R.T. lead off his victory speech last night with his plans
for the Northside, threatening to rebuild Broadway with the same
gentrifying lack of vision we have seen on the southside, and invoke
the Upper River Master Plan that will drive what jobs we have left to
the suburbs and beyond.
Now we Northsiders are not "ill-bred", and can rebuild our
Northside ourselves with a little police presence so we don't get
shot while fixing up our modest hovels; and without assistance from
R.T. and his developer friends. But a 2nd term Minneapolis mayor who
has probably reached the pinnacle of his political career is more
likely to favor big developers who offer future executive employment
than the allegedly "ill-bred" Northsiders who voted against him.
Granted, this is all a major undertaking from a mayor who couldn't
keep Northsiders engaging in "high risk" activities like running a
flower shop or convenience store from getting shot and killed... but
hey, bring in some money from the big developers and the bulldozers
will roll right over the Northside....
So with R.T.'s reelection, Northsider's choices have changed.
Should we sell now or wait for the city's condemnation offer? Or
should we get ready to sit down in front of the bulldozers? And given
that the corn stove I'd tried to pull a permit for wouldn't even fill
the bucket of the backhoe R.T.'s developer friends would send to tear
down my family homestead, should I even bother fighting for the right
to heat with renewables in Sierra Club endoresed mayor R.T.'s
Minneapolis?
holdin' up gentrification in Hawthorne,
Dyna Sluyter
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