[Mpls] Strike for Health Care

2004-04-04 Thread David Shove
will be: support the strikers, urge Pawlenty to settle, and solve the health care crisis. For more information on this, contact Jared Lodge, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or 651-485-2915. --fwd David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager a

Re: [Mpls] MTC - Can we ELECT the Met Council?

2004-04-05 Thread David Shove
hing. Let us not go quiet into that dark night. --David Shove Roseville On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Bob Spaulding wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Mpls forum): > > I know this is really crazy, but why shouldn't > Minneapolis opt out of the > > Metro transit system? > > &

[Mpls] DEMOCRACY NOW'S 70-CITY EXCEPTION TO THE RULERS TOUR (fwd)

2004-04-10 Thread David Shove
, please email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please put the name of your town and state in the subject line. --fwd David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore

Re: [Mpls] Apache Plaza to be replaced by Wal-Mart? Say it ain't so!

2004-04-13 Thread David Shove
arth. It is the enemy summed up in one world-consuming monster. Shopping at WalMart is voting for corporate rule, child labor, the end of democracy. I hope there will be organized resistence against WalMart in Apache Plaza. Better a huge vacant lot. --David Shove Roseville On Tue, 13 Apr 2004,

Re: [Mpls] Park Board meeting report

2004-04-23 Thread David Shove
to do this next election. Meanwhile, eternal vigilance is the price of the park system. --David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait.

Re: [Mpls] Control of Indoor Air Pollution

2004-04-23 Thread David Shove
cides. I'll bet they'd do very well - I'd go - and then some other bars would go smokeless, and the tobacco lobby would have a fit. They can see that far ahead, and so will do all they can to make sure we never have the choice. May they rot in nicotine and carcinogens. --David Shove ros

Re: [Mpls] No more mindless smoking bans

2004-04-23 Thread David Shove
The REAL elitists are the ruling-class bozos running the corporations, corporations out to stripmine the public and democracy. So, I don't buy this hackneyed defense of smoking. I am a progressive standing up and saying, Ban it, without guilt. May the guilt-trippers find another life to live.

Re: [Mpls] Smoking ban in Mpls -- YES!

2004-05-10 Thread David Shove
YES! ...and StPaul, and Roseville -- David Shove roseville REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see:

Re: [Mpls] Control of Indoor Air Pollution

2004-04-25 Thread David Shove
Eric I'm happy to hear of smokefree Jetset. What are the other smokefree bars in thisd area? We should build up a list, then support them, and give other bars reason to go smokefree. --Davis Shove Roseville On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Eric Meininger, MD wrote: > > > >If running a smoke free bar is so

[Mpls] URGENT - stadium - Call Today

2004-04-26 Thread David Shove
296-4262 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Rukavina (DFL) 296-0170 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katie Sieben (DFL) 296-4342 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ex-officio Jim Knoblach (R) 296-6316 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --fwd David Shove Roseville We don't know which area(s) - StPaul, Mpls, Anoka - are really targeted, so this post concern

Re: [MPLS] Sears Project TIF estimate climbs

2004-05-03 Thread David Shove
rocess. And Tactic it is - forget business, forget serving the public with some product or service - one is in the game of getting tax breaks. It doesn't matter for what. It's all and only about fleecing the public to finance a bloated lifestyle. --David Shove Roseville On Mon, 3 May 2004, l

RE: [Mpls] 50 year anniversary of Brown v.s. Board of Education - Howdoes Minneapolis measure up today?

2004-05-18 Thread David Shove
That's why we need 100% State Aid to Schools. That is, the state should pay 100% of school costs, from state taxes. None should come from local property taxes. That way the only way Edina could have good public schools is to help fund equally good inner city schools. --David Shove REM

Re: [Mpls] My new neighbor, Wal-Mart

2004-05-26 Thread David Shove
put into parking. Anyway, outrageously large. I would like to see a cap of say 40,000 to 50,000 sq ft put into city ordinances in Mpls & StPaul and Roseville etc, and then once it is seen as popular, made state-wide. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 26 May 2004, Mike Jensvold wrote: > Ho

Re: [Mpls] Who's winning the Tobacco War?

2004-05-29 Thread David Shove
o the ban must be total. No exceptions. No holes in the dike. Time for a total loss for Big Tobacco. A total win for public health. Total. Now. --David Shove Roseville On Sat, 29 May 2004, Gary Hoover wrote: > I recommend Ed Felien's article in the Pulse to all as essentail back

Re: [Mpls] smoking ban

2004-06-02 Thread David Shove
the whole enchilada, and dismiss the opposition with a snide butt-kicking jeer? --David Shove roseville On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, gemgram wrote: > I have been waiting for an appeal of my "ban" from the List, before > continuing to post, but just could not resist Eddie Felien's post. I g

Re: [Mpls] Rybak opposes smoking ban unless modifications are made

2004-06-13 Thread David Shove
nothing. A complete and total ban. Anytbing else and it will be undermined in a few months or years. Stop these criminals now. --David Shove Roseville On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Robert Yorga wrote: > Hello all, > > This whole thing is being looked at the wrong way.let's have both.. &

Re: [Mpls] smoking and free markets 101

2004-06-14 Thread David Shove
Amen. --David Shove Roseville On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, ken bradley wrote: > > Ken Bradley writes: I couldn't agree more as someone who has also > struggled with tobacco addiction, and the health problems that come with > it, that the hospitality industry should not be protect

Re: [Mpls] Smoking Ban Info: Two Super Resources

2004-06-15 Thread David Shove
f our exploiters. So we have to be diligent, working constantly against the acid influence of Big Money. We need to start now with Rybak and Kelly. They need to be Somewhere Else. --David Shove Roseville On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Gary Hoover wrote: > > The Mayors of St Paul and Minneapolis have cave

Re: [Mpls] Smoking Ban Info: Two Super Resources

2004-06-16 Thread David Shove
est elite level, wipe out all small and medium businesses, all local businesses, fill the world with big box chains run from NYC or the Grand Cayman Islands. Right here in the cities is about the only level left that the people have any power - by default it is the area we must work and win in.

[Mpls] Racist, Anti-Progressive Gerrymandering In Minneapolis

2004-06-17 Thread David Shove
/ St. Paul IMC: http://twincities.indymedia.org/ --- fw David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-d

Re: [Mpls] Smoking Ban Info: Two Super Resources

2004-06-17 Thread David Shove
place, you choose bars. And then we are right back where we started, no ban, no non-smoking bars, a total victory for Big Tobacco and perhaps some part of the 20% who smoke, and nothing for the 80% who don't. When corporations succeed in stuffing our heads with myths, we all lose. --David Shove

RE: [Mpls] Re: Smokers need fun too

2004-06-23 Thread David Shove
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Jim Bernstein wrote: > Smokers just want to smoke and don't give a damn about the other people > in the room! Smoking is never having to say you're sorry. Arrogance thy name is smoker. --David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the

[Mpls] Protest Cheney in Mpls 7.17 8/9:30/10am

2004-07-15 Thread David Shove
g Earth far faster and more overtly than any previous administration dared. It is time we stopped ignoring reality and started becoming involved in shaping a viable vision for the human race. The the truth, and the planet cannot survive inaction. --fwd by David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Th

[Mpls] GPSP press release on Smoking Ban

2004-07-22 Thread David Shove
The Green Party of StPaul, representing Minnesota's 4th Congressional District, supports the most widespread smoking ban possible in bars and restaurants as the solution that would most benefit both public health and business interests. However, we do not believe the absence of a regional or natio

Re: [Mpls] MAC Attack

2004-07-22 Thread David Shove
ican is to be a corporate patsy in a class war he/she denies exists. --David Shove Roseville On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Steve Nelson wrote: > Dorie Rae Gallagher > Nokomis East > wrote > "Northwest got what Northwest wanted and now it all seems fuzzy on what was > to be done for the res

Re: [Mpls] Bus tour

2004-07-31 Thread David Shove
not re-elected). It forces the people in the better off areas to care for everyone, not just their better-off selves. So you can imagine who might be for it, who against. The Green Party favors PR; if you want PR, vote Green. --David Shove Roseville > After reading the morning paper today (Stri

RE: [Mpls] Clic report on some funding ..Libraries verus bike trails

2004-07-31 Thread David Shove
Fewer council persons means bigger districts, less responsiveness, less democracy. A bad idea. --David Shove Roseville On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Allen wrote: > > > For sources of funding for the trail system, I would suggest to start with > trimming the city council back to a reasonab

Re: [Mpls] Re: "lrt parking misplanning"

2004-08-03 Thread David Shove
use PRT is on elevated guideways, it does not impede car traffic, and is not impeded by it - just as unimpeded during rush hours as off hours. What's not to love? --David Shove roseville On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Bruce Gaarder wrote: > Gina makes good points, as does David. > > I don

re: [Mpls] Red Light Cameras

2004-08-26 Thread David Shove
I would like the cameras in linen closets, bedrooms, baths. "Do not remove under penalty of law" tag removal could be the beginning of a life of crime. Let's hit these scofflaws where they least expect it. --David Shove Roseville On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Connie Beckers The Goddess

[Mpls] Re: [StPaul] Response to Taxpayers League push to rename Olson Highway

2004-08-27 Thread David Shove
financed elections, welfare for the poor. Floyd B Olson was on the right track. Reagan and his henchmen have shown us just how bad, corrupt, and toxic is rule by big money, blue blood families, and corporations. Don't trust anyone over $1,000,000,000.00 --David Shove On Fri, 27 Aug 2004,

[Mpls] Tom Van Lear, SOCIALIST Mpls mayor

2004-08-27 Thread David Shove
om Van Lear Memorial Bill! --David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democ

Re: [Mpls] Re: [TCMetro] Re: [StPaul] Response to Taxpayers League push to rename Olson Highway

2004-08-29 Thread David Shove
greed. Trickle DOWN is where the rich trickle ON us. The only kind of golden showers we'll get from them. Reclaim your city from the rich bamboozlers - find out what's going on, and take action! --David Shove REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMA

[Mpls] Re: [TCMetro] Re: [StPaul] Response to Taxpayers League push to rename Olson Highway

2004-08-31 Thread David Shove
ve to be perfect places around the cities for: Greed Gardens, Invasion Isles, Serf Street, Aristocrat Avenue, etc. Why, in just a few years, every man would be an island, doing to others before they do it to him. Or, we could decide that things have gone this wrong way for far too long, and renew ou

Re: [Mpls] Air pollution advisory

2004-09-03 Thread David Shove
uzzah! Excelsior! Let us all be willing to lay down a teeny tiny bit of our health so that a glorious few may enjoy unparalleled luxury and power! Think of Their Happiness as you inhale and your lungs fill with the announced fine particles! It's for them! --David Shove Roseville

[Mpls] Nader in MN 9.16 6/8pm

2004-09-09 Thread David Shove
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:26:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Danene Provencher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Nader in MN 9.16 6/8pm Thursday Sept 16 6pm The Weyerhaeuser Chapel at Macalester College 1600 Grand Ave. StPaul Between Snelling Ave and Macalester St. 8pm Ted

[Mpls] Re: Goosed

2004-09-15 Thread David Shove
oose poop on a stick! Yum yum! Batter-fried mini goose poops! Delicious! and best of all Pronto Poops! To die for! --David Shove Roseville celebrating the business end of geese REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list man

RE: [Mpls] RE: Kahn's Crime

2004-09-30 Thread David Shove
Those who don't want to vote for Kahn, and don't want to vote for the Republican, can always vote for the Green, Becki Smith. --David Shove REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't

Re: [Mpls] Phyllis Kahn: Obstructing democracy.

2004-09-30 Thread David Shove
noblesse oblige. --David Shove PS is is always open to Rep Kahn to post her version of her argument here. Then we won't need my words (and inferences), we can deal directly with hers. On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > People in this forum are missing the point.

Re: [Mpls] Speaking of Traffic on Hiawatha Avenue

2004-10-08 Thread David Shove
don't want them to get that first compelling life-changing taste. See a PRT demo at Taxi 2000 in Fridley, about 80th and University Av. --David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list

Re: [Mpls] Speaking of Traffic on Hiawatha Avenue

2004-10-08 Thread David Shove
an be bait and switched. Take land and money under cover of the bus, then after a few months, yield to the (orchestrated) "overwhelming public demand" to fill the bus lane with cars. LRT can't be switched, so of course the highway men don't want it there. --David Shove REMINDE

Re: [Mpls] Speaking of Traffic on Hiawatha Avenue

2004-10-08 Thread David Shove
rl Pohlad. So let us look beyond the all-too-pliable mayors and councils, to the power centers determining our future. --David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed t

RE: [Mpls] Helicopters and Art

2004-11-08 Thread David Shove
dogs, who would set up the expected aleatory choral response, lasting long after the initial cat-call. I can always be talked into an even more interesting project, if anyone here can think of one. --David Shove On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Michael Atherton wrote: > > Mark Wilde wrote: > &g

[Mpls] PRT - see it for yourself 11.10 6pm

2004-11-09 Thread David Shove
As we dwell on LRT and streetcars, and before we make a ton of financial and land-use commitments, it might be well to experience for ourselves PRT, a solution I personally prefer to the above. It should not be rejected just because of a few loud voices. --David Shove Roseville

RE: [Mpls] Stop City Council from giving away control of our theatres to Clear Channel

2004-11-17 Thread David Shove
y the corporations; this will just make it that much worse. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Jon Lewis wrote: > Greetings, gang. > > This rather histrionic e-mail that Heather forwarded to the list has > been making the rounds. It is my understanding that the Clear Channe

RE: [Mpls] Stop City Council from giving away control of our theatres to Clear Channel

2004-11-17 Thread David Shove
I agree with Roxana. Now, which of our 13 council members are against the deal, which undecided, and which for? Being for this city sell-out to Clear Channel should be more than sufficient grounds to KICK THEM OUT in the November 2005 election. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 17 Nov 2004

Re: [Mpls] Defining Fascism in Minneapolis

2004-11-22 Thread David Shove
mokers to blow smoke in our faces, hair, clothes, 24/7. Or better, all of us freedom fighters should smoke 4 packs a day, lighting the next from the last, and wear the new button "Smoking makes us free" (or the German version "Rauchen Macht Frei!" which is particularly appropria

Re: [Mpls] Re: Smoking Bans, fascism, and illicit drugs

2004-11-23 Thread David Shove
KE it to be - no enforcement of any codes at all. But it isn't that way now and if the rest of us have anything to say about it, it's never going to get that way. What you call fascism is what the rest of us call public health. --David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has vio

[Mpls] PR is the answer: was Minneapolis marching in lockstep

2004-11-24 Thread David Shove
cks jumping up and down, going ballistic, frothing at the mouth, predicting the end of the world, etc. But we and they know they just want to keep the seats that they in effect have stolen from you. --David Shove Roseville On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Dan wrote: > > >You see Minneapolis is a one

Re: [Mpls] Who's really fighting voting alternatives? was PR is the answer

2004-11-24 Thread David Shove
this is will be a battle against the contented powers that be that are not responding to citizen needs. --David Shove Roseville PS The DFL Leg is on record vote, a few years back, rejecting fusion voting, which would have had some of the features of IRV. There were 7 RP votes for it, 7 DP votes for

Re: [Mpls] Who's really fighting voting alternatives? was PR is the answer

2004-11-25 Thread David Shove
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, David Weinlick wrote: > On Wednesday, November 24, 2004, at 02:13 PM, David Shove wrote: > > Agree on one thing? We could begin with IRV - Instand Runoff Voting. > > We had a vote on IRV. In the House, 90% of DFLers voted in favor it, > and 90% of Republi

Re: [Mpls] Municipal Voting (IRV)

2004-11-26 Thread David Shove
munity. Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. How long will people give more and more and get less and less? Has a government that does this have right to our respect or obedience? Should we have to barf every time we think of our government? People begin to

Re: [Mpls] On IRV and Partisan politics

2004-11-28 Thread David Shove
political office holders. I believe this is possible in any of the dozens of home-rule cities in MN. A city can achieve home-rule by a process independent of the Leg. Given the hostility of the Leg to IRV etc, home-rule seems to be a necessary first step. --David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Think a

Re: [Mpls] Property taxes for homestead property must INCREASE

2004-12-05 Thread David Shove
far from their destructions. Leaving us exploited colonized natives to live with the lousy result. Give me a used car salesman any day. --David Shove Roseville I have seen them active in Roseville on the Twin Lakes "development" - you don't want them anywhere near YOUR city coun

RE: [Mpls] the devil in the details

2004-12-08 Thread David Shove
pound of cure (fighting each and every mismanaged deal). --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, David Brauer wrote: > Jason writes: > > > Monday I called my park commissioner, Carol Kummer, to register my support > of Cris > > Gears for park > > superintendent. Car

Re: [mpls] MPRB 6 to 3 another 3 years of Jon Gurban

2004-12-09 Thread David Shove
SIX??? I thought the split was 5/4. Who was the sixth? And, when are those 6 up for re-election? -David Shove Roseville On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Chris Johnson wrote: > Elizabeth Wielinski wrote: > > Six of the nine commissioners of the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation > > B

Re: [Mpls] Plan to hire more MPD officers call the mayor

2004-12-10 Thread David Shove
Eventually single payer health care; why not now? --David Shove Roseville On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Elizabeth Wielinski wrote: >Though I am one for agreeing with the 2% increase in actual wages I > know that many city employees have the same health insurance as the > MPRB (union ties).

Re: [Mpls] RE: City Manager

2004-12-10 Thread David Shove
lose their city to (mis)developers. Eternal vigilance is still required. There is no form of government that will guarantee justice or allow us to go to sleep. --David Shove Roseville On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Ray Marshall wrote: > > The adoption of a City Manager plan for Minneapolis, the like

[Mpls] Cam Gordon ward 2 / PPF

2004-12-13 Thread David Shove
he Mpls DFL, as a charter PPFer, to announce it is endorsing Cam Gordon for ward 2. And that it encourages member DFLers to join his campaign, striding forward in the blazing greater glory of the Progressive Cause! I await the Mpls DFL announcement! Let it be soon, so all may celebrate!

RE: [Mpls] Proportional Representation

2004-12-16 Thread David Shove
istrict model doesn't GUARANTEE it > would happen and, as such, certain geographic areas could be marginalized in > the process. > > In order to ensure balanced geographical representation in a PR system, such > as the STV (single transferable vote) approach David Shove outlines (wh

Re: Fwd: Re: [Mpls] Green Party vs DFL, or fusion, and Proportional Rep.

2004-12-16 Thread David Shove
re YOU can vote for any candidate of any party at any place in your priority ranking. It gives the incumbents the LEAST security of any system I know - that's one reason I like it - and the citizens the maximum power. I don't like hacks any better than you do. --David Shove Rosevi

[Mpls] TWIN LAKES APPROVAL AT DECEMBER 20 COUNCIL MEETING (fwd)

2004-12-17 Thread David Shove
Or send a written statement that I or others can read at the meeting. Thank you again for your commitment and hard work on this important issue. Amy Ihlan --fwd David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before cont

Re: [Mpls] Proportional Representation

2004-12-15 Thread David Shove
quot;wasting" a vote. In a few elections we'd come to see what issues/parties REALLY move people here - and govt would (have to) be much more responsive to exactly that. What's not to love? --David Shove Roseville On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Aaron Neumann wrote: > Jeanne Massey

RE: [Mpls] Bookmobile for SE Minneapolis Cut

2004-12-16 Thread David Shove
aiding the rich to become richer, voluntarily, by means of bake sales and silent auctions, or if need be, public begging. I might even give Carl Pohlad a quarter or two if he asked for it selling pencils on the street. --David Shove On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Scott McGerik wrote: > > Bill Kah

RE: [Mpls] MnDOT to end KBEM partnership - 88.5 traffic radioending next March

2004-12-16 Thread David Shove
The announcement did not say KBEM was going off the air. --David Shove On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Michelle Martin wrote: > I'm sorry to hear about their loss, as they are a very community-minded > station focused on Northside issues. They were the only radio station to > offer spon

Re: [Mpls] I googled myself

2004-12-17 Thread David Shove
t too. When America lies quaking in the dust, we'll know who to blame. It makes me wonder how many seemingly ordinary folks you see on the street live clandestine lives in certain back-alley google booths. It's just about all I can think about. --David Shove un-self-googled in Roseville

Re: [Mpls] Natalie Johnson Lee, Biblical Marriage and theBachmann Amendment

2004-12-21 Thread David Shove
t Battle didn't just quote people without their permission - > but rather quoted individuals on this issue after talking with them. > I believe that of all those you mention, only Natalie is UP FOR ELECTION IN NOVEMBER 2005. --David Shove REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the r

Re: [Mpls] Sales Tax Increase for Police

2004-12-21 Thread David Shove
re forever. The rich would love to have ONLY sales taxes, because it would help them siphon the max cash from the poor to their exalted selves. One more reason to replace Ostrow at the next election. --David Shove On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Eva Young wrote: > I read in the Strib that Ostrow is prop

Re: [Mpls] Sales Tax Increase for Police

2004-12-22 Thread David Shove
ve to helping average citizens in the cities. Better to fight that fight, than to give in to Pawlenty's blackmail of last term. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A bunch of people have said that they don't like the additional sales > ta

Re: [Mpls] NJL and Bachmann amendment...correction

2004-12-22 Thread David Shove
let's consider possible motives for attack before believing the attack. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Loki Anderson wrote: > David Shove wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Eva Young wrote: > > > > It's also notable that Natalie Johnson Lee is the only Afr

Re: [Mpls] RE: Should the Mpls Schools be operating a radio station at all

2004-12-25 Thread David Shove
public is an important local start. --David Shove Roseville On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Ray Marshall wrote: > I can see the value of the Department of Transportation broadcasting traffic > information. But at a time when low power broadcasting is just about to > come into its own, maybe the issue sho

Re: [Mpls] Smoking Ban fallout

2004-12-29 Thread David Shove
Property doesn't have rights. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Scott McGerik wrote: > > > 1. The health of workers, especially in light of the previous few years > > and lack of jobs, is of paramount importance. No one should have to > > choose between t

Re: [Mpls] Mpls Year in Review, Unsung Heros

2004-12-30 Thread David Shove
d playing field. And here the UN-subsidized market works as the free enterprise folks say. A few smoking coffeehouses, many smoke-free, and another going smoke-free every few months. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Steve Nelson wrote: > > Scott McGerik > > South St P

Re: [Mpls] Resist Minneapolis

2004-12-31 Thread David Shove
nothing at all, that's my motto. --David Shove Roseville On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, gemgram wrote: > Resist Minneapolis! > > Let me start by saying I think tobacco smoking is a terrible, nasty, awful > addiction. But it is an addiction that is condoned and legal in > Minneapolis.

Re: [Mpls] RE: Should the Mpls Schools be operating a radio station at all

2005-01-02 Thread David Shove
. --David Shove Roseville On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Ray Marshall wrote: > This may be true. But the question remains: what other programs will > be subject to a $400,000 cut to enable the continuation of the radio > curriculum? Is the demand for radio station employees that great that > school

Re: [Mpls] To PRT or not PRT

2005-01-05 Thread David Shove
f the Taxi2000 style) - the flood gates would open, and their monopoly power and profits would vanish. So expect these big interests to be their usual unethical underhanded nasty selves. Follow the money. --David Shove Roseville On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Barbara Lickness wrote: > Robin is righ

Re: [Mpls] Comparing apples to bolts

2005-01-05 Thread David Shove
PRT. So which transportation choice will the building trades (and their attached liberals) love, and which will they with an all-consuming passion hate? --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Sheldon Mains wrote: > Barbara--this site is about the Seattle Greenline Monorail. It is not a

Re: [Mpls] RE: PRT and Transportation

2005-01-05 Thread David Shove
e in the spirit of open discussion), it neatly solves at one and the same time the problems of transportation and of overpopulation. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Allen Graetz's comparison of a PRT vehicle to luggage at the Denver > Inte

Re: [Mpls] Transit Modes

2005-01-07 Thread David Shove
PRT is electric. You can ride (across the Taxi2000 shop) in the demo vehicle, look at the motor, listen to the quiet. It's almost like sailing. --David Shove On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Resist America wrote: > In regard to our discussion of PRT, I have to say that > I like the bus syste

Re: [Mpls] Blowers Unite!

2005-01-07 Thread David Shove
ivate property. The neighbors I have left put up a stink about this, but it's none of their business. -David Shove Roseville On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Victoria Heller wrote: > > Whether it's leaves, smoke, hot air, or anything else -- do not give up your > RIGHT TO BLOW, at l

Re: [Mpls] Park Police /duplication of services

2005-01-12 Thread David Shove
ity (eg a certain lot of state fair pronto-pups), or sink into sloth - but till then, think of the cost savings! The saving wear and tear on our fragile brains! O, bliss! O blessed somnolence! Zz --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aaron Klemz asked:

Re: [Mpls] Neiman Money Pit

2005-01-23 Thread David Shove
do it, because you can't fight the constrution companies. Or, otherwise put, when are citizens going to get the contruction companies and their owning egos off our backs? When are we going to agree on a vision for our cities, and then stand up and fight for it? David Shove Roseville REMINDERS:

[Mpls] TND - Traditional Neighgorhood Development 1.27 7pm

2005-01-25 Thread David Shove
include a variety of housing and businesses. Learn more about how TND is being used in St. Paul right now, and might be utilized further. Equally valuable for Mpls. Presented by the Green Party of StPaul/4CD --David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e

RE: [Mpls] Re: Idling Trucks

2005-02-04 Thread David Shove
ious diesel fumes and noise are replaced by the heat and steam of some of > our best idling citizens." Idl-atry? --David Shove Roseville 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 m

Re: [Mpls] City sales tax

2005-02-11 Thread David Shove
are overjoyed to see sales taxes go up. It just encourages them to cut taxes on the rich more, and let the gullible citizens make up the loss by sales taxes. Tax the gd rich, and leave the poor alone. Yield to the rich in nothing. --David Shove On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, David Brauer wrote: >

RE: [Mpls] City sales tax

2005-02-14 Thread David Shove
e and corporate taxes. We'd do better than be robbed and disabled by the rich, as we are today. --David Shove Roseville ordinary people - who are their natural foes - would be hindered by poorly funded education atc, and thus less able to challenge the rich as they take the next step toward

[Mpls] American Legion blackmails Kennedy High School to deprive students of first amendment right to free speech (fwd)

2005-02-23 Thread David Shove
otest and teach-in today at 2:30pm, in the Kennedy High lunch room (9701 Nicollet Ave., Bloomington). 3. Forward this solidarity appeal on to your friends, family, and any email lists you are on. --fwd David Shove Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democra

RE: [Mpls] RE: Wireless Minneapolis - one more thing, security

2005-02-24 Thread David Shove
Something this basic should be provided by the city. Corporations are a creature of government; we are the government; why do we let them act like warlords? --David Shove On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Jeanne Massey wrote: > > > Jennifer L. Rubenzer > > Is a "wireless city" a

[Mpls] Ward 2 and Mayoral Candidates forum last night (fwd)

2005-02-25 Thread David Shove
I found the summary ineffective. Perhaps it will improve in 4 years - effective from day 1461. It made me feel as if it were trying to be something it isn't, so I wonder if I could trust it. And overall, ineffective, unless Shakespeare returns to rewrite it. --David Shove sauce for goose/g

Re: [Mpls] RE: Robotcalls

2005-03-01 Thread David Shove
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jane Strauss wrote: > Wow! To what do I owe the good fortune that they all missed me??? :-) Robot's Rules of Order. --David Shove Roboseville > > Jane Strauss, Longfellow, > > Who has a small special needs kid at home and probably won't be

Re: [Mpls] Caucuses

2005-03-02 Thread David Shove
freezes out all minorities and diversity at the very lowest level. As an advocate for PR and IRV, I would hate to see the DFL drop the best procedure they have, for one of the worst. -David Shove Roseville On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mike Nelson wrote: > > > &g

Re: [Mpls] Statewide Smoking Ban

2005-03-03 Thread David Shove
I side with the ban. Bring it on. Defend it. Beat Big Tobacco. Beat know-nothing redneckism. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Dan wrote: > > The statewide smoking ban ran into problems today in the House Commerce > > Committee. The bill is being declared dead by some

Re: [Mpls] Personal Rapid Transit

2005-03-04 Thread David Shove
he price of gasoline doubles and triples in the next years. But they don't care - they want their money (from us) NOW, and to hell with what is left, after they take their cash and scram to some secluded isle safe from all developers (like themselves). --David Shove On Thu, 3 Mar 2005,

[Mpls] Labor/GreenParty v WalMart 3.09 7pm (Mpls event)

2005-03-07 Thread David Shove
natives to the Wal-Mart model. Wal-Mart Month is an excellent opportunity to continue the conversation about the kind of business practices we as citizens want to see in St. Paul. CONTACT Andy Hamerlinck, Co-Chair, Green Party of St. Paul p: 651-340-1079 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i: http://www.gpsp.org --

Re: [Mpls] Re: Bonham and the violins

2005-03-12 Thread David Shove
Hasn't anyone here heard of training in non-violins? --David Shove Roseville On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Tim Bonham wrote: > > >it was the first time in about 40 years that an incumbent City Council > >Member had been defeated in a primary. > >. . . > >The Elite Few don

[Mpls] Re: MPD: New smoking ban approach

2005-03-12 Thread David Shove
liability were added to it. Insurance gurus?) --David Shove Roseville On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Steve Nelson wrote: > > Since the objections to a smoking ban seem to be a fear of loss of > profits over concern for employees health, I propose the following law > be enacted to preserve th

RE: [Mpls] Re: MPD: New smoking ban approach

2005-03-13 Thread David Shove
t mind that their "freedom" is bought at the parallel denial of freedom to non-smokers. The smoking "culture" - with luck, in another generation, smoky bar scenes will be behind glass in museums, with fake smoke and artificial dummies. --David Shove Roseville On Sun, 13 Mar

Re: [Mpls] overoccupancy rule

2005-03-14 Thread David Shove
I received mail today addressed to OVEROCCUPANT. I suppose now I can expect an overoccupanty raid. --David Shove preoccupied in Roseville On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Michael Jensvold wrote: > If we have to have occupancy rules they should be > based on persons per square foot, or maybe res

Re: [Mpls] HF 1174 PRT - Is it Pie in the Sky

2005-03-16 Thread David Shove
your reply. David Shove Roseville On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Tim Bonham wrote: > > >I have yet to see three questions answered. > > > >1) Who will be cleaning these vehicles between trips? Do they really think > >that all passengers will leave them as clean as they found t

Re: [Mpls] Nicollet Island stadium

2005-03-22 Thread David Shove
lenty runs the floating crap game! A *permanent* Aquatennial! Wash your cares away / as athletes play! What's not to love? --David Shove Water on the brain in Roseville Dibs on the underriver parking concession On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Dan McGuire wrote: > I think the stadium should be built

Re: [Mpls] Nicollet Island Stadium

2005-03-23 Thread David Shove
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dean Here: So what? What's your point? The school's there, they need > facilities. Dave here: I'm here, I need power, fame, the love of beautiful women... David Shove looking for more in Roseville REMINDERS: 1. Be ci

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