[Mpls] Pro Bike Racing in downtown Minneapolis on Friday, June 13

2003-05-27 Thread Dave Harstad
On the evening of Friday, June 13, some of the best male and female professional bike racers in the county will be in downtown Minneapolis to race in the Nature Valley Grand Prix, which is part of the Great River Energy Bicycle Festival. Riders will include former Olympians and Tour de France

Re: [Mpls] Social Costs and Who's responsible

2003-05-27 Thread phaedrus
The thread regarding bad tenants has produced some of the usual and some pretty interesting things. I think my favorite was the idea of NJIMBY - which does express the way I was looking at it. (Although, as I think my neighborhood is middling to good, maybe it is for NJITBY me. Not Just In Their

Re: [Mpls] Taxes and expenses for Mpls vs MN

2003-05-27 Thread Chris Johnson
Anderson Turpin wrote: This has been a long, complicated thread. But it seems to me it has covered two different topics. 1) It all started when Jim Mork complained that the sugar daddy from St Paul cut funds for CCP Safe in Cooper Neighborhood. If this is the sort of thing LGA funds are used

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2003-05-27 Thread Sen.Linda Higgins
Booker T. says : I have received creditable information that Mrs. Cherryhomes plans on running for office again. From what I here there will be a fund raiser held for her on May 27, 2003 at a certain state senator’s home. I have tried to contact the state senator and state representative who are

[Mpls] Jobs for teenagers in Minneapolis

2003-05-27 Thread Mark Snyder
I was watching the 10:00 news last night and saw on the KARE-11 Extra that a woman who works as a records clerk for the Minneapolis Police Department has heeded Mayor Rybak's call and started a business to create jobs for local teenagers. The teens are doing things like yard work and helping

Re: [Mpls] Jackie

2003-05-27 Thread Peter T Schmitz
Linda says: Jackie is a private citizen now. Peter asks: Does that mean Jackie won't be running for public office between now and 2005? --Peter Schmitz CARAG Once a thing is known it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten. And, in a way that bends time, so long as it is

Re: [Mpls] Jackie

2003-05-27 Thread Eric Mitchell
This is ridiculous. It's like talking to paparazzi-like conspiracy theorists. TheLIE was put out by Ron Edwards' web lob. It's further theorizedin chapters 12 and 13 of his book "The Minneapolis Story, Through My Eyes.", co written by Peter Jessen (plug for the day). I've got to read this book

RE: [Mpls] Jackie - please end thread

2003-05-27 Thread List Manager
Hi folks - This topic seems sure-fire to cross the line of our rules against inflammatory dialogue..and with few facts, it has. The only one who's qualified to answer the will Jackie run? question is Jackie Cherryhomes. If she chooses to respond, she has an open invitation here. But until/if

Re: [Mpls] Minneapolis Crime; The True History of LGAs

2003-05-27 Thread gemgram
As someone who has taught research methods and statistics, let me assure Mr. Mork that you can make inferences and disprove something, but you can not prove anything with statistics. I am sure that the people living around Franklin and Park in South Minneapolis and along 26th in Jordan received a

[Mpls] 38th street ramps delayed

2003-05-27 Thread List Manager
Dave Piehl calls it on the list, Steve Brandt reports it: http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3905178.html Project officials have offered to delay some ramp changes to Interstate Hwy. 35W in south Minneapolis by several years in order to address state concerns about the cost of the $153

[Mpls] Crime statistics

2003-05-27 Thread Mark Snyder
Since I'm one of those folks who lives in a comparatively safe neighborhood, I've been perusing the city crime statistics lately as well. One of the things I found helpful was to read the Understanding Crime Statistics page on the city web site -

Re: [Mpls] Minneapolis Crime

2003-05-27 Thread Dyna
After the remaining local drug house's clients kept me up 'til 3am Monday I decided to enjoy a couple more days in the country. I'm not the only Minneapolitan escaping this dying city- the business section in today's Strib has an article on Jim Larson's new housing ventures- in Ortonville,

[Mpls] Floods of Crime in Minneapolis

2003-05-27 Thread Jim Mork
OK, so now we've seen one person try to refute the only available facts about crimes with an anti-statistics argument. To which I would respond that without statistics, modern science is impossible. That is why everyone from an accountant to a physicist has to gain mastery in statistics. It is