Other then being "...the first woman, and first black to be the city's mayor.(Strib)", I doubt that Natalie Johnson Lee has much warrant, or will, to commend the record of Sharon Sayles Belton.
Saturday's Strib reveals the opinions of CM Johnson Lee and CM Goodman regarding an appropriate name for the new roadway bisecting Heritage Place Development; a roadway that will help create North-South access for our City and it's residents. I tend to cautiously agree with CM Goodman that SSB's name should not be on that roadway although my conclusion was reached from my own logic. This new roadway will help reconnect our Near Northside's main commercial corridor, West Broadway Av. North, with the rest of the City. As that occurs, the whole North West quadrant of our City will benefit. During the previous regime, the Mayor, along with her boss, Jackie Cherryhomes, were well known by many to ignore and disdain our humble "Mainstreet". From years of personal observation, I had concluded that the former Mayor made one visit a year to West Bro. and that was to march in a parade. Thanx, but no nurturing sustenance, or substance, given or received! I propose that a corridor be named the "SSB Free-way". I cannot highlight the exact route but I would suggest it begin at the MPS Central Administrative building, on Lowry NE near Central Ave. This is where SSB's husband garnered 90 thousand a year, and a cool car, for being a "Diversity Consultant(?)". He is in a position to help remediate those public school children made homeless, or hypermobile, by his wife's homewrecking policies. Or at least give them a ride down the "SSB Free-way" in a cool car. The other terminus of the "SSB Free-way" should certainly be at the U. of M.'s Humphrey Institute. This is where SSB collects her money now. I can only imagine that deep research is occurring there to justify a city's huge bond debt for boondoggles, and the homelessness of a city's poorer population. Keith Reitman Roll up the windows and lock the doors NearNorth _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
