[Mpls] Don Samuels on Gary Eichten tomorrow at 11-noon on NPR

2003-08-04 Thread Joseph Barisonzi
Tune in to MPR (91.1) to hear Gary Eichten's guest Minneapolis Council Member Don Samuels Tuesday, August 5, 2003 11am-Noon Joseph Barisonzi Willard-Hay TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain -

[Mpls] New! CUE Website

2003-08-04 Thread Annie Young
Checkout the new CUE website and the Blooming Boulevards nomination form and inifo about the Front Porch contest coming in 2004. If you, your friends or relatives have a beautiful Minneapolis garden that everyone can see from the front or the alley fill out the nomination form and receive recog

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2003-08-04 Thread Anderson, Mark (GESM)
Chris Johnson wrote: > Let's be clear about one thing: Governor Tim Pawlenty, his > administration and his political cohorts are the A-1 problem in the > Minneapolis Public Library's budget. Regardless of any valid criticism > of past or present library administration or board, the 30% or $2.8 >

[Mpls] Questions for story

2003-08-04 Thread Shannon Gibney
Hi,   My name is Shannon Gibney and I am associate editor of the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder. I am writing a story on the Internet and political activism for an upcoming edition and would appreciate any answers you could offer to the following questions:   1)   Do you think that ac

RE: [Mpls] Fire Department taking over housing inspections

2003-08-04 Thread Leurquin, Ronald
Dennis I will not question your numbers, but do want to remind everyone that the moneys collected for the inspections department go into the cities general fund and then the city council dolls it back out to the inspections department to do its job. Inspections makes a lot more money for this city

[Mpls] Housekeeping reminders

2003-08-04 Thread List Manager
Please trim other members' comments from the bottom of your posts - digest readers (and the rest of us) don't need to wade through them again. Quotes from earlier posts should only be left in yours if you're responding directly to something. Second point: If you post regularly in HTML-formatted e

Re: [Mpls] Gangs and state help

2003-08-04 Thread Jhpalmerjp
One of the messages that I and others have put out repeatedly is how much this is not just a Jordan problem or a Northside problem, but a City, County and State problem.  Don started the ball rolling with his vigil, but he had a vision of a larger effort and RT, Mark Stenglein and Tim Pawlenty all

[Mpls] Yep, the gangbangers are migrating... just had 7 shots fired in Hawthorne

2003-08-04 Thread Dyna
Another bad night in the Mill City. Just after bar closing shots were fired outside the Gay 90s, ambulances called but haven't heard a call for homicide detectives yet- hopefully the victim(s) will recover. Here in Hawthorne, we heard several shots about 3 am and I saw a young man bail from a

[Mpls] Guns;Inspections;Crime

2003-08-04 Thread Jim Mork
Issue: Guns in the City After the Republicans, in their eagerness to pay back NRA for its generous support, told the local law enforcement here they WOULD issue permits to anyone qualified, the Star Tribune carried articles for many days running. THOUSANDS were clogging the system applying for