I am from the Cooper neighborhood which is within the Longfellow Community. Some out-of-towners may not really relate to these neighborhood designations. They may not know there is a Longfellow neighborhood that falls within the Longfellow Community, and it is different from Cooper. Anyway, Freenet used to have a nice interactive map to show where all the communities and neighborhoods of Minneapolis are. The one I found won�t zoom in and out. Maybe someone has a URL for that type of map, but till then, here�s one you can at least use for relative location:
http://www.pnn.org/media/mplsmap.htm Here�s a page with links to all the community assocations: http://www.minneapolis.com/community/ Here�s a really cool site that lets you click on a city map and get a page for each neighborhood. http://www.nrp.org/R2/Neighborhoods/Orgs/Organizations.html You can get a much longer list with a Google search on �Minneapolis neighborhoods�. This is a short sample. Barbara L. Nelson:� What the voters said was that they didn't want the city to spend more than $10 million on getting a new stadium. That's not the same as not wanting a stadium built in Minneapolis, if a stadium is going to be built somewhere. As RT said last night, (paraphrasing) it will be millions less expensive to build a stadium in Minneapolis because other sites will have infrastructure costs, and in Minneapolis the infrastructure is already in place. If a stadium bill passes, all things being equal, wouldn't we rather have the spending and the jobs in Minneapolis? Moreover, don't we want to be conservative with the public purse? � Uh, whatever Rybak claims, it is not necessarily cheaper. The opportunity cost for downtown land is exorbitant. And the answer to �wouldn�t we rather have the spending and the jobs in Minneapolis� depends on whose money is being spent. We have budget problems at every level of government. And we have priorities that far outrank stadiums. And, frankly, with the level of existing traffic problems we�ve been discussing, having to deal with sports traffic downtown is not what I long for. I happened to work down there and contend with traffic letting out for games. It made it very hard to make it to work on time, and sometimes I forgot there was a game last night. I�d like to see all sports facilities built where they don�t exacerbate existing traffic problems. Vicky: �Last year, handouts from federal, state, and county coffers paid to Minneapolis totaled $187,839,000. It's a darn good thing too - because YOU VOTERS spent $542,590,000 despite the fact that you only collected $306,027,000.� No we didn�t. But a clique of people cozy with business (cozy with you?) kept on giving handouts to them over the years. Ultimately, WE VOTERS got a belly-full of them and cleaned them out. As a result, this year�s council is a bit more circumspect. But the inescapable facts is that YOU BUSINESS OWNERS have transferred a whopping amount of taxes to WE RESIDENCE OWNERS. (Get your facts straight before you post, please). �Rybak, a former reporter with the Star Tribune, is the only one of the four candidates to call for changes in the city's campaign finance rules and has not taken campaign funds from firms doing business with the city as a way, he says, to limit corporate influence� http://news.mpr.org/features/200109/07_hughesa_finances/ At this site is data on the last tax law and what is going to happen to residential and property taxes under the law. When it is fully phased in, average home rates will be up 12 % and average business payments will be down 18 %. This of course offsets the total loss of tax-increment funding that cities used to lure business. But for business, this is an even greater triumph because you don�t have to build anything to get it. http://www.mncn.org/bp/TFv3n4.pdf Ken Avidor:� It's the same with politicians. On their brochures, they're on a bike or walking ...not talking on a cell-phone in a SUV. When they get elected, however they get "realistic" and vote for parking lots and ramps and big highway projects like the 35W Access Project. � It�s a representative government where car activists badly outnumber bike activists. As a car driver, I�m all for getting as many on two wheels as possible. But I know from many discussions that I�ve had, the car drivers generally are rabid about more highway capacity. Any elected official fights that at great peril. Tim Bonham: �I suppose these candidates could argue that it is technically true that they are "not seeking endorsements" right now; all the endorsements have been given by now, and they didn't get any! � True. The savvy thing to say would have been �no comment�. Keith Reitman: �Keith says; I am so grateful Mr. Mork is offering us a web site where all our comments will be edited by him to 'suggest alternate wording before posting' � Not original for moderated forums. I don�t kick people off. I simply don�t post things that are against the rules. And the rules are very, very few. But stated at the outset so people don�t get surprised. Jim Mork, Cooper Neighborhood (of Longfellow Community) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com _______________________________________ 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
