Excellent, Mike, excellent! Thank you. And thanks too to Vicky Heller. I wish our newspapers and political party (there seems only to be one, like on the School Board) would be looking at the record and making it available to us (and not in a two year old archive that is not freely accessible from the web).
Though its not as though even with information we will get much bang for our tax bucks. Accountability apparently is thought to be mean-spirited. I appreciate people like Mike and Vicky who do lots of research and writing to keep us informed. And Keith R who fills us in on info about North Side land use abuses by previous Councils. BTW, I can see an independent thinker can't get union support in this town. I'm sure Mike's criticism of the "Head's I win, Tails you lose" approach to city pensions will win him no friends or endorsements in the L part of the DFL. Or the other parts of the DFL as well, because they seem more interested in each getting their own respective spoils than looking out for the public interest. (Where is that, anyway. I had it around here beore, but I can't seem to find it now.) BTW, Mike mentioned a story that was in the South West Journal, a paper that seems to no longer be available in Downtown. If that paper has in-depth city budget stories I wish that either the Skyway Journal would carry them or that the SWJ be distributed here. (Please, no one get defensive here. I may have missed the story in Skyway Jrl because I was out of town Sept 12-17.) Alan Shilepsky Downtown _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
