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Vol. 2, No. 45
June 30, 2003
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I apologize for the recent blank message. Here is what I meant to say. An important
article appeared in Saturday's Star Tribune comparing the operating costs of the
Minneapolis and St. Paul school districts.
On one side of the Mississippi River this week somber Minneapolis school leaders
On 6/29/03 8:11 PM, Anderson Turpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Anderson reply:
I've been in the business world for 25 years, and I've seen over and over
again that big companies pay higher wages on average than smaller companies.
Do you have any statistics, or even anecdotes, that would
Well, I spent an afternoon walking around Calhoun and talking to people
about what they thought about closing the parkways around Calhoun, and
Lake of the Isles and part of Victor Memorial Parkway the last Sunday of
each month.
WOW. It was really odd to walk around Calhoun and hear no vehicles,
on 6/30/03 8:01 AM, Dooley, Bill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One eye-popping statistic: Minneapolis spends 70 percent more than St. Paul
for administrative costs.
One statistic I would have liked in the article is a comparison of test scores
between Minneapolis and St. Paul students. Maybe
I only saw the front of the parade, but it appeared that cross traffic interrupted the
smooth
flow. Was cross-traffic allowed throughout the whole parade and, if so, why?
Regards,
Jason Stone | Hale
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On Monday, June 30, the Neighborhood Revitalization Program Policy Board
will
vote on Council Member Ostrow's proposal to allocate $1 million of its
Phase II
funds to a reserve fund for community oriented public safety activities.
I am probably going to vote against this but I would
--- Karen Forbes wrote:
NRP is about improving the quality of life in our neighborhoods.
[TB] I'd always thought NRP was centered around
maintaining/improving the quality of the housing stock which is why
over half of the money is required to be spent on housing/housing
related items.
Hello All,
Yesterday was the MOST fun I've had in a Pride parade.
My partner Gary Schiff, council member for the Ninth
Ward, and I rode in a Mini Cooper. Gary waved, and I
held and waved a sign.
As folks have pointed out on the list, the sign had a
tasteful side and a less tasteful side. The
Additionally, before the festival I was not able to find reference to it in the Strib
online list
of festivals. Perhaps I missed something?
In reference to my previous post, I've already heard back from a list member that
throughout the
parade, cross-traffic was permitted. I have never seen
Dyna Sluyter wrote:
With road building Republicans in power and the
Princess of Pavement
at the wheel of the Highway Department, anything is
possible...
David Piehl adds:
I agree with Dyna's assessment of the current
Republican state government as multimodally
I just wanted to clarify some information in today's Strib article regarding
NRP.
It is reported that, The handful of such [neighborhood] groups that have
responded generally favor the plan.
This does not match the information provided to me and indicates more support
IMHO for the idea than
Shame on Terrell Brown for expressing a personal opinion regarding the sign that Council Member Schiffassociated himself with this weekend.Freedom of speech, tolerance to other ideals (regardless of what they are)and non-conformity to a specificway of thinking, is exactly what got us to the place
Cam Gordon is correct on the neighborhood pro-con count contained in the
NRP board's packet. For my article, I checked with the NRP office
earlier in the week, when the count was 5 for and two opposed. I
thought I had checked the packet, but I must have rechecked my original
pile of resolutions.
The practice of free speech is often tasteless and worse, deadly.
Codifying the obvious is a dirty job, but in this case Terrell had to do
it. Good on him.
Strom Thurmond was 100 years old. One cannot get too excited over the
fact that he died. It was somehow much worse in my mind that
Jim Berg wrote:
As folks have pointed out on the list, the sign had a
tasteful side and a less tasteful side. The tasteful
side said Thank You Supreme Court. When the crowd
saw that side they cheered. The less tasteful side
said, Goodbye Strom Thurmond. When the crowd saw
that side, they
In an admission of guilt, On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 10:32 AM, Jim
Berg wrote:
Yesterday was the MOST fun I've had in a Pride parade.
My partner Gary Schiff, council member for the Ninth
Ward, and I rode in a Mini Cooper. Gary waved, and I
held and waved a sign.
That was not a Mini you drove,
At the Minneapolis NAACP branch meeting on June 28 the membership approved a
motion by Evelyn Eubanks to back out of the deal to set up Parent Information
Centers. The motion cited a conflict of interest due to the NAACP's obligation
to oversee the implementation of the agreement to settle the
Interesting post from the gentleman who set up a nice gun-law straw man to
knock down. The conceal-carry law is one month old. Wheres the bloodbath?
I havent predicted such a thing, and I havent heard others do so. However,
hes made it clear that the gun lobby thinks any law that doesnt
There's been a lot of discussion lately about the financial problems
facing not just the city of Minneapolis, but the three separately
chartered entities that act as quasi-city units: the school system, the
park board and the library board.
The library board wants to know which of three
Second, and so last, post of the day to reply to Dyna.
I'm not sure what she's referring to here:
I also saw your tasteless attempt to sneak up front
with the Wellstone Green Bus and successfully set a
pick on you.
I'll just say that all the DFLers were together in a
group with the Wellstone bus
Annie Young wrote:
Wish folks would get their facts straight before they start ranting and
raving at us.
And I wish folks, especially elected government officials like yourself,
would learn to read for comprehension. No where are my facts wrong, not
even where you seem to attack them, except
I was recently made aware of the discussion going on about the proposed
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project between Minneapolis and Rogers. I
noticed that there seem to be some questions about the proposed
design,
how it might work, etc.
Please visit the Metro Transit website at
Forwarded on behalf of Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Carol
Johnson.
June 28, 2003
To The Editor:
Saturday's A1 article, A Great Divide Between Districts, seeks to
explain how Minneapolis and St. Paul schools are facing quite different
budget scenarios for the coming year.
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Carol Johnson wrote:
Irresponsible, perhaps even lazy, reporting led to the use of data
that lacked analytical context and appeared to be intentionally
misleading.
Boy, if this isn't the pot calling the kettle black I'm not
sure what is. The MPS have intentional misrepresented their
data
--- List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Forwarded on behalf of Minneapolis Public Schools
Superintendent Carol
Johnson.
June 28, 2003
To The Editor:
Saturday's A1 article, A Great Divide Between
Districts, seeks to
explain how Minneapolis and St. Paul schools are
facing quite
I will be out of the office starting 06/30/2003 and will not return until
08/07/2003.
Please contact Kate Nilan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 612-348-2146
with immediate questions. I will answer your e-mail when I return August
7.
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Where in Minneapolis can I sign a petition? Today's Star Tribune article
mentions a rally in Eagan and I've seen other references to a petition, but
how can I sign?
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3962907.html
Paul Barber
Loring Park
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Chris Johnson wrote:
The library system appears to have an annual operating budget of about
$22 million. Given that they are building a new building, clearly
there's a bunch of capital program money not mentioned on their web
site budget page.
WM: The library successfully floated a
The library system appears to have an annual operating budget of about
$22 million. Given that they are building a new building, clearly
there's a bunch of capital program money not mentioned on their website
budget page. The library executive gets paid about $130,000 a year.
The
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3965009.html
David Brauer
List manager
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Jean is correct that lawsuits are costing the city big bucks. As
I've pointed out previously, lawsuits and claims paid related to police
activities cost the city over $13 million in the last five years for
which there is data (only partial-year data for 2001), according to
information obtained
Anybody else think there's something a little
oneSIDED when Democrats talk politics at the
memorial of a political scientist and get a
backlash. Or a DFL council member notes the
passing of a leading racist and is threatened
with a backlash. Yet a major party of the
RIGHT does one outrageous
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