Re: [Mpls] Community Impact Statements for Basim Sabri

2005-01-15 Thread Eva Young
--- Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Barbara Lickness wrote: > > Forwarded to the list: > > > > SAFE3.1 > > Serving the 3rd Precinct, SAFE District 1 > > - > > Basim Sabri will be sentenced in approximately 30 > days > > for his conviction of

[Mpls] Happy To Pray For A Better Minneapolis

2005-01-15 Thread Victoria Heller
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray birth City your soul to keep, Guard us while we sleep tonight, And wake us honest at day's first light. An election year has just arrived, Candidates come with schemes contrived, I pray that voters see the truth, For everyone's sake, even this sleuth. Vicky Hell

[Mpls] Cedar Square West's present relevance - citations and disclosure

2005-01-15 Thread Bob Johnson
Citations: [MB] Professor Judith A. Martin, "Recycling the Central City: The Development of a New Town-in-Town”, Publication No. 78-1, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 161 pp., 1978. [PA] Adam Platt, "A House Divided - Minneapolis' West Bank is at war

[Mpls] Cedar Square West 's present relevance

2005-01-15 Thread Bob Johnson
[Mains]: Regarding that Infamous Minneapolis Landmark-- Cedar Square West: ...it was a failed project--only one phase of this massive project* was ever built and HUD ended up foreclosing on it. [Johnson]: Mains' understanding is defective. Take A and B for starters: A. The award was given for Ced

Re: [Mpls] Community Impact Statements for Basim Sabri

2005-01-15 Thread Steve Nelson
Chris, His sentence is going to be handed down in 30 days and I doubt very much that it will be 30 days. However, those who wish to make an impact statement to the Judge to help determine what that sentence will be--well, they have a 30 day sentence to do it! Steven M Nelson Willard Hay http:/

[Mpls] Re: Community Impact Statements for Basim Sabri

2005-01-15 Thread Aaron Klemz
Um, read again. It says Sabri will be sentence IN 30 days, not TO 30 days. That's why people are being asked to comment BEFORE the sentencing phase. aaron klemz cooper Original Message: Wow. I'm dumbfounded. 30 days for 4 felony counts? They were felonies, weren't they? One can get 30 days

RE: [Mpls] Libelous claims about Cedar Square West= Happy to Pay fora Better Minnesota?

2005-01-15 Thread David Brauer
Members -- Another member's sig line (not even in Randall's post) is not a Minneapolis issue. Warnings have begun to go out for those of you focusing on other members, not on city issues. Get a clue everyone! I'm getting tired of typing these messages. Haven't expelled anyone for awhile but perha

[Mpls] Re: Earth Day Cancelled

2005-01-15 Thread Svattheriver
Fortunately, according to Abby Schrader of the MRPB staff, the Park Board can still assist with bags, gloves, waivers, and trash removal. So we just need to get the word out and organize! Thanks, Scott Vreeland REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [E

Re: [Mpls] Libelous claims/ Happy to Pay fora Better Minnesota?

2005-01-15 Thread Dorie Rae Gallagher
- Original Message - > > If you have a "Happy to pay for a Better Minnesota" sign in your front yard, > let me ask you a simple question: > > Have you sent in a check? > >> > "Happy to Pay for a Better Minnesota" sings are trendy (were trendy), and > are Minnesota kitschy-cute, but they're

Re: [Mpls] Libelous claims about Cedar Square West= Happy to Pay fora Better Min

2005-01-15 Thread Michael Thompson
So, Dennis, using your logic, I could put up a "Bring the Troops Home" sign, though support the war? It may just be my silly little value, but I guess I expect those who put up Kerry signs to actually vote for Kerry, Bush signers to actually vote for Bush, and "Happy to Pay for a Better Minnesota"

Re: [Mpls] Libelous claims about Cedar Square West= Happy to Pay fora Better Min

2005-01-15 Thread Dennis Plante
Michael Thompson Writes: What I mean is, have you sent in a check or checks proving that you are truly "happy to pay" for a better Minnesota? I'm not talking about your Minnesota tax filing. I'm talking about a check say every quarter or so (or even one, for that matter) that proves that you are

[Mpls] RE: Earth Day Cancelled

2005-01-15 Thread Jennifer L. Rubenzer
Organizing clean up efforts can be a low/no cost effort and a very worthy use of time. I imagine we can do a great job of organizing via this list - count me in...just tell me where to show up and what I can do to help. Can someone help me understand the logistics of what happens to the garbag

Re: [Mpls] Libelous claims about Cedar Square West= Happy to Pay for a Better Minnesota?

2005-01-15 Thread Michael Thompson
Randall If you have a "Happy to pay for a Better Minnesota" sign in your front yard, let me ask you a simple question: Have you sent in a check? What I mean is, have you sent in a check or checks proving that you are truly "happy to pay" for a better Minnesota? I'm not talking about your Min

[Mpls] Earth Day Cancelled

2005-01-15 Thread Svattheriver
I have been a site coordinator for the Earth Day Annual Watershed Cleanup for 10 years. It is a great event that pulls tons of trash out of our watersheds near the shorelines of our lakes and rivers. I just got notice (second hand) that the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has cancel

Re: [Mpls] Libelous claims about Cedar Square West

2005-01-15 Thread Randall G Cutting
Thank you to my friends who corrected my mis-statement off-line. More correctly I should have written "Vicky is actually saying that someone who says "you've paid taxes" or "you've benefited from taxes" is being libelous and malicious. Either way, I stand behind my comment that "This has to be th

[Mpls] Another person assimilated into the Starborgs

2005-01-15 Thread mplsgordon2
Jim Bernstein wrote: >At the coffeehouse of your choice - I prefer *Starbucks* but I'll go wherever you choose. I'll buy. < He's been assimilated into the Starborgs. Can a man who chooses Starbucks over the thousands of locally owned, independent, shade-grown-sustainably-fairly-peace-tra

Re: [Mpls] Libelous claims about Cedar Square West

2005-01-15 Thread Randall G Cutting
WOW! OH MY GOD! I can't believe what I am reading! This has to be the single most ridiculous thing I have read in years. Vicky is actually saying that someone who says "you've paid taxes" is being libelous and malicious. I don't know where to begin. (Yes, everyone who knows me - it is true I

Re: [Mpls] Community Impact Statements for Basim Sabri

2005-01-15 Thread Chris Johnson
Barbara Lickness wrote: Forwarded to the list: SAFE3.1 Serving the 3rd Precinct, SAFE District 1 - Basim Sabri will be sentenced in approximately 30 days for his conviction of bribery (3 counts) and one count of attempting to bribe former City Council mem

[Mpls] Representative Kahn, where are you?

2005-01-15 Thread George Janssen
After your scurrilous response to my fairly mundane posting I thought you would respond to my response with a great vengeance. How disappointing. You obviously are incapable of responding to my posting with opposing facts. Very telling! You were questioned as to why you failed in do

[Mpls] RE: Minneapolis Populatoin

2005-01-15 Thread Ray Marshall
In addition to the "aging" and "diminishing" nature of the residents of the housing stock of Minneapolis, probably hundreds of Single Room Occupancy (SRO) units (flop houses) in the downtown's Skid Row and much substandard housing in other areas of Minneapolis disappeared between 1950 and the early

RE: [Mpls] Hate Speech

2005-01-15 Thread List Manager
Bill Cullen writes: > It seems to me that folk in Mpls are particularly quick to squash voices > they disagree with. Why is that? And why would we elect officials who > personally attack those who have different viewpoints? The next viewpoint > they squash might be yours. I will very gently su

[Mpls] Hate Speech

2005-01-15 Thread Bill Cullen
Jim Bernstein wrote: HATE SPEECH??? You cannot point to a single instance of my using hate speech in this forum or any other - or in my private life for that matter - because I have never, ever said or done anything that could be characterized as hate speech Well, almost. I have publicly c

[Mpls] Cook Book Swap on Monday

2005-01-15 Thread Karen Cooper
Hey, Minneapolitans, A friend and I are hosting a Cook Book Swap on Monday. If you'd like to trade in your unused or unwanted cookbooks for someone else's treasure, pack up some cookbooks and bring them by! We decided we're restless for some new culinary ideas... maybe you are, too? When: Mon

[Mpls] Community Impact Statements for Basim Sabri

2005-01-15 Thread Barbara Lickness
Forwarded to the list: SAFE3.1 Serving the 3rd Precinct, SAFE District 1 - Basim Sabri will be sentenced in approximately 30 days for his conviction of bribery (3 counts) and one count of attempting to bribe former City Council member Brian Herron. Co

[Mpls] Libelous claims about Cedar Square West

2005-01-15 Thread Victoria Heller
Vicky here: Mr. Mains, you had better be able to furnish proof of these false and malicious claims: Sheldon Mains wrote: "And regarding Victoria's claim of never taking government money for anything (OK, I'm paraphrasing here)-- - How about all the government support of Cedar Riverside Associa

RE: [Mpls] Blowers Unite!

2005-01-15 Thread Jim Bernstein
Although I am inclined to not support a measure prohibiting leaf blowers, I must take exception to the reason stated here - that government cannot or should not regulate conduct on private property. Minneapolis has a host of ordinances that restrict or prohibit (or require) certain activities on "

Re: [Mpls] MPRB costs/fees

2005-01-15 Thread Elizabeth Wielinski
I guess I am missing what the point is here. Yes, rec sports have fees and yes they are subsidized so that the fees allow for everyone to have the ability to attend. We are not trying to have an elitist system where only those who can pay can play. If I couldn't have afforded the fee for th

[Mpls] MPRB costs/fees

2005-01-15 Thread Scott Neiman
In the discussion of what makes money and what doesn't for the MPRB, I find It's interesting that some folks keep singling out the youth and adult athletic community as having to be partially subsidized. At least, these groups are contributing something to the system; through the daily user fees

[Mpls] The Island

2005-01-15 Thread Barry Clegg
FYI - The proposed plans for the DeLaSalle football field can be viewed at mplsparkwatch.org (click on the DeLaSalle article) or at nicolletisland.org (click on the save Grove Street button). Barry Clegg Nicollet Island REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manag

Re: [Mpls] Lake Harriet Kite Festival cancelled

2005-01-15 Thread md
It was great fun last year and the weather was perfect...sunny not too cold, lots kids running around. Someone from the Minnesota Kite Society flew a huge gecko kite made out of green fabric over the lakeand there were other flying wonders there as well! The Minnesota Kite Society will have

[Mpls] Decorum alert

2005-01-15 Thread List Manager
Let's get off the individual members' personalities/personal characteristics, etc. and back on the issues. Focusing on people leads to flames and violations. Focusing on issues is what we're here for. There's a bit more leeway for a candidate (though that's not a blank check), but if you're focus

[Mpls] Jim B Scorns what Victoria Warns/All Stakeholders Must be Welcome Here

2005-01-15 Thread PennBroKeith
Jim Bernstein said: "In my many conversations these past six months with people in the 13th Ward, cutting taxes and spending have not emerged as issues of great concern." Victoria Heller Had Asked: "And if you are elected to the City Council, what will you do to reduce spending, existing debts