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Does anyone know what the rules are concerning law
signs in the yards of multi-unit buildings? Does a tenant have to get the
permission of the landlord in order to have a lawn sign placed in the front
yard?
Anyone who can answer that question will be greatly
appreciated.
-Brandon Lacy Campos
-Powderhorn Park
9-4
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lawnsigns are hot off the press...if you are a supporter of Patrick and are
willing to demonstrate your support to your friends and neighbors...please email
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W. Brandon Lacy Campos
Community
Liaison
Minnesota Men of Color
612-871-1788 x 13
"No odies a tu enemigo, porque si lo haces
eres de alguna manera su
esclavo;
tu odio nunca sera mejor que tu paz." Jorge Borges
--Jorge
Borges
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Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 8:13
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Subject: [Mpls] This Week in The
Minneapolis Observer
T H E M I N N E A P O L I S O B S E R V E R
Vol. 1, No.
6
September 17,
2001
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THIS
WEEK IN THE OBSERVER:
* Reason for Hope in a Crazy World
* Parents
Search for Options in the Wake of School Closings
* Decor Wars at City
Hall
* The Brooklyn Center Twins?
* The Latest Poop on SW Dog Parks
*
Child Abduction Scare on the North Side
* Local Wackos Threaten
Muslims
* Plus: Homeschooled populists, Planting a peace garden, beefing up
security for U president, the city's best murals, and America at war with
itself.
(This is a preview edition of The Minneapolis Observer. To
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REASON
FOR HOPE IN A CRAZY WORLD
In Tuesday's mayoral election, Mahamoud Wardere
outpolled Larry Leininger of the White Working Man's Party 160 to
78.
PARENTS SEARCH FOR OPTIONS IN WAKE OF SCHOOL CLOSINGS
Last
month's announcement by Minneapolis school officials that the district would
close six schools after this year to cut costs has sent scores of parents
across the city scurrying for options. At Bottineau Early Education Center in
Northeast Minneapolis, parents want to transfer their program to a nearby
school, against the district's wishes.
HOMESCHOOLING AS POPULIST
REVOLUTION
Controversial educator and critic of compulsory schooling John
Taylor Gatto got in a car in war-torn New York last week and drove to
Minneapolis to address some 300 homeschoolers at a conference of the Minnesota
Homeschoolers' Alliance. In an address at the University of Minnesota Law
School on Saturday, Gatto declared that "Homeschooling is the greatest
populist revolution in American history."
PLEA BARGAIN
The
forward-thinking editors at Property, the monthly newspaper of local
commercial property owners, have come up with an innovative take on the Brian
Herron/Basim Sabri case: If Sabri is convicted of bribery, Herron should serve
the time.
AND WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, WOULD YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT THOSE
SHOES?
With scandal and electoral chaos swirling through City Hall, City
Council president Jackie Cherryhomes and vice president Joe Biernat have
stepped forward to issue a bold new directive on . . . office decor.
40TH STREET GREENWAY TAKING SHAPE
The proposed greenway designed to
connect bicyclists from Kingfield to the river has been presented to the
affected neighborhoods for their review.
BROOKLYN CENTER JOINS TWINS
BALLPARK DEBATE
Officials in the northwest suburb of Brooklyn Center are
floating a proposal for a 40,000-seat baseball stadium as part of a central
business district redevelopment plan, reports City Business
(www.citybusiness.com).
SOUTHWEST DOG PARK INITIATIVE FLAGGING
Park
Board plans for siting a new off-leash area for dogs in Southwest Minneapolis
have bogged down for lack of input by--you guessed it--non-dog lovers.
MORE SECURITY FOR U PRESIDENT
Responding to last week's terrorists
attacks, the University of Minnesota Board of Regents Thursday approved a
$120,000 allocation to beef up security around Eastcliff, residence of
university president Mark Yudof, according to The Minnesota Daily
(www.mndaily.com).
BENEFIT FOR KEVIN KLING
While actor/playwright
Kevin Kling continues to recover from injuries suffered in a recent motorcycle
accident, Frank Theater and director Wendy Knox are holding a Sept. 30 benefit
performance of Bertold Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Tickets are
$25. Call 724-3760 for more information.
THE BIG PICTURE
The city's
best murals, in no particular order, according to City Pages:
* La Llorna,
810 E. Franklin
* We Claim Our Lives, 10th Ave. S. and E. Franklin
*
Peacemaker Center, 2300 Cedar Ave. S.
* Kemps/Marigold Building, 340 W.
Broadway
* Untitled, 1890 Glenwood Ave. N.
* U Otter Stop Inn, 617
Central Ave. NE
* Celebration of Life, Olson Memorial Highway and Lyndale
Ave. N.
* Garfield Aquarium, Fresh Fish, 3325 Garfield Ave. S.
* Merit
Graffiti Mural, Merit Printing, 117 N. Second St.
* Pillsbury House Mural,
Pillsbury House, 3500 Chicago Ave. S.
* Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave.
S.
* Life Force, 1889 Glenwood Ave. N.
* Crossroads, 3013 Lyndale Ave.
S.
WACKOS FOREVER
On Wednesday my kids and I ate lunch at the
Crescent Moon bakery and caf� on Central Avenue NE. We admired the interior
decor modeled after a courtyard in Afghanistan and listened to the cheerful
singing of a small white bird in a cage as I read a pamphlet about Islam and
we ate our gyros and hallal pizzas. I was concerned about a possible backlash
against our Mulsim immigrants and asked the man behind the counter if he had
received any threats or negative comments since the dreadful incidents of the
day before. "Only a couple of calls from wackos," he replied. "There are
always the wackos."
-Sharon Parker
MORE OBSERVING
We are
heartened to learn of a new free weekly poking its head out of the University
of Minnesota campus. The Campus Observer launched its premier issue Sept. 10
with news, analysis, a photo of a newly collapsed ceiling in Northrop
Auditorium, and--gulp--no ads. Though no relative of this e-rag, we wish
publisher/executive editor Bryan Anthony Keogh and his staff a long and
prosperous publishing life.
DOWNTOWN PRAYER SERVICES SET IN RESPONSE TO
TERRORIST ATTACK
Downtown churches will hold worship services every day
this week for parishoners coping with the cataclysmic events of last week. The
schedule:
Monday, Sept. 17
12 noon: Cathedral Church of St. Mark
6
p.m.: Basilica of St. Mary
Tuesday, Sept. 18
12 noon: Augustana
Lutheran Church
6 p.m.: Church of Gethsemane
Wednesday, Sept.
19
12 noon: Westminster Presbyterian Church
6 p.m.: First Unitarian
Society of Minnesota
Thursday, Sept. 20
12 noon: Wesley United
Methodist Church
6 p.m.: Plymouth Congregational Church
Friday,
Sept. 21
12 noon: Central Lutheran Church
6 p.m.: Hennepin Avenue United
Methodist Church
POLICE BLOTTER
North Minneapolis:
Two recent
incidents of a stranger approaching young boys, the first on Aug. 19, when a
9-year-old boy was grabbed from behind at the insection of 6th St. and 52nd
Ave. N. and forced beneath a nearby pine tree. The suspect threatened the boy,
then gave him $10 and let him go. The boy was unhurt. The suspect was
described as a white male, 35-45 years old, with a medium build, collar-length
brown hair, balding, with a mustache and beard. He was wearing a short-sleeved
shirt and blue shorts.
On Sept. 3 around 3:30 p.m., three boys were lured
under the 49th Ave. bridge over Shingle Creek. The suspect offered $120 to any
of them who would pull down their pants. The suspect fled between two
apartment buildings at 49th and Knox. The suspect was described as a white
male, 35-40 years old, 5-10 or 5-11, with medium build and short brown
straight hair and a goatee. He was wearing a white T-shirt and green
shorts.
AN EIGHTH OF AN ACRE: PLANTING A PEACE GARDEN
By Sharon
Parker
I ordered bulbs from a Connecticut nursery to plant this fall. They
haven't arrived yet. I expect they were to be shipped by air and will be
delayed a bit. I can wait. As I wait I am thinking about the bulbs I ordered
and realize that they will take on a different meaning for me than they had
when I ordered them. My children and I will plant them in remembrance of
September 11, 2001, a date which I told my son and daughter they will never
forget.
BACK IN THE DAY
"It's like the high school I went to. It has
the same thoughtful atmosphere."
--Visitor at the open house celebrating
the completion of the Lowry Hill tunnel
Minneapolis Star
September 23,
1971
IT'S JUST MY OPINION, BUT . . .
In the wake of last
Tuesday's catastrophe, there is now a certain consensus gathering behind the
notion of waging an all-out war on terrorism, a campaign designed to eradicate
Osama bin Laden and his ilk by placing pressure on those countries that
support and harbor them. Certainly this approach has some merit, but like
America's spectacularly flawed war on drugs, this sweeping attack on bad guys
and their offenses against civilization will do little to address the core
reasons why terrorism exists in the world.
To do that would mean the
U.S.-and much of the Western world-would have to set about reassessing pretty
much everything they believe in: stuff like progress, modernity, independence,
the pursuit of happiness. These are the ideas we live by, the products we
export happily to the so-called developing world in the
not-altogether-misguided notion that if it works so well for us, why won't it
work for everyone else. It's why Baywatch is the most watched TV show on the
planet, why the McDonald's in Moscow is the busiest fast food joint in the
world. It is our great gift to civilization-and part of the reason so many
people around the globe hate us with such intensity.
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Editor: Craig
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Contributing writers: Mark Engebretson, Leo Mezzrow, Sharon Parker.
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