Used car salesmen are preferable to developers.
Imagine how much more just, pleasant, democratic, and affordable life in
the cities would be without them! Without them manipulating and diverting
council and park board members, misusing TIF and eminent domain and taxes.
Without their glossy songs
Greg Luce writes:
More and more, Minneapolis is pushing the poor
out, rather than lifting the poor up. Granted, getting folks out of poverty
is heavy lifting, but perhaps that explains why it's easier to shift people
out. It is, by far, the most discouraging thing I've seen since I've lived
David wrote:
Used car salesmen are preferable to developers.
Dori:
At least with car salesmen, you expect them to create an aura that will sell
you the car and it becomes a game to the winner goes the spoils. With
politics of late...some elected have become such controlling factors, the
I hope that there are a few people left in Minneapolis who haven't abandoned
their principles to keep their property taxes low.
Here's today's example:
Former Council Members Minn and Cherryhomes prance into the MCDA with
documents showing that their Stone Arch project is worth $33.5 million.
I have said it for some time now--To live in Minneapolis you are either
going to have to be very rich or very poor. Unfortunately, I am neither.
So I am finally leaving.
Property taxes are high and getting higher. Water service, car insurance,
home repairs, etc are all more expensive in
yYour logic is impecable. Very good explanation. But this is Minnesota.
I think that self-rightousness is scored on the drivers test as a
requirement though.
David Wilson
Loring Park
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Dan Prozinski wrote:
The logic of the zipper merge:
- when all available lanes are
Vicky writes:
I hope that there are a few people left in Minneapolis who haven't
abandoned
their principles to keep their property taxes low.
Former Council Members Minn and Cherryhomes prance into the MCDA with
documents showing that their Stone Arch project is worth $33.5 million.
Of
On 12/4/04 1:20 AM, Dyna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, the Taxpayer League argument against transit. And who's going to pay for
the repair costs of the sedans, fuel costs and insurance? Buying a car is
only one reason the poor don't have cars; operating costs are far bigger
over time. And my
Greg Luce wrote:
More and more, Minneapolis is pushing the poor out, rather than lifting the
poor up.
Me:
Amen Greg. Amen. Over the past few years, we have heard our leaders talk
about the need for affordable housing. They have poured millions into
housing projects across the city.
The
Bill Cullen writes:
It seems to me that the housing programs of Mpls created a) new, high
priced
housing and b) increased property taxes for existing housing. Not a
successful model to help the poor or lower-middle income.
snip
We can do better. I think the strib is on to something here.
As this relates to the example at Hennepin Avenue, the offended driver
should join in. It's been used like this for years and more cars are
allowed through the intersection with each light cycle... win/win.
It may be win/win, but I am looking for some kind of official statement on
whether this
Mark Snyder writes:
Now consider that another feature of hOurCar is that businesses can sign up
for this program rather than have to maintain their own stand-alone fleets
and all of the various costs associated with them.
Vicky adds:
I hope the City of Minneapolis signs up immediately. The
The Strib has a wonder series in their OpEd Section today which explains one
of the reasons why property taxes in the city are so high. In addition, the
series should give all of us food for thought. To even institute a small
portion of their suggestions will take extremely strong
MN == Michael Hohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MN Dorothy J. TItus states, in part...
...And now Center Point Energy proposes a gas rate hike that
will raise residential gas costs by 4% while raising business costs
by only 1%. And this comes on top of gas prices that are
I was told many years ago that Minneapolis had its own assessor because
it wanted to be able to control the assessments of the expensive downtown
properties. Only a very few people had access to those calculations.
At that time, 1969, the most expensive house in Minneapolis was assessed at
just
Dan Prozinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The logic of the zipper merge:
- when all available lanes are used, the traffic does not back up as
far to the rear
/snip/
all true benefits. Another one is the lower likelihood of stutter-start
(I think traffic engineers have another more technical
Seems like we've got two strands of outrage going on simultaneously:
taxpayers, particularly business owners, complaining about how much
city waste there is; and others complaining that the city is not doing
enough to get services to the poor. Maybe the fact that there's
outrage from both sides
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is that the suburbs and exurbs
are already dumping their social problems into the cities for us to
pay for.
It's not clear to me how suburbs dump their social problems into the
cities for (city taxpayers) to pay for. Can you provide some examples?
I
All I can say is that I'm glad someone is stepping forward on the
issue. As a student of urban and regional planning in California, the sometime
policy abberations charged to competition between chartered cities versus those
whose form is dictated by the state legislature are instructive:
I am taking a biking group I belong to (now hiking between the biking
and skiing seasons) on the LRT and to lunch. Can anyone suggest
restaurant locations within a reasonable walk of the line? Cedar
riverside area? These are mainly suburban upper crust women and I don't
want to hit the Mall for
Per Robert Goldman's comments below:
It's complicated, but pretty logical, yet not entirely obvious. I'll try to
keep it simple. If interested, read on... otherwise move on, you'll be
bored or lost.
They recoup their costs through a mixture of fixed price
+ per-therm charges. I don't think
There have been many posts lately about IRV, at- large representation
vs. wards or districts etc.. I am not so sure that any of these
changes will fix anything. The city has an at-large school board and
most of the school board members live in the areas that, low and behold
did not get
David Shove wrote:
Used car salesmen are preferable to developers.
WM: From your mouth to god's ears. One city assessor wants the car
dealers off Lake St. because there are developers ready to buy. And
there are. We, the people who live close to Lake St.--a mile each
direction--still buy our
On Sunday, December 5, 2004, at 11:00 AM, Anderson Turpin wrote:
I think the advantage of geographic proximity of council members is
vastly
over-rated. In the almost 30 years I've lived in Minneapolis, I have
never
once even known the location of any of my district representatives'
homes.
Liz Wielinski writes:
-Original Message-
The city has an at-large school board and
most of the school board members live in the areas that, low and behold
did not get school closings.
While I don't think there was a quid pro quo, the school board's at-large
structure invites such
Forwarded at the request of the sender...
Students in a public history course being taught at the University are
working on some projects related to the history of the Cedar Riverside
area. They are trying to fill in some gaps in the more recent history
(50's through the 90's) of the
gemgram wrote:
The City has the Sears building and opportunities for outside
development of the site.
WM: I sat in on the meetings with the Chicago Lake Design Review
Committee for years and every single developer who came along wanted
city money one way or another. It was made a TIF area as
I take serious issue with David Brauer on the subject of split
representation for elected boards and councils. Neither all-ward or all
at-large local policy bodies are a good thing. Whether the Mayor should
preside over a city council of this size in a city of this size is
questionable, but I'm
CITY WILL MAKE THE CALL ON SNOW EMERGENCIES
Next time the city declares a snow emergency, you're going to hear
about it in a phone call.
SCIENTIST REBUFFED BY MPCA WILL SPEAK HERE JAN. 22
Professor Tyrone Hayes, the University of California-Berkeley
endocrinologist whose views on agricultural
Rick Mons said:
This is the first I've read that the suburbs have social problems that are
somehow transferred to the cities
I think this refers to the fact that most suburban governments/constituents
won't allow social services and affordable housing to be located in their
cities through the
The current attempt by the Taxcheater's League and their Republican
Lackies in the Legislature and the Governor's Mansion to take all
progressivity out of the property tax system is the latest in a long
history of broken promises. Remember 40 acres and a mule, treaties, and
the massive land
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