What is the penalty for someone with a conceal-carry permit entering a
private establishment with a posted sign? With or without a verbal
notification? --assuming the concealed weapon is 'seen' and ignored. A
misdemeanor fine? Is the weapon confiscated? How effective will such
Cub Foods in Northeast?
What the heck do we need with another overgrown big box grocer in northeast?
We have two Rainbows (Quarry Central) and a Cub (Apache) nearby.
If this is such a needed thing then I would think Cub and its mega parent
company could food the bill and do it themselves, with
What a surprise.
How many times does Minneapolis have to get ripped off before we
figure out that we're the CHUMPS.
Target Corporation doesn't care if you call it names - THEY HAVE THE
MONEY! We have the DEBTS!
Ditto the rich municipal bondholders - call them what you want to -
but KEEP
Following is the 2003 summary of Minneapolis Income and Expenses that
was handed out last December at the Truth in Taxation hearing. We're
a lot smarter now that the legislative session is over.
One of our City accounts needs to UPDATE these numbers so we know
where we stand. Also, please
Thank you for the info on yet another proposed CUB foods . These things are
like tribbles, you kill one in one location and three more pop up in others.
I as a north-east (Audubon) resident have been looking forward to the
opening of the rumored NE Co-op for nearly as long as I have lived in my
I also have been looking forward to the co-op, and having just bought a
house in Northeast I really like the fact that there are so many little
corner restaurants and the like, its what drew me to the neighborhood.
It is ridiculous to think that this area needs another huge warehouse
grocery
Michael Atherton wrote:
We don't have much Constitutional protection of privacy in public
and there is no reasonable assumption why we should.
True, the courts haved ruled that there is lessened expectation of privacy
in public but just how public are streets monitored 24/7 by cameras
supplied
I have asked this question before and am still looking for the answer; When
the city gives money to a private company for development, are there any
stipulations placed on that company when they take the money? For example,
if I go to Northside Housing and get a low interest loan on my house,
Before anything else: Anyone know when that fundraising carwash
is starting in north Minneapolis on Friday? I have it in my
calendar without a time.
The single danger I can see in posting video cameras downtown is
convincing camera that harm CAN'T come from video surveillance.
Shrinkage is an expected loss in all retail stores, and they work
constantly on ways to combat it. (I spent time in the Financial
Accounting dept. at Target Co. writing computer programs to try to pinpoint
such losses.)
But despite high shrinkage, the bottom line is that the Lake St. Target
I have lived in Northeast for most of my life, and I don't think that Cub
moving onto Central would be destructive. I like all the small businesses
that are on Central also, but know that it is badly in need of some big name
business to move in and take up shop there. One only needs to look at
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3921875.html
David Brauer
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Every once in the while it's necessary to give the NIMBYs of this list
a reality check and sort of put things in perspective. Cub is not the
wolf that WalMart, A.K.A. the Beast of Bentonville, is. They're not the
(paper) tiger Target is either. Cub is a subsidiary of Super Valu, a
medium
Jim Mork asks:
I see in the financial overview for 2003
(http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/citywork/city-coordinator/financ
e/services-budget/docs/budgetbook2003/Section3.pdf#page=1) that
the 2003 figure for police and civilian review is $100.8 million,
up 4 percent from $96.7. Why so many
That's a best-case estimate from City Councilmember Barret Lane about what
can be generated for the final phase of the program. Nearly a third of that
money comes in the final year, 2009.
Comments?
Steve Brandt's story is at:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3921976.html
David Brauer
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I've not followed the list in a while. I did see a few subject lines about
Cub Foods and Rainbow Foods.
I heard that Rainbow Foods at the Quarry is closing. Can anyone confirm this?
Thomas T. Thai / Whittier
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Dyna wrote:
Every once in the while it's necessary to give the NIMBYs of this
list a reality check and sort of put things in perspective. Cub is not
the wolf that WalMart, A.K.A. the Beast of Bentonville, is. They're not
the (paper) tiger Target is either. Cub is a subsidiary of Super Valu,
In this day of being grateful for signs of sanity wherever one can find it,
I am breathing a little easier this morning knowing MPLS City Council
members Schiff, Benson, Lane, and Zimmerman just all voted No on the
proposal to accept security camera donations from the Target Corporation for
on 6/6/03 9:52 AM, Chris Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dyna wrote:
Every once in the while it's necessary to give the NIMBYs of this
list a reality check and sort of put things in perspective. Cub is not
the wolf that WalMart, A.K.A. the Beast of Bentonville, is.
All I know is that
Steve wrote:
As far as knocking Paul Ostrow around regarding this issue. I am
hardly a backer of Paul, but it isn't the job of the city council member
to micro-manage businesses. If a business wants to move in and are
doing so within the letter of the law, they should be able to do so.
The
There IS a NO GUNS HERE website. There you will find that official and
tailored BANS GUNS signs can be ordered free for businesses and generic
'THIS HOUSEHOLD BANS GUNS IN THESE PREMISES from Marcom Direct and Thoele
Printing.
http://www.nogunshere.com
St. Joan of Arc, for instance will have
On June 12,2000 Barbara Schneider was experiencing a
mental health crisis.
When police, ill-equipped to handle a mental health
crisis, were called by a neighbor, six officers
appeared on the scene.
They broke down her front door after filling her
living room with CS gas. By this time Barbara had
The 5th Graders at Nellie Stone Johnson School are doing GREAT car washes in the
parking lot there!! Yes, neither rain, nor wind nor damp shall keep them from their
appointed task!!! They removed ALL of the pesky, stuck on bugs from my headlights and
windshield, they've got key chains and
List member Ann Berget noticed the head on my article in the paper this
morning: Funding shrinks for neighborhoods
Does anyone out there know if psychiatry is an allowable NRP expense?
Steve Brandt
Star Tribune
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Steve Brandt wrote:
List member Ann Berget noticed the head on my article in the
paper this morning: Funding shrinks for neighborhoods
Does anyone out there know if psychiatry is an allowable NRP expense?
If there is you might want to check for other
unconscious influences. For instance
In response to the city's call for businesses to hire
teens this summer, I had suggested hiring unpaid
interns. Someone had contacted me offlist, questioning
the value of an unpaid job. Since then
I have found out more about internships and would like
to elaborate.
An unpaid intern is not
Before there were statistics, there were myths. These stories were allegories about
ourselves. They told about out values, hopes and dreams. Myths served as a symbolic
reflection of our inner selves.
Today, we count numbers. And much like myths, the numbers reflect what we value.
CODEFOR
List member Barb Lickness probably knows the authoritative answer, but it's my belief that anything not specifically outlawed by NRP statutes is in fact allowed, even shrinks, if that's what the neighborhood residents want. Dunno about meds, though. That could be an ongoing and operating expense,
I am forwarding this information, which I posted on the state
discussion list, to this list also, because it specifically pertains
to the Minneapolis school district:
The following websites are Minneapolis' Small Learning
Communities First Choice Application. They are about
all students applying
Here is an alternative to the way Steve Brandt wrote the NRP
article..
The NRP intended to raid the general fund of $400 million over 20
years. Neighborhood activists have already spent $200 million.
Since Minneapolis abused Tax Increment Financing (TIF) and found
itself with skyrocketing
Quote (semi-accurate) from an old Bob Dylan song:
Oh, there's bandits and there's bankers,
Some rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen.
But I've never seen a bandit
Throw a family from their farm.
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson
What's the difference if someone holds a gun
Hard Times Cafe, on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota, has also put up a
sign banning guns.---Peter Schmitz CARAG
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And everyone will be much safer, now that government-approved gun
owners will be banned from various premises, and criminals will know
who's unarmed.
This is lunacy.
N.I. Krasnov
Loring Park
There IS a NO GUNS HERE website. There you will find that official and
tailored BANS GUNS signs can be
To quote accurately from an even earlier version.
And it is through this world I travel
I've seen lots of strange men
Some will rob you with a six-gun
And Some will rob you with a fountain pen
But'll you'll never meet an outlaw
Who'll drive a family from their home
Woody Guthrie
Dust Bowl Blues
Chuck forgets one thing that does not have to be IN the law. The
proprietor can tell the violator never to come on his/her
property again. Nothing like knowing who doesn't care about the
public safety to make things easy.
Regarding Cub and the co-op
1) The big box stores will never
Yes as long as the county was the contract administrator for the activity.
Barb Lickness
Whittier"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed,it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead
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Free online calendar with sync to
N.I. Krasnov wrote:
And everyone will be much safer, now that government-approved gun
owners will be banned from various premises, and criminals will know
who's unarmed.
This is lunacy.
Actually, I think both sides are being silly. I believe there are
approximately 300 cases in the
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3923942.html
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(Mpls-specific, of course.)
Just to clarify: The Cub meeting on June 17 (7 p.m. at the Pillsbury school
park addition) is being arranged by the Windom Park Citizens in Action
neighborhood group, not Council President Ostrow. The meeting is part of the
neighborhood organization's regular monthly meeting. The MCDA and the
Some want to limit 2 a.m. closings to downtown... question: does the new
state law allow that? (I thought it was all or nothing, but perhaps cities
get some discretion here.)
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3923861.html
David Brauer
King Field
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Thank you Gregory Reinhardt for your post on Minneapolis Issues about
statistics in general and crime stats specifically. It was as good an
explanation of Minneapolis statistics and their limitations as anything I
have seen.
Mr. Reinhardt says, Before there were statistics, there were myths.
Minneapolis and Chief Robert Olson offered as prominent examples:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/07/national/07CRIM.html
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Why pay more for suburban fare Downtown? asks letter writer.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/3919619.html
David Brauer
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Interesting update on LRT posted at the TwinCityRails list. See
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TwinCityRails/message/962.
FYI, Shawne FitzGerald, Powderhorn
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On 6/6/03 11:34 PM, JIM GRAHAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I enjoyed Gregory's report on crime stats. It brought meaning to
Minneapolis' crime statistics. Given that there is the knowledge that
crimes against persons and crimes against property are different, why does
Minneapolis lump them
What's the difference if someone holds a gun to your head and demands
your money, or if they hire a lobbyist or lawyer to do the same?
I say BAN ALL GUNS, LOBBYISTS, AND LAWYERS!!!
Personally, I'm more afraid of lawyers than I am of guns.
Vicky Heller, North Oaks
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