Adding to the list of dinner destinations on the North side---
Top Diner has long been an anchor business on Lyndale Ave N. Recently changing ownership it has spiced up it's wonderful family menu with a dash of the Caribbean. Great experience, great meals, reasonable prices. It's been such as
Will someone with a fine mathematical mind please try to sort out the conflicting statements about the cuts in LGA. The Governor says a city should be able to cut 5% with no sweat and that is all any one city is being asked to do. Others say that the City will take a 30% hit. On what base are
Well, Richard thanks for the clarification. I looked in my quick
History (not the big Green Book) and did find that some money was
exchanged to receive that land but didn't find anything on the name - so
thank you - I thought I had read that somewhere along the way.
Anyway, just to let people
Jan D.C. asks:
Will someone with a fine mathematical mind please try to sort out the
conflicting statements about the cuts in LGA. The Governor says a city
should be able to cut 5% with no sweat and that is all any one city is being
asked to do. Others say that the City will take a 30% hit. On
City Pages' David Schimke asks why the chief repeatedly gets the better of
the mayor. See:
http://www.citypages.com/databank/24/1159/article11065.asp
David Brauer
List manager
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From:
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Please disregard the previous notice sent out that the Council Study Session on Parliamentary
You can add the town of Bangor Maine to the list of places that are
considering antiwar resolutions. I also hear from the St. Louis Park Greens
that it has a good chance of passing there. The CMs of Minneapolis will show
just how relevant they are in the current debate. It would be better if
I mentioned this MPR feature yesterday {and found a
link today} as something that the state government
needs. Here's a Mpls. City Council challenge: present
the idea to state elected officials so they can see
the results that St. Louis County officials saw.
Susan Maricle
Bruno MN
formerly of
Minneapolis NAACP election dispute lands in court
Steve Brandt
Published Feb. 20, 2003
The Minneapolis branch of the NAACP has
asked a court to dismiss a challenge
to its presidential election last
November.
The motion in Hennepin County District
Court was filed in response to
The PiPress states Minneapolis's LGA cuts due to the Governor's plan will be
$25 million this year, $55 million the next.
The story also provides a good explanation for Jan Del Calzo's question:
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/5218947.htm
David Brauer
List manager
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Tim Bonham states
The rich are people too, Michael, but, by the Christian religion of most
list members, they are people that are bound for eternal damnation! By the
specific words of Jesus Christ himself: easier it is for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter
I can say that I am truly embarassed to be a Minneapolitan when ELY passes a
war resolution and can see the issue clearly as a local issue and
Minneapolis can not.
How many people have to be killed and how much do our lives have to be
affected directly before this becomes a local issue. Pastor
David Brauer writes:
Public plea: I do hope someone more experienced than I from the city or =
MCDA
weighs in here. I'm doing my best as a lay person to answer these =
questions
(which I need to know for my day job). However, now is a CRITICAL time =
to
educate the public with the facts. If
I posted this on December 5th too.
From pages 54 55 of the 2001 Minneapolis Comprehensive Financial Report
Revenue Total: $231,300,000
88,842,000 from taxes
20,697,000 from licenses permits
91,731,000 from other government sources (*see below)
16,289,000 from services and sales
7,974,000
In 2001, Mpls collected a Total of $207,018,000 of property taxes.
For the same year, only $88,842,000 shows up in the general fund.
What happened to the other $118,176,000?
All numbers from the 2001 Minneapolis Comprehensive Annual Financial
Reports (CAFR.)
Vicky Heller
Cedar-Riverside and
This is a note from Southwest Journal reporter Robyn Repya:
I'm looking for people who lived in Southwest close to or where 35W is now,
who can talk to me about what the neighborhood was like before and during
the construction in the 1960s. I'd also like to focus on how it changed the
David Shove wrote:
I know I'm supposed to respect the CM's vote on this, but it is very hard.
I respect them so much I'd like to see them retired to some very nice
place other than here, and replaced with reps with common moral sense.
PL: You know, this strikes me as being extremely unfair.
Fair Share Housing Committee
It is critical that some method be developed to address concentration and
siting issues. Minneapolis once the Nation's guiding light of civil rights
has become the disgrace of being one of the most segregated Cities in that
same Nation. This pattern of
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Paul Lohman wrote:
All of the attempts to convince us that this IS a city issue are not
compelling. Using those same arguments then this is a germane issue for
every organization in this country. Should we have our neighborhood
councils vote on anti-war resolutions?
Oh frabjious day. Callooh! Callay!
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra appeared at Hosmer last night. Fabuloso.
Four pieces with English horn, bassoon, cellos, violas and violins. Main
floor. Every chair Hosmer owns was taken and many sat on the floor. Many
stood. Not everyone could see the
paul lohman writes:
All of the attempts to convince us that this IS a city issue are not
compelling. Using those same arguments then this is a germane issue
for every organization in this country. Should we have our
neighborhood councils vote on anti-war resolutions?How about
Water
Perhaps Minneapolis should seek legislative authorization to remove the restrictions
on the use of non-general fund monies? The voter-approved sales tax use would likely
need to go to the voters, but other funds could be tapped. Maybe we should see if the
Governor is comfortable with
paul lohman writes:
All of the attempts to convince us that this IS a city issue are not
compelling. Using those same arguments then this is a germane issue
for every organization in this country. Should we have our
neighborhood councils vote on anti-war resolutions?How about
The case has been made? I have yet to see evidence that
a war against Iraq is not in the interests of the United
States. Cost arguments are not relevant; cost/benefit
arguments might be. No one has shown that there's a
Of course it is in the interests of the United States. More control
Im usually a silent participant in this forum but couldnt
help but take this opportunity to clarify something. Loring Park is not
the only downtown park. There is another beautiful park on the southeast end of
downtown, Elliot Park. Just take 8th Street and head east and shortly after
What with cuts in LGA, homelessness, poor economy and everything else, I
scoured the newspaper this morning looking for some good news. I
challenge the rest of you to post some good stuff to the list over the
next couple of days too.
First of all, it looks like there are several developers
Mill Ruins Park (or the entire parkway (Mississippi Mile Park) along
the river for that matter), the new Cancer Survivors Park (it may have
someones name attached to it) on part of the site of the Old Fed
Building and Gateway along Hennepin Avenue near the bridge come to
mind. I'd count Franklin
Linda Mann writes:
The CMs of Minneapolis will
show
just how relevant they are in the current debate. It
would be better if
all
these opponents would just be honest and say they
support the war
drive.
For once I agree with Linda Man. The opinion of the
city council of Minneapolis are
In a message dated 2/20/2003 4:07:59 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Council members who look at this issue are rightly
asking themselves -- why this when we [the city
council] can take up other issues which will have a
direct and immediate effect on the citizens of
Greeting's List,
Although, I am concerned with war and the negative connotations it may
bring. I am more concerned about those, getting put off the welfare rolls,
schools losing budgets, the poor steady getting poorer. The homeless still
homeless. I find issues such as war, highways and
Last one, everybody.
I was watching the cable show the other day, with the mayor and other
officers and they talked about recruitment of minorities to the police
department. I made a call to the number that was listed, with a certain
officers name, whom I won't mention, unless I truly have
Vanessa, I appreciated your post. Good hearing from you. I must say I'm
relatively certain a large number of our elected officials, indeed a large
number of our citizens who make a decent living, aren't thinking of anyone's
child who doesn't have a place to sleep or dinner to eat or decent to
sorry.
Nancy Russell
Longfellow
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From: Nrussell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: V.L. Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Just Blowing SteamVarious Issues...
Vanessa, I appreciated
Thanks to Sheila for this clarification. And she is right, although I have been
to some All Nationa Festivals held there and we have had a coule big baseball
picnics before taking lots of kids from all the parks to Twins games.
Annie Young
writing you tonight from Santa Monica, California where
Touche' Terrill. Since I already admitted frgetting Elliot Park I will admit
not including Franklin Steele Square (which yes is inside I94). Peavey Plaza is
not owned by the Park Board but I am sure some would consider it a park
downtown. And there is all the work going on on the Riverfront
Linda Mann wrote:
Also, to those who were offended by what they thought was my equating
opposition to the resolution with support for the war, I was talking about
certain CMs that I believe do support the war but haven't been open about it.
And who would they be? If you're going to accuse
In a message dated 2/20/03 3:59:43 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
NRP monies being cut back, but when I look around my
neighborhood,(Phase 2, on Broadway) and see what the NRP has done, all I
see
is abandon businesses, this money could have put people in homes,
In a message dated 2/20/03 6:10:23 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Despite all the naysaying, MPHA will replace all 770 units demolished by
the
court-imposed October 04 deadline, including 480 in the suburbs. Feats no
other PHA in the country has been able to
I went to the panel discussion of online advocacy at Coffman Union.
Quite interesting. I noticed that out of about 110 people, 107 where
white. I submitted my question to the panel regarding how we could
increase diversity in online election and government advocacy. My
question wasn't choosen to
Shawn Lewis wrote about Minneapolis NAACP election dispute lands in court
(http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3663443.html):
This is my second attempt at this response. After I hit send it
disappeared, my screen went blank, and nothing wound up in my Sent box.
So I am going to try again. I
These are really tough times. Businesses are cutting back and going under,
workers are being laid off or having their hours cut. And the public sector
is not immune -- all while the need is escalating dramatically.
Vanessa reminds us that we should be thinking of those who don't have
shelter or
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Steve Sumner wrote:
Haven't we learned by now that we shouldn't be playing class warfare?!
Steve Sumner, Ward 1
We have to play class defense if the rich are cutting their taxes and
raising ours, sending us off to wars for their profits, busting our
unions, shipping jobs
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