I am quite convinced that is good policy to not name things after people who are still alive.
Dean Zimmermann Mpls City Council - Ward 6 673-2206 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 11:24 AM Subject: [Mpls] "Sharon Sayles Belton Free-way"/Take a Ride > 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 _______________________________________ 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
