> Back on 9/28 Jim Graham wrote, "Minneapolis voters
> need to remember that
> this is not a new "Issue". The attack upon
> "Neighborhoods" and NRP began
> almost as soon as the present people were elected to
> office...This
> independent funding empowered neighborhood
> residents, who in an organized
> form became viewed by the power brokers as an
> intolerable competition...The
> first big attack on Neighborhoods was to attempt to
> kill their
> funding...Next came the attempt by "front" people
> for the politicians to say
> official Neighborhood Organizations were only ONE of
> several organizations
> and "Interest groups" serving a "community", and
> suggesting that as such
> elected neighborhood board's input was only a small
> part of the
> consideration."
>
I think it's nonsense to say that those who question
the black hole otherwise known as NRP as "attacking
the neighborhoods".
Eva Young
Near North
Eva Young
Near North
Minneapolis
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