Neal St. Anthony is a breath of fresh journalistic air coming from the mouth of an often in the past toothless giant, the StarTribune, in it's coverage of City Hall, MCDA, etc shenanigans. The most they have seemed willing to do is quote the ever quotable Lisa McDonald (do they teach sound byte production somewhere) to make a point they have seemed unwilling to commit to editorially. I was grateful to see the STRIB editorial urging Z&P postpone the sale of property on the riverfront to Ryan. A StarTribune editorial works like high beams on a deer in the road when it comes to the City Council. The article in the Strib's metro section talking about the LRT crossing of Lake Street was unflattering to Ted Mondale and the Met Council which basically got caught with their pants down. So not only have the people of Phillips, Longfellow and Seward, not to mention all citizens of the city who travel about, have the least amount of aesthetic value, and can see beyond their parochial noses to the overall good, been screwed by MnDot which reneged on a plan to sink Hiawatha at Lake Street, now the Met Council is trying to set the city of Minneapolis up to pay the cost of building a bridge for LRT that will not blight the neighborhood. Oh this is great! I've never liked LRT and nothing the Met Council has done since it was first announced has helped to raise my comfort level. I try, god knows I try, to be positive, but this is a major trainwreck (excuse the chiched metaphor, once again I could not help myself) about to happen. Cheers Tim Connolly Ward 7 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
