Issue: Market BBQ Story Boy, I had in mind to try the Market BBQ sometime because it is the granddaddy of all the restaurants of its kind. But this story really made me wonder. Now, it could be a particularly unfortunate management employee. The best places do have that experience, at least for a short while. The owners should be advised of the incident, and then see what happens. As to the police,well, they wander into the middle of such a brouhaha and common sense SHOULD tell them "don't take a side, just figure out how to keep things cool", but then again you have an INDIVIDUAL on the police force, and once again it is the luck of the draw. Maybe this manager knows who is on duty in his precinct and figures this guy shares his biases. I don't know.
Sure is hard when you weren't there. Probably never get a story that everybody agrees on. I hope the family got some of the names of the onlookers. That might tip the balance. If everything is as told, it sure disappoints me in some of the people of my city. We should have matured WAY past what was described. Issue: Library Budget I like the idea of keeping all libraries that have a reasonable future open with shortened hours. Lengthening hours is the easiest thing to do when the budget picture improves. Given the assumption we aren't raising taxes beyond the 8 percent, something has to go, and the most elastic thing is the open hours. Bookmobile customers adjust to even shorter hours than these. And patrons of the library will adjust for the time being. The school functions the library was trying to adopt are a nicety, and they are well worth restoring when the finances permit, but they are the easiest to shed at this time. One wonders why the schools, for whom these functions are more central, hadn't taken them on, but I suppose that was money, too. Perhaps there is something the schools are doing that is less critical than these functions. That is for the school board to consider. And always remember, it is the sour economy that is the root cause of all this. Perhaps someday, we'll wake up to realize the tax cuts aren't really getting at the problem. Then, will be the time when we can consider undoing some of this. ===== Jim Mork Cooper Neighborhood Longfellow Community Minneapolis A great town, which can and WILL BE greater! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ 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
