Good response. Her attitude reminds me of the old "Love it 0r Leave" crap
from the Sixties.
This town has tremendous unused talent. The tendency seems to be to always
go for what is safe. I sometimes think we wshould ask the development team
from 3M to trade places with our stable of government officials for a year.
Then we would see some real innovation.
You're a designer and see the world in terms of potential. I think most
people see their little corners of this city as static and are very
disturbed when their vision is threatened. Yet, when you look at the stats,
Minneapolis falls squarely in the middle of the lists of most cities its
size in terms of quality of life measures and has some very serious
deficiencies -- are at the bottom of the lists -- in terms of what I would
call moral issues like racism and health care delivery to the poor. De Nile
runs right alongside de Mississippi in this stretch of te river.
But the activist community hasn't much tooffer, either. They seem to follow
thier middle-class fellows when it comes to following fads and uncreative
non-thinking. It seems to be a matter of the blind leading the bland: Those
with no vision leading a people who could care less about vision as long as
they have their cushy corporate jobs.
Anyway, Right on! :-)
Dave Dix
Ward 6
Minneapolis always seesm totrail other cities as if it were
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Wayne Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 6:20 PM
Subject: RE: traffic congestion
> O.k., Karen I have to respond to this one. I believe there is a culture
in
> this city that exists that throws me for a loop almost daily. You just
> defined it with your post. It is: "If you don't like it here the way it
> is, too bad because we're great, so you should just move somewhere else."
> What kind of an attitude is that anyway. Just because somebody wants to
> make something better doesn't mean they deserve that kind of treatment -
> really, just tell them to move somewhere else?? That's real inclusion!!!
>
> Tim is right in many respects. We have failed in transportation and
> infrastructure in our city. Many would believe we've failed at finance as
> well. Our City Coordinator's answers in the Strib to the problems with
> traffic downtown were unacceptable. She basically said that's just the
way
> it is and we have to live with it. Well it isn't just the way it is.
There
> are a multitude of planning, licensing, monitoring, work hour controls,
etc.
> that can avoid that kind of problem. And just because one can't manage it
> doesn't mean that's just the way it should be. And to top it off the City
> Council commissioned a 90 day study. What a fiasco. In 90 days entirely
> different dynamic problem will exist. They should have put a dozen people
> on it and had an answer back in 10 days. As a city we can be better and
we
> should try.
>
> Finally, if we have people who believe it's great the way it is and
nothing
> can change the problems we have, then they should move aside and let
> somebody else try. Some of us believe that there is always a better way,
but
> we would never say to those who disagree with us that they should move to
> another city ;-)
>
> P.S. To those of you who read about Heidi Heitkamp, the Democrat running
for
> the governor of North Dakota who was just diagnosed with Breast Cancer, I
> would appreciate your thoughts of healing for her. She is from my home
town
> and a friend of my family. Thank you.
>
> Russ Peterson
> Ward 9
> Standish
>
>
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> "You can only fly if you stretch your wings."
>
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