Russell and list: Reporters get to go on vacation once in awhile, including Robyn Repya. We - and indeed no journalists - don't get to every meeting (and the Journal goes to A LOT of them, including many Lake St. and 35W PAC meetings).
So every once in awhile, you have to do a story by calling around. Especially for a meeting where the PAC group didn't even make a final decision on an advisory opinion about Lake Street's parking configuration. As I posted to the list some months ago, we've done quite a few stories on the Lake Street and 35W PAC processes, including STRIDE's complaints about Smith Parker. I believe this was the third story we've done on 35W or Lake Street processes in our last three issues. We've made a conscious effort to include STRIDE representatives in local transportation stories - Jeff Carlson has been quoted numerous times. Also FYI - there are 26 Journals every year. In 2003, two covers have been about Lake Street and the 35W processes - one a profile of Smith-Parker's Tom Johnson and the other in which we went up and down Lake Street interviewing people on what they wanted to see in the future streetscape. Information from both stories has been featured on STRIDE's Web site. I'm glad Russell agrees our story was accurate and fair, if not exactly what he and Ken Avidor (who talked to Robyn yesterday) want. (Ken wrote me to complain that Jeff Carlson's guitar playing wasn't mentioned in the story - alas, a casualty of not having been there, and something I viewed as not essential news...my editorial choice.) As for my larger editorial choices bullying is increasingly being viewed as a major mental health problem that surveys say affect somewhere between 8 and 15 percent of school kids. Minneapolis Schools have a relatively new districtwide response to it, and we wanted to see how it worked. Check it out; lots of good interviews with kids affected. David Brauer Kingfield Editor, SW Journal and Skyway News REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
