At 8:30pm December 31st, there will be fireworks on the River at Main St.
sponsored by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.Oprah
Winfrey
May 2005 bring you and your family mounds of good cheer and happiness in
spite of i
Barbara,
PRT is called an "epic boondoggle" by the New York
Press:
http://www.nypress.com/17/52/pagetwo/newshole8.cfm
A few weeks ago, the state of New Jersey appropriated
$75,000 to study the development of a personal rapid
transit system for Long Branch, a shore town just
south of New York C
On 12/28/04 12:04 PM, "Michael Hohmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps the high school students (from many city schools) could attend radio
> broadcasting-oriented classes at Brown (for instance), just as they can take
> college-level coursework at the U of M while still in high school. I'm
On 12/30/04 5:58 PM, "Phyllis Kahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks to Steve and David for posting the relevant news cites. I was
> thinking about doing it but they are obviously more adept at such stuff.
I'm glad David and Steve posted those article links as well.
Having now read them and r
Nope-it't not a politician, just an Minneapolis small business owner that
I am particularily proud of. It's Dean Rose. Owner of Broadway Liquor
Outlet and none other than the finest coffee in Minneapolis; The Bean
Scene on Broadway and Penn. My reason to say hes an unsung hero-is
because
OK, folks, for real this time:
The debate about smoking has been played out many times on this list this
year. The discussion always moves into an endgame of rights. It's a fine
discussion, but becomes general, repetitive and not very Minneapolis after
awhile.
So please, move on to another topic.
> If liquor is legal, it should be my right to down a beer or three while
> I'm driving down the freeway.
not really parallel. where you go to far is driving down the freeway. the
freeway is not private property. i believe you can down a case of beer in your
car when it is parked in your garage
I will be stepping on some big toes here, but after reading about the
$10,000 bonus checks some retirees were receiving during the "boom"
years of the 90's I am a little peeved that these folks are going to
hit us the taxpayers with a bigger bill during the "bust" times. The
theory behind th
Parallel arguments:
If liquor is legal, it should be my right to down a beer or three while
I'm driving down the freeway.
If liquor is legal, I should be able to open my bar at 4am.
If guns are legal, I should be able to have one near some world leader
when he/she's in town.
All or nothing at a
> Alcoholic beverages are "condoned and legal in Minneapolis" as well. But we
> certainly have lots of restrictions on where and when we can consume it.
> You can by a drink in a bar but you can't walk out on the sidewalk on a
> beautiful spring evening to enjoy it. You can't sit in a bus stop
Jim Graham,
Ventura Village Neighborhood, Phillips Community, Sixth Ward of
Minneapolis
wrote
Let me start by saying I think tobacco smoking is a terrible, nasty, awful
addiction. But it is an addiction that is condoned and legal in
Minneapolis. Minneapolis not only makes it legal but it licens
Okay, waitaminute, first the Smoking Ban is tantamount to Slavery and ethnic
cleansing of Native Americans, and now Peter McLaughlin is an unsung hero?
C'mon Jim, let's be real here. Heck, if that's the case, the Empowerment Zone
also put significant funding into Many Rivers (both phases) an
I think there is a group of people out there who are
all unsung heroes. Those are the folks that work
tirelessly in their neighborhoods to make Minneapolis
a better place to work, live and play.
There are over 5,000 of these people in the city
working in their neighborhoods on NRP planning or
imp
You wrote - Jim Mork - Are there other little-known rights I don't know
about?
I would guess there are, Amendment Ten of the U.S. Constitution provides
that Powers (read this as rights), if not listed in constitution (right to
vote is given at 18, can't run for congress unless 25) or the state are
Let us get off tobacco and get back to the "unsung heroes" for the MPLS
year.
A year ago American Indian Community Development Corporation (AICDC)
received exclusive development rights to several lots in the Ventura Village
Neighborhood of Minneapolis. The purpose of this assignment of rights w
Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2/15/04
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04046/273339.stm
"And since 1975, when the Twin Cities Fiscal
Disparities Act took full effect, cities have been
sharing 40 percent of the growth in their commercial
and industrial property assessments through a group
fu
Jim Graham:
Such theories of "public good" once
justified slavery, justified the ethnic cleansing of American Indians, the
"taking" of their land, not allowing Native Americans to vote until the
1920's, not allowing them to drink in some states until the 1950's. And
lest we forget, only abou
Resist Minneapolis!
Let me start by saying I think tobacco smoking is a terrible, nasty, awful
addiction. But it is an addiction that is condoned and legal in
Minneapolis. Minneapolis not only makes it legal but it licenses smoke shops
and stores to sell that product. Minneapolis politicians al
Forwarded on behalf of Nick Frank...
I briefly looked at the Citizens League report and it doesn't appear it
includes fees (ie taxes by another name). Does anyone have an idea on what
happens to St.Paul's ranking when you add in the fees, which they rely on to
a greater extent than Minneapolis?
Hi gang - smoking ban debate has gotten more general and less
Minneapolis-specific. Combatants are welcome to continue it among themselves
off-list. Otherwise, let's move on.
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