Re: [Mpls] Where do you (NOT) buy your groceries, vcr, fridge, computer cd's

2003-06-24 Thread Dyna
On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 10:05 PM, Mark Snyder wrote: There was only one Northsider who mistakenly assumed that I prefer organic cotton because I was worried about my own exposure to toxic chemicals. List members can draw their own conclusions. John, I was making humor of your organic

[Mpls] Big Boxes, north Mpls., and Overcoming (was Where do you buy)

2003-06-24 Thread Susan Maricle
--- Mark Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, the local models everyone likes to point to are Grand Ave. in St. Paul, Eat Street in south Minneapolis and more recently, Central Ave. NE. SAM: Mark, what you are describing is what Penn and Lowry was in the 1990s. Can anyone on the list update

[Mpls] Event re: 14 yr old beaten by police

2003-06-24 Thread Michelle Gross
I received this and thought others on the list would want to know about it. Michelle Gross Bryn Mawr Communities United Against Police Brutality On Tuesday, June 24th at 5:00 p.m., Titilayo Bediako is holding a press conference and protest at

[Mpls] (no subject)

2003-06-24 Thread Leurquin, Ronald
Dyna The Central Ave location Cub wants to build on needs a subsidy from the city to happen. It also needs the city to condemn a lot of very descent housing so it will have a lot large enough for their overgrown parking lot needed for their big box retail. Central Ave really doesn't want the Cub

RE: [Mpls] Where do you (NOT) buy your groceries, vcr, fridge, computer cd's

2003-06-24 Thread Leurquin, Ronald
Dyna If your attitude is that us yuppies should bugger off then I will grant your wish. I do not, and never will, consider myself a yuppie. Good luck to you if all you can do is find the bad stuff in North. Ron Leurquin -Original Message- From: Dyna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[Mpls] re: Obey

2003-06-24 Thread Mark Wilde
Conor Donnelly wrote: Even arts advocates bristle when the stuff seeps out of the gallery and into the streets, alleys, and vacant storefronts. i do not bristle when this stuff gets out on the street. I enjoy seeing art in all of its forms, and especially this art because it has a message that

Re: [Mpls] Crime Containment on Franklin Avenue/ Need a rest? Break a law!

2003-06-24 Thread Peter T Schmitz
WM: I don't think every cop out there is dumb as a bucket of hair. Peter: I never said any cop out there was dumb as a bucket of hair or whatever. The fact is, women and men in prostitution, whether they are forced into it or not, are vulnerable to blackmail by rogue cops as long as

Re: [Mpls] re: Obey/ or die...

2003-06-24 Thread PennBroKeith
In a message dated 6/24/03 6:46:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Conor Donnelly wrote: Even arts advocates bristle when the stuff seeps out of the gallery and into the streets, alleys, and vacant storefronts. i do not bristle when this stuff gets out on the

RE: [Mpls] Where do you (NOT) buy your groceries, vcr, fridge, computer cd's

2003-06-24 Thread Connie Beckers
Dyna sure tries to paint a poverty stricken and crime riddled view of North Mpls and I'm here to say that while we have those things, it's not the ENTIRE image of North Mpls. Geez, EVERY neighborhood in the WORLD has problems to deal with and it's unfair to characterize an entire community based

[Mpls] 11am on WCCO radio today - MPLS SCHOOL CUTS

2003-06-24 Thread Wendy Pareene
David Jennings, COO of Mpls Public Schools will discuss the system's final budget... to be voted on by the school board today for 2003-2004. The budget cuts $30 million and 700 layoffs. Please join me and feel welcome to call with questions comments from 11-11:30 on WCCO AM 830 this morning

Re: [Mpls] Crime Containment on Franklin Avenue/ Need a rest? Break a law!

2003-06-24 Thread WizardMarks
Peter T Schmitz wrote: Peter: If you want to believe that every cop out there is a law abiding citizen, Wizard, go ahead, that's your privilege, a privilege that white Americans can easier afford. WM: This is dalmatian defecation and you know it. What I believe about cops is neither here no

Re: [Mpls] Where do you (NOT)

2003-06-24 Thread List Manager
And this post should have been offlist as well. C'mon people. I appreciate Jon wanting to elevate the discussion, but we need to model the good behavior you want to see. No more personal shots, please. David Brauer List manager on 6/24/03 12:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[Mpls] PiPress:Mpls might shun computer porn filters - and federal money

2003-06-24 Thread Borger, Judith Yates
Title: PiPress:Mpls might shun computer porn filters - and federal money http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/6154994.htm Minneapolis might shun computer porn filters - and federal money The Minneapolis Public Library may forgo up to $160,000 in federal funds rather than

[Mpls] re: Obey

2003-06-24 Thread Conor Donnelly
David Brauer wrote: Here's the bottom line: I hire good writers and when they are columnists (like Anna) I generally let them write what they think. I might not agree with every idea they have, but since I hire them for their opinions, I usually defer to them. CD: I'm relieved that the Skyway

[Mpls] Lake Street Reconstruction and Streetscaping Open Houses--TODAY, Thursday, and Saturday.

2003-06-24 Thread rracz
Your friends at STRIDE remind you that a series of open houses will take place this week to get input from citizens about the future of Lake Street. The open houses are as follows: * Tuesday, June 24, 7 - 9 p.m., Minneapolis Police Fifth Precinct Station, 3101 Nicollet Ave. S. *

[Mpls] Street Vice;Art

2003-06-24 Thread Jim Mork
Wizard Marks keeps blowing back and forth as she tries to justify police crackdowns on prostitution. At no point has she even tried to answer how that crackdown is going to end prostitution in light of the fact that governments back to Sumeria have tried crackdowns and never achieved its

[Mpls] Minnehaha Ticketing and Parking Permits

2003-06-24 Thread Jay Clark
Robert D. Smith asked me to forward this message to the Minneapolis Issues List Jay Clark Cooper -- Mr. Clark Your comments on the dunderheaded and arrogant new Patron Pass'' system were forwarded to me. I got ticketed at

RE: [Mpls] re: Obey

2003-06-24 Thread Terrell Brown
-Original Message- From: David Brauer Answering the question, what is art? snip Here's what I meant by my somewhat clumsy point: I am constantly amused by the conformity of rebels. Think spiky-haired punks who look like they stepped out of a Clash album; what was original,

RE: [Mpls] re: Obey

2003-06-24 Thread David Brauer
Robin - I realize this gets us off on a deep, dark philosophical debate that easily becomes non-Minneapolis specific, so here goes the short version. Advocating more visual pollution because you don't like the current visual pollution is great logic in an eye-for-an-eye kind of way, but ignore

Re: [Mpls] Street Vice;- A little Sigapore Restoritive Justice might help.

2003-06-24 Thread JIM GRAHAM
Jim Mork writes, Send in the cops only works for certain things. It reduced the murder rate, so it was money well spent. But I don't recall a time when a socially caused problem like prostitution or drug use went away because of social coercion. There may BE a solution (not every country suffers

[Mpls] re: obey

2003-06-24 Thread andrew korf \\\\
as a fan of the arts ... and especially urban art - i was happy that the obey show visited minneapolis, and seeing the occasional andre the giant sticker. i think the words of a former supreme court justice on pornography might in the case for graffiti: i can't define exactly what it is... but i

Re: [Mpls] Street Vice;- A little Sigapore Restoritive Justice might help.

2003-06-24 Thread Peter T Schmitz
Jim, Drug dealing and prostitution are already illegal in Minneapolis, okay? So why do neighborhoods like yours continue to experience drug dealing and prostitution and all the bad things that come along with it, like gang wars and shootings and hookers defecating in recycling bins? The answer

[Mpls] Community garden at risk?

2003-06-24 Thread Mark Snyder
I read in the Strib Metro section about how the community garden located at 26th and Knox in Jordan neighborhood is apparently being considered for redevelopment by MCDA. I'd post a link to the story, but for some reason, I can't seem to find it on the Strib web site. The article discusses at

[Mpls] re: Obey--a new post at the city haul

2003-06-24 Thread G.R. Anderson
i hate to keep posting links here, but i realize that readership ebbs and flows with such self-promotion. so, i offer this: http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/granderson/2003/06/24 and, for the hell of it, this: http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/granderson/2003/06/23 insights, comments and