[Mpls] Racial Bias;Circling Hawks;Culture in School

2003-09-03 Thread Jim Mork
Racial Bias I've mentioned this before in online discussions, but I'll bring it up again. The Ann Dunlap murder, to my knowledge, remains unsolved. And that goes along with hundreds of other murders that remain on the uncleared list at MPD. I think the murders in which nonwhites get arrested

[Mpls] Star Tribune and Mpls Issues List

2003-09-03 Thread Mark Wilde
The list manager wrote: The list IS NOT about everything that affects Minneapolitans in any way, or our 900 list members deem important. Wow, 900 members, that's fantastic, I have been a semi-loyal reader and poster for several years, and the information on the list is always timely and

[Mpls] Candidate info at libraries

2003-09-03 Thread Terrell Brown
Candidate Info I think the libraries could be a place where candidate info could be available. It could be posted online, and then it could be printed out so that people can pick it up rather than wait for a turn at the few workstations provided at the library. There's no reason that

[Mpls] StarTribune, seperate racial schools, differential incarceration

2003-09-03 Thread JIM GRAHAM
Even as a Democrat I must say I am astonished by some suggestions that have been made by liberals on this List of late. Star Tribune: Conservatives, because of its clear bias towards liberal politics, have labeled the Star Tribune as the Red Star and Tribunal! Now the left fringies are labeling

Re: [Mpls] Racial bias in the criminal court system/Bias in the Hood

2003-09-03 Thread PennBroKeith
In a message dated 9/2/03 2:25:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One thing that's become a recent interest of mine - these kids for the most part (especially the ones that don't live in the hood), have to reduce their ounces of pot into saleable packets somewhere (they

Re: [Mpls] Racial bias in the criminal court system/Bias in the Hood

2003-09-03 Thread Dennis Plante
Keith asks; Is it reasonable to expect the corner store owner/operator to refrain from selling exclusively drug-sales related paraphernalia, i.e., scales, microbags? I do not include papers or blunts. Subsequently, when said merchant touts all his efforts to help rid crime from his parking area

Re: [Mpls] Re: Overprosecution- Overconviction- Racist- Prove It-okay.

2003-09-03 Thread Chris Johnson
mike skoglund wrote: income? And so on and so on. I just don't see any way that these generalizations can be supported, and nothing very productive comes out of discussing generalizations. Regards, Mike Skoglund - NYC / MSP / 123 / Etc. That's an odd perspective. I can't imagine how we

Re: [Mpls] StarTribune, seperate racial schools, differential incarceration

2003-09-03 Thread Socialist2001
Minnesota's Desegregation Rule allows school districts to create racially imbalanced schools as long as predominantly black (Asian, Indian, Latino, etc.) schools and predominately white middle-class schools have roughly equivalent educational inputs. However, in racially segregated school

RE: [Mpls] Racial bias in the criminal court system/Bias in the Hood

2003-09-03 Thread Samuels, Don H
I am totally intolerant of this kind of inconsistency. Everybody has to step up to the plate and sacrifice the easy buck for the common good. The owner is free to sell all legal products, but in the light of our problems, exercising that right gets to the issue of community goodwill vs.

[Mpls] 88 Minneapolis Neighborhood Lists Now Active

2003-09-03 Thread Thomas T. Thai
Mailing lists for each Minneapolis neighborhood is now active. Also included is an MPD list for police specific discussions. Subscribe, join, make a difference, and tell a friend. Send an email to one of the addresses below to subscribe. Minneapolis - Armatage [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis -

[Mpls] Doug Grow on Mpls schools bureaucracy

2003-09-03 Thread David Brauer
Playing off a Strib copy editor/MPS teacher's tale, Grow unintentionally confirms Doug Mann's point about experience discrimination (my quotes) at poorer MPS schools. http://www.startribune.com/stories/465/4077565.html David Brauer Kingfield REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules?

Re: [Mpls] 88 Minneapolis Neighborhood Lists Now Active

2003-09-03 Thread Thomas T. Thai
quote who=Thomas T. Thai See Also: http://lists.minneseota.com/ Typo in the word Minnesota. Correction: http://lists.minnesota.com/ --- Thomas T. Thai // Whittier REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on

[Mpls] Inaccessable City Sponsored Housing- the Next Holman?

2003-09-03 Thread Dave Stack
Here is a brief email update on the Heritage park pollution issue sent on 27-Aug to the Harrison Nhbd Ass'n by an MPCA staffperson. --- Dave Stack, Harrison -- From: Carlson, Katherine Date: 27 Aug 2003 ... * Heritage Park: My colleague Mike

Re: [Mpls] Bias in the Hood/Man of Action and Mystery

2003-09-03 Thread PennBroKeith
In a message dated 9/3/03 5:36:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When we know who we are really dealing with at the core, we can exercise the appropriate amount of healthy cynicism and caution. There are some people we accept and some we guardedly tolerate. Inconsistent