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Zerby says it's to everyone's advantage to have these conditions
worked out with full disclosure of data.
Passed 9 to 2, with 1 abstention
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to be higher now that the election is over.
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and the like. The increased police presence had no effect
on murders and other crimes that typically take place out of sight.
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! will they really lose their store?). Paying off
some small businesses would be a drop in the $800 million bucket. But
I guess that's a lot to ask of a project that was willing to cut
corners on traffic light technology.
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. Simons is wrong - the 30 second sound-bite
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an independent voice to the council that I think
would benefit more than just Ward 13 constituents. Hodges, I suspect,
would dance with them what brung her.
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Minneapolis has also joined Intel’s Digital Communities program
which I announced last August (click here for the Intel announcement).
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that the city should take a
little more time. Perhaps the time could be used to hold a public
meeting or two.
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-issue endorsers. (Which can get
you into some strange situations. Witness the Gente de Minnesota
endorsement of Randy Kelly.)
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may beat the DWP to the mayor's goal.
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trading something (probably free access in lieu of money) to the city
for access to public assets. There was no RFP/RFI/whatever, and the
city has no up front requirements for municipal services (it already
has a publicly owned fiber network).
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pedestrian friendly corridors between it and the Mall and the Target
Center.
And as long as we're mentioning restaurants we miss, I miss Chez
Bananas. Beans and rice, fish in tropical salsas, rum drinks, and
magic 8 balls. Independent, too.
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the assets in pension funds, which are 30 percent of the assets in
the U.S. market. (That figure comes from a 2004 report by the
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federal data.)
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, should decide.
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a DFL'er who supports the Green platform, but is still mad about the
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And if you're looking for one, visit Woodland Stoves and Fireplaces
at 29th and Franklin, or:
http://www.woodlandstoves.com/
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On Oct 9, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Gena Berglund wrote:
I thought that wood burning stoves produced a lot
/how.html for an explanation of how this
might work).
Okay, back to shop vac-ing the water out of our basement.
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services, but video requires more
capacity than is currently available or, imho, is likely to be
available.) So I don't take that comparison as an example in which
the market is working well.
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wireless network
own the infrastructure.
Community wireless networks are community organizing projects. The
question of public or private ownership is a policy choice, and one
that should be made with public input.
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I could go on but I'm too tired.
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More on the wireless proposal. I've mostly spared the List my missives,
but I thought this one might be of some interest.
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Why We Need a Democratic Information Network in Minneapolis
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ties, and to sometimes live in our own glass houses.
Anyway, peace be with you, Dean and family and friends.
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not Minneapolis
specific. I won't write a single other word on the matter.
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of its EDVO service - broadband connections of
maybe half a Mbps for $80 per month - because reporters just rewrite
the press release).
MuniWireless gives a good explanation of the fine print
http://muniwireless.com/community/818
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ILSR has been writing about this for going on 25 years.
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is worse. As to breach of contract, there are legal
remedies for that.
To Eva's points - Horrors! A radio station that wants to avoid hot
button issues in favor of substantial discussion of the issues that
affect most people's lives.
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or the Iraq war (which Coleman also claims he was told not to talk
about).
I'm sure Nick Coleman is a good guy, and I'm not passing judgment on
his other work. But this strikes me as sour grapes from someone who
just wasn't doing his radio job well.
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that we'd be better off with less of the latter. [P]ie-in-the-sky,
feel-good boondoggles are a rather small percentage of the boondoggles
we taxpayers finance.
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Granted, there are many things that can be done to reduce our
dependence on
imported petroleum-- some smart
and businesses.
We're not supposed to call it a franchise agreement, which I'm told is
a precise regulatory term that applies to cable, but it sure quacks
like a duck.
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plan to use them to make things better in our little part of the world.
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to see a lot more
attention focused on BPL, satellite, long-range wireless, and anything
else that bypasses the cable and telco networks.
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Additional parking can be found at the intersection of 4thSt. 17th
Ave SE
in the 4th Street ramp.
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themselves enough to provide for the needs of their
citizens.
We'd be happy to give more of my money to the city and state, where we
have some influence over how it's spent, and less to the federal
government, where it's distributed under the influence of folks like
Jack Abramoff.
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couldn't we have both? Was it too much to buy out KMart, or
something else?
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put forth rationales for
such policies) think that's a good idea, and the same for the other
candidate(s).
Just expanding on Arthur Himmelman's thought...
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annually for services provided through the new
network?
A privately-owned Minneapolis network is not a done deal. If you're
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the number of people working in police forces, which is pretty amazing.”
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They don't have any gas stations listed on the web among their members,
but I suspect they would know where to look.
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other than as federal preemption of state laws, and anyone else is
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I owe an apology to Michael and the list. I replied on the list to a
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So, I apologize.
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see http://www.newrules.org/drdave/17-banking.html,
and Rogue Agencies Gut State Banking Laws at
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that they will not be preempted by federal
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out) rather than on unethical businesses engaged in predatory behavior.
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Done for the day in Seward - sorry to cheat with this third post -
sometimes even lack of anonymity doesn't get people to follow the rules
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(link posted by Mark Snyder)
Minneapolis achieved the pollution reduction necessary to meet the
Kyoto Protocol, one of the first cities in the nation to do so, said
Mayor Rybak. Most other U.S. cities were waiting
Franklin and Lake or 46th, contact me. There are some pretty well
proven methods to draw on, so we wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel,
just organize some events.
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league contraction.
*After Twins Sports Inc. President Jerry Bell said the provision looks
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first because he is the police machine candidate. But numbers are
numbers.
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Thanks, Rep. Kahn, for partly explaining that. But can someone explain
to me why the Mayor has opposed it?
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(who normally wouldn't be such a lazy citizen, but currently has too
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who made the convention such a good and interesting experience.
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Yes, the economic downturn and losing state and federal aid has had a
negative impact on city finances. But are some of the problems the city
is now experiencing attributable to trading a behind-the-scenes mayor
for an in-the-spotlight mayor? (This is not a rhetorical question.)
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article.)
http://www.slowfoodpgh.com/nyt3_7.htm
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No new taxes; Any Social Security plan must include private accounts.
Did you try I strongly oppose the stadium plan, and I would like to
understand why you support it?
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. That's an interesting discussion (to some), but it's an
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Can we stick with optical scanners and use IRV?
My understanding is that San Francisco had significant problems
implementing IRV because of voting machine and paper audit trail issues.
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On Friday, April 29, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Jeanne Massey wrote:
The PowerPoint
between the two candidates for the DFL endorsement.
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On Friday, April 29, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Dyna wrote:
McLaughlin said Thursday that he would vote for the plan and
acknowledged that doing so would cost
me votes at the endorsing convention. It's not easy, he said, but
I
Thanks for your answer, Jeanne, and thanks to the person who sent a
similar answer off-list. I'm pleased to hear this could go forward with
a minimum of hassle, which should make it easier for people to support!
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to avoid over-enrollment by limiting
admissions offers. Increasing the yield rate, in concert with an
increase in the number of applications, will result in an increase in
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The Crystal experience with Comcast may be good, but all one has to do
is check one of the tech news sites (broadbandreports.com, techweb.com)
or Google comcast+outage and there is plenty of evidence that they are
not performing well in other markets.
On Friday, April 22, 2005, at 11:12 AM,
, it
will sell access to the network at the wholesale level, allowing
competition of ISPs at the retail level.
I'm giving Minneapolis the benefit of the doubt that private does not
necessarily mean a for-profit telecom. But I intend to closely observe
the proposal review process.
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