Link to Star Tribune story: http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/3650517.html
also quotes from Don Samuels speech. The arts are alive and well in Northeast. "We must support the grassroots initiatives of the arts community, the creative heart of our city. We declare the third ward a Mecca for the Arts. Our Arts District is not a three-day fair. It is a permanent home for the arts, where generations of artists will be born, trained and sustained. Let our children see the option of the arts as more than the prerogative of the privileged few, as accessible to all who have talent and wish to share their genius. Let the arts community become an irresistible draw to the city and state and to nation whose heart has been hardened by numbing pop culture and frigid utilitarianism. Let our esthetic heart beat again. Let us take time to see beauty, and consume it. Let us develop a sales tax category for artists that allow them to keep more of what they earn and real estate tax incentives that allow artist to stay in the area that they have revitalized." Mark Wilde Windom Park __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ 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
