[Mpls] Calling On All Mpls Landlords ( Tenants Too)!

2004-06-05 Thread Gregory Luce
Calling on all Minneapolis landlords (and tenants, painters, and homeowners too!)-please take five minutes out of your online life to complete a very brief survey about lead-based paint hazards and our efforts to reach out to landlords and others on the issue of disclosing these hazards before

[Mpls] U.S. Justice Department investigation-Stephen Porter, Jeff Jindra and Todd Babekuhl.

2004-06-05 Thread Shawn Lewis
It was really sad to watch media appointed black leaders try to argue this case in front of the cameras, not once but twice. You will see this pattern again and again. Stay tune. No charges against Minneapolis cops David Chanen, Star Tribune June 5, 2004

[Mpls] June is National Homeownership Month - It is now OUR TIME

2004-06-05 Thread gemgram
JUNE IS NATIONAL HOMEOWNERSHIP MONTH. 1. WHAT WILL MINNEAPOLIS DO DURING THIS MONTH? --How many homeownership opportunities will Minneapolis announce it is creating to commemorate the month? --How many families will be stabilized and lifted out of poverty by homeownership? --Will Minneapolis

[Mpls] Local bad actor takes the plunge/Moon crackstasher swoon chafes critics(reprint)

2004-06-05 Thread PennBroKeith
Keith says; I reprint my post of last October, less then a year has passed. Much has changed, much remains the same. It is of interest that we locals have learned the horrors of Abu Ghraib(sp?) in the last few weeks. We also know that an allegation of police brutality is not to be believed

[Mpls] Mpls Digest, Vol 6, debunking the debunkers

2004-06-05 Thread Gail
This is a bit out of sequence as it was rejected for being too long. Still I'd like to try again. In the June 3 Mpls Digest, Vol 6, Issue 5, Mark Snyder replied to mplsgordon with a disdainful critique of the research he had cited and an even more disdainful reference to the Cato Institute.

Re: [Mpls] debunking the debunkers?

2004-06-05 Thread Mark Snyder
Gail is right that ACSH has taken a generally apologetic stance on most issues involving chemicals. Their director, Elizabeth Whelan, describes herself as a lifelong conservative, more Libertarian then Republican. http://www.prwatch.org/improp/acsh.html This to me make ACSH's stance on tobacco

Re: [Mpls] Those damned statistics - ask and ye shall receive

2004-06-05 Thread Mark Snyder
On 6/4/04 6:16 AM, Michael C. Libby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cigarette smoke is toxic? No it isn't. I inhaled a bunch of it last night because I was near some smokers and I didn't even get sick, let alone die. That's some poison! I think Terrell Brown already answered this point

RE: [Mpls] Those damned statistics - ask and ye shall receive

2004-06-05 Thread Michael Atherton
Mark Snyder wrote: So while we sit around and twiddle our thumbs waiting for the scientists to build up the overwhelming pile of research that secondhand smoke is toxic that folks like Michael insist upon before a ban can be enacted, people continue to be harmed. I proposed a solution to