During the Reagan years, the feds pulled back from the housing support they had
given. Subsequent congresses have done more of the ame. Where once there was a
$40,000 subsidy/unit to make building for the lowest income levels, there is now
virtually nothing to subsidize with. I think the whole
Just 10% difference for may in the last election. Interesting.
I would like to see the Green Party run a mayoral candidate, and get enuf
votes (5%, 10%) to motivate the DFL into a rapid push for IRV (Instant
Runoff Voting) where the second choice votes of Greens would go (mostly)
for the DFL.
Th
So what are the chances the DFL would endorse the Green candidate for
council or mayor etc and NOT run their own DFL candidate? Who can imagine
that they would tell the next up-and-coming local hero that he could not
run because the DFL was going to endorse the Green candidate, thus almost
guarant
Our love affair with the car is much more firmly entrenched
in Minnesota than it has been anywhere else where I've lived
where there was anything like public transit to rely on.
I've got a real low tollerance of driving a long distance to
work. I live 5 minutes from my job. I love driving big
eq
Thanks for clearing things up Jordan.
The message was a little surprising to me.
I do apologize for passing on misleading info to the group.
Cam
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Jordan S. Kushner" writes:
> This below message about the Hard TImes Cafe hearing is really not accuratet.
> The C
I had written earlier that we could not build enough highways to solve
congestion. Someone challenged that assertion and asked for some facts.
This is such a tenent of transportation planning that the folks that I asked
were a bit thrown by the question. But they were able to give me a real
live
This below message about the Hard TImes Cafe hearing is really not accuratet.
The City Council is not holding any hearing on the Hard Times Cafe; it already
took final action to revoke its licenses in June, 2000. The legality of the
City's action has been challenged in court. The matter is now b
I lived in San Francisco for a year in the late 80's.
I believe at that time the population in the city was
around 350,000. However, 3.5 million commuters came to
and from the city every day to work.
Driving to and from the city was an absolute nite mare
and often times people had 2 1/2 hour co
I have worked on graffiti issues for the past three years. As I have seen
in previous postings, many people are aware that the city's efforts have had
many structural impediments and problems. I am a member of the Mayor's
Graffiti Task Force, member of the Seward Neighborhood Group board, and
For those interested in helping.
Forwarded by Cam Gordon on behalf of Drew Hempel
From: Drew W Hempel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:31:27 -0600
On January 31st the Mpls. City Council will convene their final step (a
"hearing") in their blatant attack
The Green Party in Minneapolis has a long history of working with individuals
from other groups and other political parties including Progressive Minnesota,
Reform, Grassroots, Independence as well the DFlers and Republicans. We have
certainly had members from all parties working on a number of
I seem to have found that button that makes big chunks of the list stand up
and all agree with each other that roads are bad. I only see roads as a way
to support a robust economy and nothing more. I do not want Minneapolis to
become the sunken center of an economic atoll. So let's go forward a
Here is my periodic plea to eliminate extraneous lines from your reply
posts. Those of us who get the digest version nearly run our wrists off the
mouse pad scrolling through line after line of duplicated posts. Find the
delete key. It is your/my friend.
Fran Guminga
Bottineau, Ward 3
* * * * * *
To repeat an oft quoted wag on the subject of transportation planning - "solving
congestion by buiding bigger highways is like trying to cure obesity by loosening
your belt."
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Whining about the damage done by auto traffic,
> >concrete, oil companies, destruction of the
Hello List,
Thought I'd post a Mpls centered version of what we
recently posted to ROAR's mailing list. There is a lot of airport stuff
going on right now, especially in this election year for Minneapolis . . .
. It would be nice to see some candidate reactions to some of this
informati
Below is a news release from the Minneapolis Community Development Agency.
I apologize for the two-day delay in posting this release.
The Minneapolis Issues Forum is in the MCDA distribution database and we
general post news releases on the day of release.
In this case, however, I neglected to ch
>Whining about the damage done by auto traffic,
>concrete, oil companies, destruction of the universe, etc. doesn't change
history.
No it doesn't change history, but that's not the point.
I have a question for everyone. Where does it end? Or if you don't like that
question, Where is all thi
Rich apparently doesn't believe me. In my work, I quite often traverse the
entire metro area. For years I have commuted to Minneapolis and St. Paul
-- working downtown and then for the Mpls Public Housing Authortiy.
I like Mpls, my family roots are there, I have numeous business relations
ther
1997 City General Election results:
SSB 52,222 54.66%
Carson 42,530 44.51
Write-ins 794.83
Annie Young
Ward 6 - East Phillips in Minneapolis
Citywide at-large Park Board Commissioner
Working to build a sustainable comm
In a very astute use of the Web, startribune.com has included audio from the
morning's Senate transportation Crosstown hearing:
http://www.startribune.com/st/qview.cgi?slug=crosaud18&template=metro_a_cach
e
(Can also currently be found at http://www.startribune.com home page)
David Brauer
List
> I don't want anyone to believe that my suggestion for adding lanes is d=
> ue
> to the fact that my commute to Minneapolis from Hastings is taking long=
> er.
Ok - if you say so...
> <...snip...> Whining about the damage done by auto traff=
> ic,
> concrete, oil companies, destruction of the
on 1/18/01 2:06 AM, David Shove at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Doubtless we will now hear from the liberals that told us to vote Gore not
>Nader, because president is too important. Now they will tell us to vote
>DFL not Green because mayor is too important.
-- AND --
on 1/18/01 10:26 AM, Lynnell
--- Barbara Lickness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Expand the freeway?
>
> And, just how many houses and businesses are we
> supposed to sacrifice so people can live in
> Farmington, Princeton, and the rest of the places
> they call God's country?
We're getting near 3 million people in the me
Buck's work on the listed issues will be watched very carefully. Especially
if he's looking to run for Secretary of State in 2002, as appears to be the
case.
Andy Driscoll
--
"Whatever keeps you from your work is your work."
Albert C
I don't want anyone to believe that my suggestion for adding lanes is due
to the fact that my commute to Minneapolis from Hastings is taking longer.
There has been very little real job growth in both downtowns over the past
20 years. Yes, the increase has been huge, but as a percentage of the
Lynnell asks:
>Does anyone remember the final percentage
>differences between Barbara Carlson and Sharon Sayles Belton?
As I recall, Sharon won, 55 percent to 45 percent. That was a lot closer
than people thought.
David Brauer
Kingfield - Ward 10
___
For the record, the post-election mess in Florida PLUS the
Democrats totally gutless reaction to it PLUS the likes of Wellstone
and Russ Feingold saying they may vote for Ashcroft has made
me---Resident List Critic of the Greens and The Notorious Bitch Who
Shut The Door On That Poor C
See:
http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?story=83365169
Buck Humphrey takes job with Sayles Belton's office
Rochelle Olson Star Tribune Thursday, January 18, 2001
Hubert (Buck) Humphrey IV, scion of the state's dominant political
family, will begin work next month a
This is NOT an issue of "purity". The Dems nationally, and the DFL
locally, have shown by long history, especially in the last 20 years or
so, that they do not and sill not deal with most progressive issues. They
say nothing.They leave the issues undiscussed, unremedied.
It's easy to see why. The
Rosalind Nelson wrote,
> As one person, I intend to support condidates and vote based on their
> positions on TIF, the police, affordable housing and so forth, not necessarily
> on party affiliation.
I agree with Rosalind. I am excited about the Green presence because they
have positions similar
As one person, I intend to support condidates and vote based on their
positions on TIF, the police, affordable housing and so forth, not
necessarily on party affiliation.
I've been very excited about the Green presence in city politics, and I
hope that the Green influence isn't going to be frit
The Minneapolis/5th District Green Party is the local endorsing body for
Minneapolis GP candidates. At our last membership meeting on January 6 we
agreed that we would meet bimonthly throughout 2001, and that candidates
could be considered for endorsement at any of these meetings as long as the
The two biggest reasons, in my estimation, for not widening any freeways are first,
that oil is not a renewable energy source and when it runs so low that most people
will not be able to afford it, we'll be stuck with a zillion miles of road and a
miniscule number of cars on it owned and operat
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