T H E M I N N E A P O L I S O B S E R V E R A Weekly Digest of All Things Minneapolitan www.mplsobserver.com Vol. 2, No. 16 December 2, 2002
This is a preview issue of The Observer. To check out the real thing, visit our Web site (www.mplsobserver.com) and click on "sample copy". To subscribe ($12/yr.), just hit "reply" and we'll set you up. Thanks. ********************************************************** THIS WEEK IN THE OBSERVER: * Price Contemplating Run in Third Ward * Pawlenty May Reconsider Northstar Line * Foreign Students at U Scrambling to Comply with New Rules * A New Gang in Town? * Libraries Will Shorten Hours in 2003 * Cross-Country Ski Race Set for February Plus: The mayor's muffled ROAR, media soldiers, the language of LRT, tied up at Ground Zero, standing up for Somalis, and how to eat a tamale. ********************************************************** PRICE CONTEMPLATING RUN IN THIRD WARD Community activist and Green Party candidate Brother Shane Price says he will probably run in the December 30 runoff election for the Third Ward City Council seat vacated by Joe Biernat. Price, who finished second to Biernat in last November's election, told One Nation News (www.onenationnews.com) he was not concerned about published reports claiming that a minority candidate (Price is African American) could not win the race. "Urban whites have to stop seeing themselves [as different] from urban blacks who have the same values," Price says. "Both work hard, pay taxes, and raise families. Yet urban whites tend to keep thinking it's always a white person who is going to save them. We have to get them behind an issue or righteous cause, as opposed to getting behind skin color." He will, however, have to raise some cash and scale back his current commitment to Hennepin County's African American Men Project. And he will have to motivate black voters to come to the polls. "I've got to ask myself if the people on the west side of the river are going to come out," he says. "I'm there with them when there is a problem with the schools. I'm there with them when there's a problem with the police. But, when it comes time to vote, the community usually forgets." If he chooses to run, Price could face a crowded field that may include DFLers Diane Hofstede, a member of the Library Board; Kari Dziedzic, chair of the city's charter commission and daughter of former council member Walt Dziedzic; and Michael Rainville, advertising sales director of the Greater Minneapolis Convention and Visitors Association and cousin of Fourth Ward Council Member Barbara Johnson. Independent Valdis Rosentals, a historic-renovation designer, has also indicated he would run. PAWLENTY WILLING TO RECONSIDER NORTHSTAR LINE Governor-elect Tim Pawlenty may be softening his opposition to the proposed Northstar Commuter Rail line. FOREIGN STUDENTS SCRAMBLING TO COMPLY WITH NEW IMMIGRATION RULES The War on Terror continues to hit home at the University of Minnesota, where international students and their advisers are scrambling to comply with new federal monitoring requirements. THERE'S A NEW GANG IN TOWN Minneapolis police have their eyes on a new collection of young thugs that may or may not yet constitute a gang--but are causing plenty of havoc on the Southside. ********************************************************** The Minneapolis Observer is published 48 times/year by Independent Media, L.L.C. �2002 Independent Media, 4152 Snelling Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55406; www.mplsobserver.com. No part of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Independent Media. Subscriptions: $12/yr. To unsubscribe, send us an e-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and we'll get you off the list and refund the unused portion of your subscription. Editor: Craig Cox Deputy Assistant Senior Executive Editor: Sharon Parker Contributing writers: Chris Dodge, Leo Mezzrow Online technical assistance: Christopher Pollard Equine consultant and correspondent: Nora Cox Perspective: Martin Cox ******************************************************* Fight media consolidation! Support the independent press! Pick up your neighborhood newspaper! ******************************************************* _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
