List members, You may have already heard about these young spoken word
artisits, you may have seen them; if you havent heard or seen them, you must
come to the Northside's premier coffee shop, The Bean Scene, for their final
performance before heading to San Fran. Hope to see you there, we'd
I noted in today's Strib that Mayor Rybak took credit for getting the Sears
deal done and Peter McLaughlin noted that the deal had been in the works for
years with many people making it happen.
I find it is always cause for concern when one person takes credit on the
backs of the work of
The NY Times has two great articles today on our newly expanded museum.
Both rave about the addition with the 2nd article by New Yorker Holland
Cotter ending with, It has grown in size, but it has remained the
institution it has always been...I only wish it could expand itself all the
way to New
Looking for a little free brain food this weekend? I
can think of nothing better than this free conference
at the U featuring Vandana Shiva and Naomi Klein among
many distinguished an popular authors, scholars, and
activists.
David Strand
Loring Park
Architecture Review | Walker Art Center: An Expansion Gives New Life to an Old
Box
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
http://tinyurl.com/al9l3
and
Art Review: Probing Fringes, Finding Stars
By HOLLAND COTTER
http://tinyurl.com/7lquc
--
Robert P. Goldman
ECCO
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
REMINDERS:
1. Be civil!
Conflicting info on storm water fees from yours truly and Nick Coleman.
In my editorial in the new SW Journal, I wrote:
For homeowners the pain isnt huge despite what you may hear, a bill
cant go up by more than $10.60 a month, or $127 a year. (Almost all
increases are smaller, and because of
Dean Zimmermann's aide Natalie Collins speedily reconciled the
reporting discrepancy between Nick Coleman and I.
Nick's subject owns a duplex lumped together with all multi-family
uses for stormwater fees. I was writing about single-family homeowners
... who are probably most of Nick's
The stormwater rate is multipled by the number of ESUs (estimated stormwater
units) that the property has been assigned. So it most definitely IS
possible to have a $37 bump up in fees.
In my case, my water bill was $34 a month. The city guessed that I had 2.38
ESUs (it's actually 1.17). They
Personally, I think Nick should've specified his subject's home also
included a rental unit, so the majority of his readers would know his
example didn't apply to them (the rates for single-family homes are
capped at $10.90 a month).
Personally, I think Nick purposefully left it out to
On Apr 15, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Dorothy Titus wrote:
The stormwater rate is multipled by the number of ESUs (estimated
stormwater
units) that the property has been assigned. So it most definitely IS
possible to have a $37 bump up in fees.
Dorothy's woes are a screw-up in administering the policy,
Thanks for the clarification, David, but that's not how my bill reads. It
said 2.38 ESUs @ $8.72 = $20.75 and added $20.75 to my water bill on this
line.
Dorothy (Dottie) Titus, Executive Director
Jordan Area Community Council
2507 Fremont Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55411
612-529-9267
I read the posts on A little media disagreement and conclude that the
problem is not so much a difference between analysis by different media
but that the whole storm water fee was an idea that wasn't completely
thought through before it was put into place.
The fact is that nobody can seem to
I think Steve is on to something here, but wait, it gets weirder. I was one of
the lucky households, I guess, in that my total bill went down about $3.00 --
just like the SW Journal table said it would :o)
However went I went to the City's web page to pay my bill-online, (which is a
cool
I have a couple of comments tonight.
I am a non smoker. As far as I know, although I am
quite opinionated, I am neither pious nor smug. I don't believe that as a non
smoker I rate the vitriol being aimed at me and others like me simply because I
do not smoke. Oh yes, no one will be pimp
I thought that the people who posted regarding this topic were respectful.
Forgive me if I missed a post that was not.
The person who presented what I referred to as the sociobiological view was
not disrespectful in my opinion. It was an honest point of view on their part.
I did not agree
In response to Michael Atherton's latest post re smoke or drink:
I am a non smoker, I have come to decide I am happy with the ban. I do not have
a problem with gay folks. I
don't care if they want to marry. I don't see how it
hurts anyone. It won't affect my family or the families of any of my
It may be of interest to those who came in late, that the rape topic
originally came up when a member suggested that the smoking ban would result in
more
cases of sexual assaults on women smokers who he posited would leave their
drinks unattended to go for a smoking break thus making it easier
I will be out of the office starting 04/15/2005 and will not return until
04/18/2005.
I will respond to your message when I return on Monday.
REMINDERS:
1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If
you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager
I testified at the Met Council about the cuts to bus service. The testimony
that day was eloquent and heart wrenching, with both pleas to not cut
particular routes and not to abandon effective mass transit when it is clearly
the
right thing to do.
These public hearings are really a
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