Without question, some areas in North Minneapolis needs some help-NOW
New voices and new leaders need to be tapped into not the same old people.
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What to do? Vigils, flowers and prayers aren't enough.
I agree that Inspections has not changed all that much. When I purchased my
home, the brick and stucco (ie not wood frame) mother in law cottage in
the rear was rented, as it had been for decades. In fact it was built
before the main house.
I continued to rent it. At some point, some
Dorothy Titus makes a pretty strong point about being an entire shift short of
officers. I know the cops are currently expected to do way more with less. They
have taken on responsibility to start the investigation at the time of the
police call. That adds time to each crime. I know non-violent
There's an article in the NYT today,
State Taxpayers Providing Relief to Military Families.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/national/08tax.html
I was wondering if there exists or is any discussion
of providing Minneapolis property tax relief for
Guard members serving in Iraq?
Michael
The Rules Committee for the Second Ward met last night. Its members
were selected on the basis of two delegates per precinct rather than a
proportion of the size of the delegation from each precinct. And it
appears that Dan Miller's people rushed to fill the two slots in as many
precincts as
Star Tribune Editorial Excerpt:
Proactive policing means that cops will question loiterers
and jaywalkers, stop cars for minor violations and get into
the faces of more people. It's a proven tactic: Stopping petty
offenses also stops major ones. But it also requires the cooperation
and
Just out of curiosity, has anyone that's dealt with city inspectors made
them point out the regulations regarding the changes + dbl checked that
they're being properly interpreted? I'm asking this because my impression
of inspectors is that they tend to do what they think is right but that
As a person that has received the traing to be a housing inspector, as well as
building inspector, we are taught to follow the codes and ordinances. We are
also taught to work with the clients being inspected to help them understand
the issue. We are also told by our instructors that we will
In general, the change to charging for storm water runoff is a good idea but
I'm guessing something is wrong someplace. But Scott, I'd love to here from
the people who actually provided these estimates.
Scott Vreeland:
snip... What does this mean to the average single-family residential
Next Strib excerpt:
The police also need more information from neighbors and more
intolerance -- not toward the police but toward criminals and
their drug-buying customers.
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JSK - this might be easy to say, but not practical to carry out. The
I wanted to clarify some information in the Spokesman Recorder's March 2
article about the Eighth Ward candidate forum on transportation.
The article incorrectly reported that Jeff Hayden is a representative of the
Midtown Greenway and Powderhorn Park. Jeff did not serve on the Midtown
This is the kind of game playing that not only frustrates the new
people brought into the process but is also a bit of whining that the
youngsters have figures out the game and are now using it in their
favor to win against the establishment. I do not have a favorite in
this race and am more
I challenge BRT proponents to try catching the bus at
Lake Street and I35. It is a spiritually degrading
experience, staring down the traffic speeding by at
60+ miles per hour. I don't think anyone that catches
the bus there would do so if they didn't have to.
What will future BRT look like?
I
Michael Atherton asks: I was wondering if there exists or is any
discussion
of providing Minneapolis property tax relief for
Guard members serving in Iraq?
Brandt: Assuming that Michael was serious, and not just throwing in a
Minneapolis reference to justify a posting on this topic, here are
Hello List!
BL. States: We head into yet another summer with no plans to address crime
in impacted inner-city neighborhoods and no talk of developing a
concerted plan to address it except to demand we add more police to arrest
more people who won't go to
Jail or treatment.
VF: There is no
Well, well. After almost two decades of evasion, denial, half-truths,
and outright lying, the Strib has managed to bring itself to admit
that, yes, an unacceptable disparity exists between the levels of
safety provided by Minneapolis to its poor neighborhoods and its
affluent ones (editorial,
I've been seeing a lot on the issues list about the need for more police and
how to pay for them. I think we simply need to 1) make this a priority and 2)
figure out how to pay for it. I think challenging our leaders with how to pay
for it is productive to a point, but what is the other
Since LRT has 3 times the cost of BRT, I think they'll be able to afford
fixing up the Lake Street stop. And next time you're stuck on 35W or
traffic elsewhere, keep in mind with the money that was spent to run a train
from downtown to Bloomington, a couple of BRT lines could've been built.
I hear JSK about his concerns that we will become a police state. Is
it better to become a gang state? It may sound excessive to have
police checking in with people who seem to be doing innocuous things,
but I remember the police reports from two summers ago when they began
patrolling on
Here is a fair question (I feel) to pose. Whereas discussing livability
conditions within the different Minneapolis neighborhoods seems to be a very
subjective issue and there are numerous thoughts on what should be done, or
even whose responsibility it is to get it done. I'd be interested to
For Vanessa,
No, I'm not running for office. I was not trying to single her out as
someone with super human abilities. I was filled with admiration for
her and how she is handling this tragedy, and I wanted both to put a
human face on the tragedy and, hopefully, light a bit of a fire under
The Mayor and the city council spent more than they had budgeted to bring in
the new Police Chief, William McManus. They and others said more needed to
be done for the police to improve community relations, reduce police
brutality, and other such things. Resources and bodies have been shuffled
Statistics geek extraordinaire Tim Bonham was nice enough to
drag out the ballot totals from past conventions that he has been
kind enough to safe keep. Thank you, but I was referring to blocks of
delegates who attended the convention but manipulated or outright
blocked an endorsement. For
Dyna Writes:
My fellow habitant of the 'hood Dennis Plante suggests that criminal
prosecution is needed to force citizens to maintain there property. Our city
tried that strategy and it failed In safe and stable communities a
homeowner's investment in their property is rewarded with decades
Who said anything about casino gambling and commercial sex? It is
really a simple point: smoking cigarettes is like a host of other
activities - it is not something you get to do whenever and wherever you
want!
As to the notion that limiting choices is making life unfair,. well
that is quite
Jim Bernstein wrote:
Who said anything about casino gambling and commercial sex? It is
really a simple point: smoking cigarettes is like a host of other
activities - it is not something you get to do whenever and
wherever you want!
Well actually you did. You said, Like drinking,
Paul Weir: Alas,the editors and reporters need to learn some history,
master a few facts, talk to some knowledgeable people, and only then
pronounce ex
cathedra on issues of crime and safety.
Brandt: While all due respect to Paul's points, reporters don't write
editorials. That's why so many
-Original Message-
From Michael Atherton
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 2:48 PM
The problem here is when it is acceptable to limit others' choices.
The Nazis (and many others) thought it was acceptable to limit the
choices of Jews by restricting them to ghettos. The Puritans
limited
It does appear that choices are only allowed if the
correct people approve. The extemists of the ruling
party
have deemed smoking unacceptable so its out. Target
was deemed acceptable so homeless are out and the
store is in. Oh wait these same folks support homeless
but they did need that store
On behalf of Dan and his supporters, I would like to clarify a few
things regarding the rules for endorsement in Ward 2.
1) We would like to see an endorsement come out of the ward convention
and Dan will abide by the endorsement.
2) We believe that the convention should be inclusive of
Many people have told me that they want to do something about the Hood Stores.
On March 21 at 6:00pm at the Minneapolis Urban League I will be convening a
meeting of the Get Right Committee. The purpose of this committee will be to
organize and rid our neighborhoods of these stores or make them
Elizabeth McCann said (with my own tart responses in parenthesis)
On behalf of Dan and his supporters, I would like to clarify a few
things regarding the rules for endorsement in Ward 2.
(Clarify -- that's a great term here. The problem is NOT lack of clarity on what Dan's campaign wants to do.
Call me stupid but first off what is a Hood Store and what do they sell
thats so offensive?
David Brady
Downtown
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Below is the text of a letter from PIC board chair Beverly Propes to project
manager Marceline Dubois (MN department of Education), dated January 31, 2005.
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January 31, 2005
Marceline Dubose
Office of Choice and Innovation
1500 Highway #36 West
Roseville, MN 55113
Dear
I'm an outsider with respect to Ward 2, but as former chair of the city
DFL, and a long-time believer in the endorsement process, I have to
concur with Mr. Cross. The actual substance of the proposed rules will
result in no endorsement, especially in a convention with more than two
viable
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As one from the southside who lives in a neighborhood that has been inundated
with hood stores I will describe what life is like to live by one that is 3
houses from where I live...
I moved here in 1991. Since that time there have 13 owners of the local hood
store. Many tried to make a go of
In September of 2004 I wrote an article about sex offenders and today a
relative of the sex offender on my block told me that James Vanwyhe is a
fugitive from justice because he committed another sex offense and went on the
run. I just don't understand why these people get to rome free in my
Yep---cigarettes and heroin. Class I drugs. That's the ticket.
Remember, if that happens, the politicos withdrawal from the addiction to
tobacco tax revenue will rival a heroin addict's withdrawal from smack. If
cigs are so bad, let's get them banned. Today. Forever. So we can move on to
other
On 3/7/05 6:09 PM, steven meldahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I bought another single family rehab project last October in North
Minneapolis. I pulled my rehab permits and began the needed work immediately.
When I finished the remodeling work in mid January, I put the house up for
rent and
Terrell Brown wrote:
[TB] Now you're comparing smoking bans to the behavior of
the Nazis? Get real.
I think that I am being very real. I guess I've just studied
too much psychology to not see a difference in the degree
of intolerance, i.e., people who do not recognize the rights
of
With all due respect, Mr. Hodges, I see you working here. Many people across
the country share your sentiments about where SOs are housed.
As somebody who has spent much of his career working with SOs, I can tell
you that, for the most part, your proposals about distances from day cares
and youth
I completely agree with Steve Cross and Greg Abbott. The proposed rules
for Ward 2 are designed to thwart endorsement. In my first campaign a
six ballot limit was enough to stop the endorsement which I missed by
two votes. The DFL Standard rules are fine and we accepted them without
even setting
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