[Mpls] 9,430 people leave Minneapolis

2004-06-24 Thread Victoria Heller
U.S. census figures to be released today show that Minneapolis lost about 3,000 residents between 2002 and 2003. That's a slight decline from the nearly 4,000 drop the year before, but compares to population loss from 2000 to 2001. According to the U.S. census, total population for Minneapolis

[Mpls] Anti-smoking hysteria loses steam

2004-06-24 Thread Victoria Heller
From St. Paul: Mayor Kelly to veto smoking ban http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4844164.html From Moorhead: If Fargo doesn't ban smoking, we won't either. {Aren't there a lot of casinos in Fargo)? http://www.startribune.com/stories/1557/4842101.html Liberty quote of the day: I do

[Mpls] Record settlement reached in brutality suit

2004-06-24 Thread Terrell Brown
Today's StarTribune Record settlement reached in brutality suit Howie Padilla, Rochelle Olson and David Chanen, Star Tribune June 24, 2004 SUIT0624 Minneapolis will pay nearly $1 million to a man who lost his colon and part of his small intestine after what he claims was a beating

[Mpls] Let's Ban It

2004-06-24 Thread Tom Elsa Thompson
Since we are going to be banning substances that are legal, I think there are a few more public health issues that need to be addressed. What about the people with respiratory problems, asthma, etc. who can't go places because of fragrances. I think we should ban all fragrances from the

[Mpls] Stone Arch Bridge

2004-06-24 Thread Barbara Lickness
Can anyone out there tell me who owns the Stone Arch Bridge? What agency is responsible for it's maintenance? Barb Lickness Whittier = Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead

RE: [Mpls] Steve McClelland out at First Avenue

2004-06-24 Thread MJ Mueller
This is a true loss for the music community. When my husband (Dave Ray) died, shortly before a scheduled appearance at First Ave., Steve and staff couldn't have been more responsive and sensitive in helping to turn the scheduled Koerner, Ray and Glover concert into a beautiful and meaingful

Re: [Mpls] 9,430 people leave Minneapolis

2004-06-24 Thread Laura Waterman Wittstock
On Thursday, June 24, 2004, at 06:33 AM, Victoria Heller wrote: Can anyone else see a trend here? Have you noticed all of the for sale and for rent signs around town? To solve your financial mess, you'll need to reverse this trend. Perhaps City officials (and journalists) should conduct exit

[Mpls] Smoking Ban Violates the First Amendment

2004-06-24 Thread Aaron Klemz
Hi - Just thought I'd recount an anecdote to make that point. At the Green Party nominating convention in Bemidji earlier in June, the opening of the nominating convention was marked by the ritual of smoking tobacco from a pipe. The ceremony, which was conducted by folks from one of the local

RE: [Mpls] Let's Ban It

2004-06-24 Thread Gregory Luce
Tom Thompson wrote: I guess that smoking must just be the first thing on the slippery slope of banning personal choices, or is it just that you have a personal aversion to one but not the other? Soon what, where and probably with whom we eat will be dictated by government. [Me]: I gotta

[Mpls] Last words for now.

2004-06-24 Thread phaedrus
Because I've been finding myself growing angry more often than I like and wanting to respond to some posts and commentary in a way that would be unwelcome to the list, I'm unsubscribing from the forum for a while. My skin is perhaps a bit too thin for this sort of thing, so I need to thicken it

Re: [Mpls] McManus 5-year plan statement

2004-06-24 Thread WizardMarks
List Manager wrote: Forwarded at the request of city communications staff .Community-oriented policing will become everybody's responsibility. This is the puppy that creates questions in my mind, and has so since first instituted at MPD. There are forty-eleven, wildly variant

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2004-06-24 Thread Diane Wiley
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Re: [Mpls] Let's Ban It

2004-06-24 Thread gemgram
I agree with Tom Thompson, since we are allowing 'Legal Substances' to be banned, why not use this police power as a precedent. Let's give our CM's the power to ban other harmful things. Since we are banning things for health reasons, and for the good of all, because of their affects upon others,

[Mpls] Powerful Tool For Fighting Drug Gang Houses

2004-06-24 Thread gemgram
This afternoon I advised Barb Lickness about how to possibly insure that her Neighbor from hell house was not for a third time rented to problem people. I suggested that she help the owner by sending them a registered letter with the State Statute on Disorderly House or state statute 609.33 from

[Mpls] Population: Minneapolis Loses a Great One.

2004-06-24 Thread Dyna Sluyter
Early this morning my good friend Laurie Dow, musician and Stevens Court resident for decades, lost her battle with cancer. Laurie came to Minneapolis from the more stifling attitudes of Edina in the early 1970s and was active in the antiwar and gay rights movements. She was an accomplished

Re: [Mpls] Re: Don't need condos in North Loop

2004-06-24 Thread md
It seems that we have more condos downtown than are needed... at least if you do a search on any local real estate listings website... it appears that a significant number of them are for sale... Just how many rich folks want to live downtown...esp. if all they've got to look at is the brick wall

[Mpls] Don't need condos in North Loop

2004-06-24 Thread NICHOLAS FRANK
To my knowledge the city is not involved in any way with any of the following Downtown projects in planning or currently under construction: 212 Lofts Security Lofts 918 Lofts Bookmen Lofts and Bookmen Stacks The Carlyle 6 Quebec Tower Lofts Callumet Lofts (St. Anthony Main) Pillsbury A Mill

[Mpls] Re: Don't need condos in North Loop

2004-06-24 Thread NICHOLAS FRANK
To my knowledge the city is not involved in any way with any of the following Downtown projects in planning or currently under construction: 212 Lofts Security Lofts 918 Lofts Bookmen Lofts and Bookmen Stacks The Carlyle 6 Quebec Tower Lofts Callumet Lofts (St. Anthony Main) Pillsbury A Mill

[Mpls] Check Your Pulse!

2004-06-24 Thread Pulse of the Twin Cities
Pulse of the Twin Cities Volume 8, Issue 12 June 23 - June 29, 2004 http://pulsetc.com Your Locally Grown Alternative Newspaper -- Union members, Latinos protest Fox by Lucy Grinnell http://pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=1160 How to Shoot Like a Girl by

Re: [Mpls] Let's Ban It

2004-06-24 Thread Mark Snyder
On 6/24/04 11:20 AM, Gregory Luce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, before you feel that we are on the road to ban the sun, perfumes, fragrances, cars, tanning, fast food, coffee, alcohol, plaid boxer shorts, false teeth, John Tesh CDs, and/or the ability to breath at all, take a breath and

[Mpls] Re: Don't need condos in North Loop

2004-06-24 Thread WJKAHN
Nick Frank states: To my knowledge the city is not involved in any way with any of the following Downtown projects in planning or currently under construction: [a list of condo developments] The city is involved in all of these developments because the city permits them based on the

[Mpls] Minneapolis.................

2004-06-24 Thread Robert Yorga
Sooner or later Jim Walsh is gonna do it so I'm going to beat him to the punch.though I won't throw it as well. What happened to my rock and roll, whatever happened to Mpls? Out and about I look around and Mpls has changed. I mean really changed. St. Paul for that matter. but