Sunday Pioneer Press article profiling Third Ward Minneapolis City
Councilmember Don Samuels:
MINNEAPOLIS: 3rd Ward vigilance
Council Member Don Samuels' recent vigils to remember people killed in
his ward, while politically risky, seem to be uniting a community.
BY JUDITH YATES BORGER
Pioneer
Someone asked where this was reported. There was a good write-up in
Skywaynews:
http://www.skywaynews.net/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2003/May/19-2216-news01.txt
Jim McGuire
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The concept of video surveillance of public areas is pretty new to us here
in the US, but it's nothing new in Europe.
I was pickpocketed in Ireland and paid a visit to the Garda (Police)
station. I was amazed to see the number of video monitors they had. It
seemed to show that police in Irela
Editorial: Poor image / Minneapolis sells itself badly
Published June 2, 2003
Minneapolis has an image problem.
People who visit tend to be surprised
and delighted. Some even entertain the
idea of living here. But those who have
never been here -- and that's the great
majority -- tend
A month or so ago when I expressed some opposition to these cameras, I
was told by one member of our City Council that "you're just paranoid".
Well I'm sorry but I don't think that is the case. There is enough
libertarian in me to think that thinks the govenment doesn't need to be
watching our ev
The Northside's target has been slowly dying for years, but recent
events in the Northside have hastened it's demise. Let us here attempt
a brief postmortem examination of the causes of this tragedy.
Primary cause of death was Target's own mismanagement. Target's buyers
seem to have been hire
Mike said : "I also think it's amusing that someonecommented on the list that now they'd haveto be careful about what they said to people.Glory, Hallelujah! Might go a long way tomaking Minneapolis a more pleasant place tolive if we all had to be a little morecourteous to each other."
I say: I w
T H E M I N N E A P O L I S O B S E R V E R
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www.mplsobserver.com
Vol. 2, No. 41
June 2, 2003
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THIS WEEK IN THE OBSERVER:
* City Needs a New Message, Study Says
* Workers Vote to Unionize at Wal
Antipoverty programs that "take care of Black folk" are part of a social
safety net takes care of whites too. The problem isn't the net, i.e., 'dependency
on hand outs' or the idea that blacks have to be taken care of by the
government. The problem is the lack of political will to make jobs, hou
In a message dated 6/1/03 9:17:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, PennBroKeith
writes:
> So please add it back to the lopsided equasion (equation). OK?
>
> Keith Reitman NearNorth
TEMPORARY REMINDER:
1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait.
2. If you don't like what's being discussed he
In a message dated 5/31/03 9:34:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
>
> This link is to the charities division of the Minnesota attorney general's
> office for one Minneapolis neighborhood. I don't know about other
> neighborhood assns... but this one is certainly an eye-
In a message dated 5/30/03 11:17:06 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Does anyone feel that it was in any way disingenuous
> of Smith Parker to hold a community meeting about
> changing the design of the 38th St bridge at the same
> time Tom Johnson's memo to PAC members ab
timothy connolly wrote:
This proposal has already been approved by the PS&RS
committee of the City Council. It was forwarded to the
Ways and Means/Budget committee which meets tomorrow
afternoon.
Just to get the right amount of paranoia going here -- while most people
have been talking about the i
Anne McCandless wrote:
> I am watching the news and just heard the reporter
> describe a car in a parking lot as a 'safe haven'
> for the permit holder's weapon. Do the legislators
> really think this is so? The gun would be much safer
> with the permit holder than in any car.
I believe tha
Chris Johnson writes:
> Gosh, if only it were true that NRP was "handling hundreds of millions
> of dollars." The NRP was planned to get $20 million a year
> for 20 years by the state legislature and the city starting in 1991.
> However, last year the legislature shot the cow that was funding
I am watching the news and just heard the reporter describe a car in a
parking lot as a 'safe haven' for the permit holder's weapon. Do the
legislators really think this is so? The gun would be much
safer with the permit holder than in any car. Have they looked at the
number of cars broke
Yes, that's $130,000 per year plus benefits for the director of two proposed
Parent Information Centers that will be run by the Minneapolis Branch of the
NAACP.
On March 25, 2003 the Minneapolis NAACP president, Albert Gallmon signed an
agreement with the state and received $152,000 for expense
Tim Bonham wrote, in response to Bill Cullen's posting below it:
> Yes, I'd say you were given bad advice. Or at least advice unresponsive
to
> your needs.
>
> Here's my advice to you:
> Look again at the check for legal fees, and note the signature on
> it. It is YOUR name, so this lawy
This proposal has already been approved by the PS&RS
committee of the City Council. It was forwarded to the
Ways and Means/Budget committee which meets tomorrow
afternoon.
I'm not sure if this proposal had a public hearing but
if it did not it certainly ought to have. It may have
gone to the Downt
Jim Graham says:
> Do even problem people and criminals deserve to live somewhere? The first
> answer might be NO, -- they deserve to become better people. The second
> answer is more fun, and it is YES. They deserve to live in the better
> neighborhoods that have treated them as throwaway probl
I noticed in a report in the Southwest Journal that the Mpls. City Council approved submitting a letter to Hennepin County expressing the City's concern regarding its (the county's) policy closing homeless emergency shelters during the summer months. This was an 11-0 vote.
This deserves
> Along with Jim and Peter J., I'd like to express my support for Vicki.
> As I've said in the past, I the rules for the List regarding civil
> discourse seem not apply when those expressing their viewpoints are
> considerably to the left or the right of the arrogant DFL center.
You're right, Pete
I also have been looing for free woodchips, which were plentiful last
year. I was wondering if the city was not trimming trees this year. . .
Allysen Hoberg
Audobon Park
-Original Message-
From: Dave Stack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 4:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECT
Because the last thing that our City government wants is a default on
the $62 million bond debt. Minneapolis now finds itself on the
receiving end of a kinder, gentler form of extortion.
Target may have determined that their Nicollet Mall building is worth
LESS than the $62 million debt? Rememb
OK, there's some kind of misunderstanding here:
I wrote:
'She goes so far as to claim that certain
developers have lied to the government to collect
funds for which they are not entitled. '
Ms. Heller responds:
"It's not that easy to prosecute Jim, because
when governmental entities are involved,
Folks: My apologies for having jumped the gun. This is only a proposal
now and not a done deal.
According to Skyway News the proposal will go to the City Council's
Public Safety and Regulatory Services Committee on May 21st. The article
does an excellent job of addressing the concerns of the
Regarding City Hall's partnership with Target:
Folks, I WAS WRONG when I said the new guard at City Hall is no better
than the old guard.
THE NEW GUARD IS EVEN WORSE!!!
If Mayor Rybak and the City Council feel the need to run a camera on our
streets why choose downtown when many residents from
Mr. Mork,
At our last MPRAC meeting, Mike Hatch could not make it and sent Chuck
Fergeson as his representative. Mr Fergeson stated that Hatch can only
work on 2 or 3 big projects at one time and right now he is still
entangled with the HMOs and that fiasco, so incriminating info we have
on some
Wait just a minute...
Where did you see this? I can't believe that folks aren't down at City
Hall protesting like mad, calling their council members, etc. over
this. It is one thing for Target to install security cameras inside their
store or even just at their doorway but what possible justi
Along with Jim and Peter J., I'd like to express my support for Vicki.
As I've said in the past, I the rules for the List regarding civil
discourse seem not apply when those expressing their viewpoints are
considerably to the left or the right of the arrogant DFL center.
Though Vicki and I are wo
Peter Jessen wrote:
As long as the DFL (with no resistance from the Rs or Gs or Is, etc.) holds
onto the fiction of the Kerner Commission Report of 1968, that Blacks can't
make it like other groups and therefore have to be taken care of by the
government, you will have this upside down world in wh
Michelle Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Amen, Jim McGuire! In addition to being mindless nationalistic drivel, requiring kids to recite the pledge of allegiance may well violate some of their religious or personal beliefs.
Pamela Taylor says:
Amen, Michelle! My mother became a Jehovah's Wi
The Public Safety Committee did instruct the inspections department to consult with The Advisory Board on Homelessness as to how the no camping/no sleeping in cars ordiances impacts people who are homeless.
Below is my response to the Public Safety Committee
Margaret Hastings - Mpls-
- Original Message -
From: BARBARA L MURRAY
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 7:16 PM
Vanessa,
I don't reply to folks often on this but I just
wanted to let you know the difference between owning a subsidized (affordable,
section -8) building vs. subsidies that g
Jim Mork writes:
"Her allegations SEEM to be the basis of
fraud prosecutions. She goes so far as to claim
that certain developers have lied to the
government to collect funds for which they are
not entitled."
Vicky answers:
It's not that easy to prosecute Jim, because when governmental
entities
So far, Skyway News is the only media outlet (that I know of) to cover this
story. For more information, see:
http://www.skywaynews.net/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2003/May/19-221
6-news01.txt
or, if that link breaks...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T2BE424C4
David Brauer
King Field
Edito
The city of Minneapolis, in a "public/private partnership" with the Target
corporation, is planning to install a downtown video-surveillance system to monitor
public streets.
In the age of Ashcroft, government and other organizations need to be reminded that
the result of increased security i
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