you need to keep your descriptors in check on this list. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state

Re: [Mpls] Snowtown Blues

2003-12-10 Thread Steve Nelson
Dean Lindberg Minnehaha wrote: Not less than 10 minutes later, a parking patrol officer rounded the corner and started ticketing cars parked on the *east* side of my street. I was able to alert my next door neighbor because he happened to be home at that time and was blowing out the

Re: [Mpls] snow shoveling questions

2003-12-11 Thread Steve Nelson
Ron Leurquin Nokomis East wrote: Could the city make more money fining people that do now shovel their sidewalks? Why doesn't the city clamp down on the ones that seem to never shovel. Too many of the places I do walk I walk over more unshoveled walks than shoveled ones. This causes much trouble

Re: [Mpls] park board building inaccessibility

2004-01-02 Thread Steve Nelson
From one northsider to another--as an open response to the whole forum--you got it exactly right, Linda. And for those southsiders who appreciate a view they can hop on West River Road and drive right to it's door! linda higgins northside WROTE Lisa McDonald referenced the inacessibility of

Re: [Mpls] Park Board Bandidos Take Minneapolis Hostage

2004-01-02 Thread Steve Nelson
Jason, nice and accurate report. I videotaped the event and I am afraid that they will never allow television coverage when Jon Olson sees his campaign speech compared to John Erwin's. The embarassment will be too much. Or it ought to be. Jason Stone | Hale wrote I just got back from

Re: [Mpls] Park Board Bandidos Take Minneapolis Hostage

2004-01-02 Thread Steve Nelson
. They believe they can do anything they want, as openly as they want, and get away with it. When are the next park board elections? And can we keep the parks intact until then? Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mpls] Marina still fighting for life

2004-01-22 Thread Steve Nelson
the Corps of Engineers stands on the idea of a marina north of Lock and Dam #3. How would that much extra traffic effect the expected life and maintenance of the Lock--the largest one in the system? Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager

Re: [Mpls] Asleep at the Padlewheel

2004-01-23 Thread Steve Nelson
the lock open as the barge traffic is being greatly cut back since the Riverside Electric plant brings coal in by train instead of barge and the gravel operations should be phased out down the road. Just some food for thought Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated

Re: [Mpls] vacancy does not mean affordable

2004-01-24 Thread Steve Nelson
Subject: Re: [Mpls] vacancy does not mean affordable BUT it does mean the Bush economy is failing--probably because it is a corporate-centered economy instead of a people-centered economy. Corporations don't have to rent apartments. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has

Re: [Mpls] 35W Access: No environmental impact study?

2004-01-25 Thread Steve Nelson
no on this issue. I have been following PRT for about 5 years and am very anxious to be able to back a serious proposal for it's use. Thank you, Dean. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing

Re: [Mpls] 35W Access: No environmental impact study?

2004-01-25 Thread Steve Nelson
. There are quite plausible arguments for the expansion--which I do not support-- nor do I. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait

Re: [Mpls] I-35W, Dean Zimmerman's vote

2004-01-25 Thread Steve Nelson
. Had not heard about yesterday's pronouncement---SHAME ON YOU, DEAN! Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state

Re: [Mpls] Urge NO Vote to 35 W Access Project

2004-01-26 Thread Steve Nelson
Now he name drops Karen Clark as the reason for supporting the Access Project. Margaret Hastings-Mpls-MN Actually he said Karen Clark and Linda Berglin asked him to vote NO on the Access project. Of course he then voted YES. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has

Re: [Mpls] Garbage

2004-02-01 Thread Steve Nelson
this week. It was very premature and based on faulty information. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state

Re: [Mpls] The City and corporations: a crucial paradigm shift

2004-02-02 Thread Steve Nelson
-- Gary Hoover (Kingfield) wrote I've been thinking about corporations -- from those such as Waste Management, Allina, Wells Fargo, Walmart, Target, the Star and Trib and the Southwest Journal to those such as independent booksellers, grocery stores, food and housing cooperatives. I

Re: [Mpls] Target takes leave/ Leaves 300K/ Where will funds land on West Broadway?

2004-02-12 Thread Steve Nelson
be applied toward planning for West Bro. In view of last week's Pipeline meeting at the Urban League, how about a stop light at Broadway and Irving without any hassle from the state or county? Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL

[Mpls] Where is Wirth?

2004-02-15 Thread Steve Nelson
I submitted this to the Strib Letters to the Editor. I don't know if it will be published but I thought the group might find it interesting--- This is very interesting. Can you guess the identity of this person? Most of this description of him comes from webpage for theThe Honorable Cornelius

Re: [Mpls] Franklin Street Bakery

2004-02-17 Thread Steve Nelson
sharing, safety committees and excellent rewards for suggestions. Unfortunately, they are the ONLY example I have run across and now that the family is no longer running the corp who knows what direction labor management may be taking. I was there 30 years ago. Steve Nelson Willard Hay

Re: RE: [Mpls] Park Watch: Wednesday Park Board commissionersmeeting]

2004-02-18 Thread Steve Nelson
THANK YOU! My time machine was malfunctioning! Steve Nelson Willard Hay - Original Message - From: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mpls Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:31 AM Subject: [Fwd: RE: [Mpls] Park Watch: Wednesday Park Board

Re: [Mpls] 8th Ward look-ahead: the council campaign begins

2004-03-02 Thread Steve Nelson
8th Ward possibilities - is welcome to this new 8th Ward voter. --As a close follower of the Park Board, we would be most delighted to see you move her to the City Council--if that helps... Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager

Re: [Mpls] Taxpayer's League: Taxpayers should subsidize used carbusiness by buying clunkers for poor people during the strike

2004-03-09 Thread Steve Nelson
started tanking after that, especially after 9/11. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see

[Mpls] Hidden Health Care Expenses?

2004-03-16 Thread Steve Nelson
In today's Strib there is an interesting tidbit buried in a story about Wayzata raising money to buy and save it's Big Woods. Keeping in mind the current crisis in health care and the transit strike where the sticking point is who is going to pay for the health care coverage, where does the

Re: [Mpls] SW Journal article on Minneapolis health care plan

2004-03-27 Thread Steve Nelson
for the articles Jeanne. Steve Nelson Willard Hay and member of the MUHCC Minnesot Universal Health Care Coalition Jeanne Massey wrote The City's new health care plan (profiled in the latest SW Journal) highlights the trend toward the privatization of health care. The main beneficiary of this plan

Re: [Mpls] University and country living

2004-03-31 Thread Steve Nelson
your dorm room and stable your horse in the barn. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions

Re: [Mpls] Media Outlets too Pro-Union in Bus Strike?

2004-04-01 Thread Steve Nelson
lies. And why haven't we had any in depth overview of what the strike is really about? If the media were really pro-union we would have seen the real picture including the cuts the Transit commissioners voted for themselves--oops, that's right, they DIDN'T!! Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1

[Mpls] Bus strike refresher

2004-04-02 Thread Steve Nelson
this country on an employer based health care system. If Pawlenty and the legislature would get serious and pass some REAL health care reform and not the tweking recommended by the Durenberger group, there would be no transit strike. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated

Re: [Mpls] Bus Strike: Here's the plan

2004-04-03 Thread Steve Nelson
their fair share so we can all have a decent quality of life and not just the wealthy few! THIS is the real option Pawlenty and Bell are availing themselves of. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before

[Mpls] PRT Reality Check on MTN

2004-04-06 Thread Steve Nelson
For those who prefer to hear issues straight from the horses mouth, so to speak, I will be airing a 2 part episode about about PRT on my show THE CITIZENSHIP CHRONICLES starting this Thursday, April 8, at 5:30 PM on MTN channel 17. If you have Time-Warner cable and live in Minneapolis this is

Re: [Mpls] Good news from the Park Board

2004-04-09 Thread Steve Nelson
dole out the management of the concessions for a royalty check. They seemed to be putting themselves out of business all by themselves. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2

Re: [Mpls] Things Have Changed

2004-04-10 Thread Steve Nelson
, load the hoops in the truck and have an impromptu Pied Piper march to the Headquarters by driving down 26th with the kids marching along behind! Then again we could put hoops at BOTH places! Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager

[Mpls] PRT Repeat

2004-04-20 Thread Steve Nelson
Due to folks telling me they missed part 1 but found part 2 interesting--more comment than I have received since CITIZENSHIP CHRONICLES debuted back on Feb 12, I have asked MTN to repeat both parts 1 and 2 of the PRT special this Thursday, April 22, and next Thursday, April 29, at 5:30 PM on

Re: [Mpls] Control of Indoor Air Pollution

2004-04-24 Thread Steve Nelson
them to work in a hazardous environment--they have NO choice. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national

Re: [Mpls] Birthday boy

2004-05-04 Thread Steve Nelson
done it but singing over the internet is hard. I don't know, Barb, I heard Casey loud and clear. But for those younger members of the group or who's imagination isn't as strong as mine you can go to: http://www.lunchwithcasey.com/happy_birthday.html Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think

Re: [Mpls] Geneva Convention: Prisoners can smoke!

2004-05-16 Thread Steve Nelson
to the good old days! Let's just go back to the era when the Geneva Convention was drawn up! Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame

Re: [Mpls] Regulating vs. banning smoking in bars and restaurants

2004-05-22 Thread Steve Nelson
Mark Snyder wrote: So that brings the question to my mind, if we choose to pursue a technical fix for the problem of secondhand smoke in the form of improving ventilation in our bars and restaurants, what do we do when the inevitable breakdowns occur? Because they will occur. It is

Re: [Mpls] Empowerment Zone Meeting don't miss

2004-05-25 Thread Steve Nelson
Booker T Hodges Wrote I am glad to report that our meeting with the Mayor and EZ board executive committee members went well. You won't read about this in our daily newspaper because they are not interested in any positive interaction among whites and blacks. If the mayor had told us to pound

Re: [Mpls] My new neighbor, Wal-Mart

2004-05-26 Thread Steve Nelson
LRT and PRT. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html

[Mpls] For the progressive calendar

2004-05-26 Thread Steve Nelson
Sorry if this is a duplication for some folks, but I sent it to Dave with a CC: to the mplsforum and never saw it show up so am sending it again. WHEN: Thursday, May 27, 2004 at 5:30 PM WHERE: MTN Channel 17 WHAT: CITIZENSHIP CHRONICLES This week's episodes contains segments on the Welfare

Re: [Mpls] reply to gemgram and griffith

2004-06-03 Thread Steve Nelson
Well said, Ed! I stopped writing my own reply since you said it all anyway. Steve Nelson Willard Hay It's good to hear the old bear roar after a winter of hibernation. I'm going to believe it's good luck that I'm the first one he chased coming out of his den. Mr. Griffith, I'm sure you

Re: [Mpls] Learning Gap: Symptom or Disease?

2004-06-11 Thread Steve Nelson
Bill Kahn Prospect Park wrote Here in Minneapolis, and the rest of the state once upon a time, we know what is important. To thrive, children and families need security, both physical and economic; unfortunately for some reason, those holding the purse strings are seeing what they want

Re: [Mpls] Rybak opposes smoking ban unless modifications are made

2004-06-14 Thread Steve Nelson
couldn't very well light up even if I managed a mile, not with this oxygen tank I have to drag around. But, dammit, where's the harm in smoking? Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing

Re: [Mpls] Smoking

2004-06-17 Thread Steve Nelson
cigarette smoke--a substance that is nothing but harmful from the first puff or second hand inhale--a practice done in the privacy of one's own home rather than exposing 82% of us to something we have chosen NOT to do. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email

Re: [Mpls] Smoking: What IS the regional solution?

2004-06-25 Thread Steve Nelson
for a quick beer? Nobody would suffer from second hand drink either! Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state

Re: [Mpls] Public Health and the City

2004-06-25 Thread Steve Nelson
a greater drain on the insurance pool by their greater costs. Don't say that their freedom of choice doesn't hurt the rest of us! Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't

Re: [Mpls] Re:lrt operating costs

2004-07-03 Thread Steve Nelson
for door-to-door non-stop service WITHOUT interferring with or being interferred by busses, cars, taxis or trains! Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore

Re: [Mpls] RE: 29th Avenue Petition for Critical Parking

2004-07-12 Thread Steve Nelson
for those already there. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org

Re: [Mpls] MACs broken promises

2004-07-14 Thread Steve Nelson
for soundproofing plus 20% more to cover administrating a soundproofing program for residents who are effected by this. It might just remind MAC that they are not as autonomous as they would like to believe. Steve Nelson Willard Hay I strongly disagreed with the MAC decision in 1996 to expand the airport at its

Re: [Mpls] Lake Street lane vote

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Nelson
for making all turns right hand turns. Note I say concept, I don't really know how they work in large cities. Anybody on the list done enough driving in D.C. to report? There is also a small one in Minnehaha Park by the Longfellow house. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has

Re: [Mpls] MAC Attack

2004-07-22 Thread Steve Nelson
Dorie Rae Gallagher Nokomis East wrote Northwest got what Northwest wanted and now it all seems fuzzy on what was to be done for the residents. Is that the Iron Range repair center and customer service center that were to be created with the multi-million dollar bailout the state gave NWA that is

[Mpls] Citizenship Chronicle Blog

2004-08-01 Thread Steve Nelson
At the request of several of my friends and colleagues, I have finally decided to start a blog of my own to have a place to vent my opinions and voice my comments. I have named it in honor of my cable access MTN show CITIZENSHIP CHRONICLES. Please feel free to check it out and post any

[Mpls] Literate Cities

2004-08-04 Thread Steve Nelson
Congratulations to us in Minneapolis! The Number 1 Most Literate City in the USA! From the Strib: http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4909908.html But isn't it interesting that half of the 10 least literate cities in the US are from Texas whose governor 4 years ago promised to do for all of

Re: [Mpls] Park Superintendent

2004-08-10 Thread Steve Nelson
by cancelling the meeting. Ask him why he thought it should be cancelled instead of the responsible owns why the have to reinstate it. Steve Nelson Willard Hay REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2

Re: [Mpls] Library Workers Must Face Same Realities As Private Sector

2004-08-11 Thread Steve Nelson
Chris David Columbia Park wrote That being said, I'm not for paying them too little, but the reality is that the fiscal conservatives are in control of the state and the only way to keep kids out of drugs is to cut public sector pay. Wrong. The only way to keep kids out of drugs and get

[Mpls] Citizenship Chronicles

2004-08-19 Thread Steve Nelson
Thursday, August 19, 2004 Sorry about the long silence--been busy. But not too busy to invite folks to watch tonight's episode of Citizenship Chronicles at 5:30 PM on MTN Channel 17. It is highlights from a community discussion of the documentary THE CORPORATION held at St Joan of Arc Church on

[Mpls] School Board Debate

2004-08-26 Thread Steve Nelson
For all of us who live in Minneapolis and subscribe to Time Warner: Tonight on Citizenship Chronicles (MTN Channel 17--Time Warner Cable) is the first of two parts covering a school board candidate debate at the Urban League held on August 16th. Most of the candidates were there so it is an

Re: [Mpls] School Board Debate

2004-08-26 Thread Steve Nelson
Oh, yes--it is on at 5:30 PM but it does get repeated around midnight to 1 AM and again around 10 to 11 tomorrow morning and possibly tomorrow afternoon around 1 or 2--it all depends on other programing. For all of us who live in Minneapolis and subscribe to Time Warner: Tonight on Citizenship

[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] Park Board Meeting Highlights

2004-09-04 Thread Steve Nelson
Sorry, Dory, but I have to agree with Annie on this one. Having been observing the Park Board all year I can verify that there is a lot more to being a commissioner than attending 2 to 3 meetings a month. The meetings are the tip of the iceberg where behind the scenes work is discussed and

Re: [Mpls] Minneapolis Public school race

2004-09-04 Thread Steve Nelson
To view the candidates in a debate at the Mpls Urban League on Aug 16, contact: Melissa Winter Public Relations Coordinator 612-668-0228, 612-290-1184 (cell/pager) [EMAIL PROTECTED] to find out when it can be seen on Channel 15. Steven M Nelson Willard Hay

Re: [Mpls] Spokesman reports on School Board Debate - Dayhoff makes a splash

2004-09-11 Thread Steve Nelson
Eva Young Near North wrote Read the article to read what all school board candidates said. After the debate, I talked with candidate Starway - who is running as Republican without party endorsement. During that conversation, he mentioned that gays were causing the downfall of

[Mpls] George W. Bush is a Coward

2004-09-16 Thread Steve Nelson
I have posted the following on my blog and submitted it to the Strib as a letter to the editor. I am posting it here since we seem to be a regular stop on the campaign train of W and company and therefore relevant to local issues. George W. Bush is a coward. That fact alone should give all

Re: [Mpls] Park Board Meeting, September 15

2004-09-17 Thread Steve Nelson
Shawne FitzGerald Powderhorn wrote Chris Johnson wrote: * 8.4, that the board authorize staff to execute a letter of intent on the 201 Building [the building at Ft. Snelling which was to be the location of the failed The Fort sports complex which has not payed its contractors, and

Re: [Mpls] Creationism Center Sponsors Gay Marriage Debate/School Board Candidates on Creationism

2004-09-18 Thread Steve Nelson
Eva Young Near North Minneapolis wrote Sen Michelle Bachmann had a cameo role at this event She asked about gay marriages causing increased illegitimacy in Scandinavia... H... And here I thought that gay marriage by definition did not produce progeny. So is it guys

[Mpls] Re: MPRB 201 Building, Fort Snelling

2004-09-18 Thread Steve Nelson
For those details I will humbly bow to Annie Young or John Erwin who usually moderate this issues list. Steven M Nelson Willard Hay http://citizenshipchronicles.blogspot.com/ Get UP! Get OUT! GET INVOLVED!!! When the Park Board leased the land where the Nieman fields are located at Fort

Re: [Mpls] Re: Colors and Moods of the Mississippi River Gorge

2004-10-11 Thread Steve Nelson
Jay Clark wrote Saturday around dusk I ran along the Mississippi river. The fall colors along the Mississippi river are at their peak, and the scene I saw was so beautiful that I feel compelled to try to entice you to come over and enjoy the scenery for yourself. ... How True!! About 5 PM

Re: [Mpls] Red Green on Hiawatha Ave.

2004-10-12 Thread Steve Nelson
And all this time I thought Red Green was on PBS! Steven M Nelson Willard Hay http://citizenshipchronicles.blogspot.com/ Get UP! Get OUT! GET INVOLVED!!! Someone on this list wanted to know a particular time (hour, day, minute I assumed) when the east west traffic lights are green and the bells

Re: [Mpls] Arts in the Mpls schools

2004-09-28 Thread Steve Nelson
Robert Halfhill Loring Park wrote David, you really didn't get to the point you were trying to reply to. You argued that arts education had made you what you are today whereas the people you were trying to answer have argued that arts education does nothing to contribute to mastering the

Re: [Mpls] Arts in the Mpls schools

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Nelson
Steve M Nelson wrote: Art is all around is in most daily activities. To pretend that we can separate it from math and reading and have a complete education or that including it somehow detracts from math and literacy sounds like someone with an agenda to cut programs for some reason other than

Re: [Mpls] Speaking of Traffic on Hiawatha Avenue

2004-10-07 Thread Steve Nelson
Maybe now people will stop laughing at Dean Zimmermann and PRT and start to realize the advantages of a system that does NOT interfere with busses or cars or trains. Something that rises above it all, so to speak, and costs a FRACTION of what an el system like Chicago has would cost and a

Re: [Mpls] Phone call from DFL

2004-10-31 Thread Steve Nelson
Kenneth J. Peterson Downtown wrote Patty Wetterling's opponent comes to mind as one possible phone phreaque. This is uncalled for. Patty Wetterling's opponent has a name - Mark Kennedy. Last I checked, Mr. Kennedy wasn't taking money from anti-American organizations (i.e., MoveOn.org) THAT

Re: [Mpls] Here we go again

2004-11-17 Thread Steve Nelson
Tony Scallon Ed.S. University of Minnesota wrote As to resumes, I think all the finalists resumes should be posted so we can compare. Chris has had a distaste for Mr. Gurban and five of the Commissioners since he began posting. (Chris disrespectfully calls five of the commissioners the Gang

Re: [bcc][faked-from][heur][bayes] Re: [bcc][faked-from][bayes] [Mpls] Re: Smoking Bans, fascism, andillicit drugs

2004-11-22 Thread Steve Nelson
Jennifer Rubenzer Plymouth wrote A smoking ban on private businesses is the equivalent of the government marching into our homes and telling us what we will be eating that night...or to many of our posters chagrin - whom we should be sleeping with. We're talking about private businesses and

Re: [Mpls] Response to Commissioner Mason

2004-11-23 Thread Steve Nelson
Robert P. Goldman ECCO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote If there's a favorite son candidate like Gurban in a process, it can be very discouraging to outsiders, and they may pull their applications for that reason. It's a rational thing to do in the circumstances. You may fear that you don't have a

Re: [Mpls] Car Sharing for the Twin Cities getting closer.. (forward)

2004-12-03 Thread Steve Nelson
David Brauer Kingfield wrote No, but renewables are not all that much better for the environment (see: ethanol; the argument there is keeping the cash in the US, not pollution). This is still a good thing. And if 150 people can share six cars (instead of collectively buying lots more cars they use

Re: [Mpls] Plan to hire more MPD officers call the mayor

2004-12-12 Thread Steve Nelson
A GIANT AMEN, Jim! Steven M Nelson Willard Hay http://citizenshipchronicles.blogspot.com/ Get UP! Get OUT! GET INVOLVED!!! Allen Graetz writes, How do we know this? I have yet to see enter into the discussion, not just on this list by at the city level, any significant studies on what are

Re: [Mpls] Trees being detroyed by a DOG

2004-12-26 Thread Steve Nelson
Joan Thom Hawthorne wrote We have discovered a sad situation on our block. We have a person walking their Pit Bull and allowing her to chew on all of the trees in the block. When a neighbor asked him why he allowed this he said he couldn't stop her. I have seen at least EIGHT trees that she

Re: [Mpls] Mpls Year in Review, Unsung Heros

2004-12-29 Thread Steve Nelson
Scott McGerik South St Paul (formerly of Hawthorne) wrote I wonder about those who wanted a smoking ban so that they could go to a smoke-free bar. Considering there are 82% of us who are non-smoking and only 18% who are it would seem we are already indicating that we would prefer businesses

Re: [Mpls] Resist Minneapolis

2004-12-31 Thread Steve Nelson
Jim Graham, Ventura Village Neighborhood, Phillips Community, Sixth Ward of Minneapolis wrote Let me start by saying I think tobacco smoking is a terrible, nasty, awful addiction. But it is an addiction that is condoned and legal in Minneapolis. Minneapolis not only makes it legal but it

Re: [Mpls] Fwd: Big Apple Article about PRT

2005-01-02 Thread Steve Nelson
I have a friend who is way into the idea of PRT. I am suspicious of it since I believe in mass transit, and fear PRT could siphon dollars and attention. However, I haven't heard concrete arguments against it (e.g., its carrying capacity is too low, it costs too much, etc.). Anyone know

Re: [Mpls] Fwd: Dean Zimmermann in the news

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Nelson
Barbara Lickness wrote: In reality PRT has never worked despite over 30 years of research and development. PRT has never worked because PRT has never been tried. Every time a system was to be built those who were going to fund it called in the experts from mass transit who made the same

Re: [Mpls] Fwd: Dean Zimmermann in the news - PRT

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Nelson
-Mike Jensvold Ward 10 wrote Fortunately, personal rapid transit is already available today, in Minneapolis. It's called a taxi cab. Hardly appropriate. It is like comparing apples and oranges. Taxicabs share the roadway with other cars, trucks, buses and LRT. They also run on internal

Re: [Mpls] Transit Modes

2005-01-07 Thread Steve Nelson
Jim Mork Cooper wrote My trouble with PRT is that it sacrifices the increasing returns to scale that accrue to forms of transit that carry more people. It is simply a fact that a vehicle that carries a maximum of four people cannot be as efficient as one that carries forty. Also for a system

Re: [Mpls] Transit Modes

2005-01-07 Thread Steve Nelson
Never having to go outside--non-stop service from door-to-door--capacity equal to or greater than the LRT behemoth--guess there's no efficiency there! Cute story but i don't live in the horn tower, i will have to go outside and will never get door to door service, nor would i want that.

Re: [Mpls] Transit Modes

2005-01-07 Thread Steve Nelson
David Greene wrote Umm...how long will it take to load each 4-person car and how long to account for deceleration/acceleration time? A nose-to-tail headway will not pass muster with NTSB. It would likely mandate a following distance similar to the recommendations for cars. With computer control

Re: [Mpls] Mpls Somali activist found guilty of immigration fraud

2005-01-08 Thread Steve Nelson
Greg Reinhardt Excelsior wrote Should the lies of a good man be forgiven while the lies of a bad man are fully prosecuted? Does a person's good' intentions trump the fact that one has uttered a lie, let alone five? It appears that if you lie big enough you get to be re-elected President. Of

Re: [Mpls] Transit Modes

2005-01-08 Thread Steve Nelson
Jim Mork Cooper Wrote Am I imagining it or is someone actually suggesting PRT can be door to door? I thought these pods were to be guided along rails raised above the streets. How can such a thing be anymore door to door than any other public mode of transit? I suggest you attend one of the open

Re: [Mpls] Our Police--An Encomium

2005-01-08 Thread Steve Nelson
Jim Mork Cooper wrote Sometimes I need a reminder of why I live here and not elsewhere. And the core reason is that here just has better people. Something about my city (and I've been here nearly 40 years so I can use the my legitimately) attracts and holds people with better minds and values

Re: [bcc][faked-from] [Mpls] Mpls Somali activist found guilty ofimmigration fraud

2005-01-08 Thread Steve Nelson
Jennifer Rubenzer Plymouth wrote There is no courage in lying! And I can't believe you would assert that there is! A lie is a cowards way of avoiding conflict and confrontation when they know they can't get the better of the situation. It's not the sign of a good man - it's the sign of a

Re: [Mpls] Mpls Government

2005-01-11 Thread Steve Nelson
Bernstein in conclusion wrote: So Vicki, go enjoy your independence, celebrate your freedom. Government will be there making sure you can do so! Johnson writes: Seems that Bernstein is crediting the government with maintaining the freedom and independence we have. I suppose that forgetting

Re: [Mpls] Nicollet Island - Park Land Transfer to DeLaSalle

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Nelson
Elizabeth Wielinski wrote: Gosh! The MPRB embroiled in another stadium scandal within 2 days. How do they manage? I agree with Emily that there are enough football fields in this town that the DeLaSalle team should be able to manage 4 games per year without any trouble. I grew up in

Re: [Mpls] The Island

2005-01-14 Thread Steve Nelson
be environmental issues on the BF Nelson site. Although probably the cheapest and best way to clean up that land is to add a foot of topsoil and use it for recreational purposes. So now Steve Nelson will throw in his two cents worth-- I agree with Emily that the Island site is too small for what

Re: [Mpls] Community Impact Statements for Basim Sabri

2005-01-15 Thread Steve Nelson
Chris, His sentence is going to be handed down in 30 days and I doubt very much that it will be 30 days. However, those who wish to make an impact statement to the Judge to help determine what that sentence will be--well, they have a 30 day sentence to do it! Steven M Nelson Willard Hay

[Mpls] Re: [StPaul] development at any cost

2005-01-22 Thread Steve Nelson
Dennis Tester Mac-Groveland wrote It's the Fox News model. Fox News grew as rapidly as it did, not because it's conservative, but because it's NOT LIBERAL. FOX News grew as rapidly as it did because it decided to give up news and pander to conservative values by producing glossy opinion pieces

Re: [Mpls] Council committee passes anti-idling ordinance

2005-02-05 Thread Steve Nelson
As a one time over the road trucker I couldn't agree with Dyna more. Well said, Dyna! Steven M Nelson Willard Hay http://citizenshipchronicles.blogspot.com/ Get UP! Get OUT! GET INVOLVED!!! Dyna Sluyter wrote I wrote Gary Schiff about the issue, and his attitude is essentially that truckers

Re: [Mpls] Caucus

2005-03-01 Thread Steve Nelson
Mike Nelson wrote I just came home from my precinct caucus. I seriously doubt I will be returning. When we were in the process of filling our allotted number of delegates,we had more volunteers than open positions. Someone made a suggestion regarding how we might eliminate some people. The

Re: [Mpls] Personal Rapid Transit

2005-03-04 Thread Steve Nelson
Thank you, David. I'm usually the one jumping on the PRT detractors but have been too busy this week to respond. You said it very well. Steven M Nelson Willard Hay http://citizenshipchronicles.blogspot.com/ http://minutemenworldwide.blogspot.com/ Get UP! Get OUT! GET INVOLVED!!! I agree with

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