RE: [Mpls] Teacher Quality Education Reporting

2002-07-21 Thread Michael Hohmann
Michael Atherton, describing teacher training/certification stories in today's papers... ...these articles cover the dismally low standards for teachers in the state, In the math Praxis I test, the state's cut score is the lowest among 27 states that use it..., the treatment of the stories

[Mpls] Downtown Master Plan shows Metrodome gone......

2002-07-21 Thread Victoria Heller
Last Thursday, my friend Dudley Riggs showed me a copy of the Mpls Downtown Masterplan which shows, in the long term category, the Metrodome replaced with high density housing and mixed use office retail space. The contact listed on the plan is: Jack Byers Mpls Planning Dept 350 S 5th Street -

RE: [Mpls] Downtown Master Plan shows Metrodome gone......

2002-07-21 Thread David Brauer
It's a what-if scenario, Vicki, not a must-do. Skyway News had a story on the Master Plan a few weeks ago... http://www.skywaynews.net/archives/index.inn?loc=detaildoc=/2002/July/03-3837-news01.txt David Brauer King Field Editor, Skyway News -Original Message-

[Mpls] Nicollet Avenue

2002-07-21 Thread ken avidor
Dore Mead wrote: As has been the case in the past, there will not be designated bicycle lanes. Avidor: I thought it was City policy to increase the number of bike lanes. Mead: It should be noted that, because these sidewalks are not in a commercial area, it's legal for bicyclists to use these

[Mpls] I'm not meandering, you're just impatient.

2002-07-21 Thread Scott McGerik
David Brauer wrote: If anyone is questioning the great value of sidewalk cafe's, visit Old Montreal in the summer. Cafes are great! But as a pedestrian, I do think we can have them and ask them to obey the walking-width rules... Ann Berget writes: IMHO pedestrian-obstructionists who

Re: [Mpls] What happened to the bike lanes?

2002-07-21 Thread D. Jon
To follow up on my earlier response to Mr. Avidor's question regarding bicycle lanes on the Nicollet Avenue bridge over Minnehaha Creek, the city's Public Works plan for the bridge improvement project indicates that there will be one 7-foot wide lane adjacent to each of the 11-foot wide traffic

Re: [Mpls] I'm not meandering, you're just impatient.

2002-07-21 Thread ABerget
In a message dated 7/21/02 7:06:43 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the next time you are speed-walking around the lakes or rushing back to the office because you tarried too long at the sidewalk cafe, please remember, I might not be meandering. I simply may be not be in a

[Mpls] This Week in The Minneapolis Observer

2002-07-21 Thread Craig Cox
T H E M I N N E A P O L I S O B S E R V E R A Weekly Digest of All Things Minneapolitan www.mplsobserver.com Vol. 1, No. 47 July 22, 2002 This is a preview issue of The Observer. To subscribe to the full-meal deal ($12/yr.), simply hit reply and state your intentions, and we'll set you up. To