[Mpls] Fishing Bait

2005-06-02 Thread Marjorie Rolland
Anyone know of a place to buy fishing bait (crawlers, leaches, minnows) within Minneapolis? Close to Minneapolis? There was a bait store on Lake Street -- it has closed. At one time there was bait shop just outside of Mpls. on 66th Street in Richfield. But now I don't know where there is

Re: [Mpls] What's missing?

2001-11-17 Thread Marjorie Rolland
Moby Dick's on Hennepin with Bob Dylan lurking in the crowd. Great Horned Owl of Nicollet Island. The market on Hennepin Avenue in downtown that was some of the best people watching. The hobos that used to live in caves and make-shift wooden houses on the river banks where the $250,000 (and

Re: [Mpls] What is missing?

2001-11-17 Thread Marjorie Rolland
The barge that ran into Nicollet Island early one spring and was hung up there for a few days. "Fredric H. Markus" wrote: The beaver family that tried to dam the back channel down below Tile and Marble The muskrats that lived in the backwater betweenBoomIsland and the high ground The

Re: [Mpls] School Funding and Taxes

2001-06-13 Thread Marjorie Rolland
TIF financing does not reduce the total dollars available for schools. The total stays the same -- the split between the amount received from local property tax dollars and the amount recieved from state aid changes. Put another way -- let's say the school district's revenues are $100. And,

Re: [Mpls] dropouts

2001-05-30 Thread Marjorie Rolland
Yes the current drop-out rate is figured into the school districts budget. We do not receive money for students who are not here. The challenge will be having the space for all of the students if the drop-out rate is significantly improved. A challenge, we would welcome! Megan Thomas -