According to today's Strib, Mary Jo Copeland was turned down
for a zoning change to build an orphanage in Brooklyn
Center. I think she'll be back at city hall now, to get
space out of Minneapolis. She won the battle to get Sharing
and Caring hands downtown, but it sits under the garbage
burner
There have been at least two e-mails to the list today in
which infrastructure is cited as a city requirement, but the
infrastructure mentioned is limited to streets,
sewers--bricks and mortar infrastructure. There is the
social infrastructure to consider as well because that makes
the city
The driver, who was probably scared s***less, was trying to do his/her best to
keep anyone from being harmed. Driver had no training in dealing with this kind
of thing. He/she had been trained to push the panic button which would identify
a situation--without any details--and get transit police
When the mayor, Sharon, set out to choose a chief of police, there was a
medium-sized hoo-hah about it. People of color and anti-racism, anti-police
brutality folks met with Sharon at Sabathani one night. I remember Sharon
saying, "Let me choose the chief of police." The audience did. Was he
Even though Tony Bouza could talk the hind leg off a dog, often to no particular
purpose that I could see, he did make one succinct remark during the nine years
in office which explained the police perspective quite well, roughly, 'we're
here to protect the haves against the have nots.' That's
I drove for the MTC, now renamed bus company, from 79 through mid-85. During that
time there were numerous assaults on drivers by passengers who were whacked out on
alcohol, drugs, or rage. On the 5 line alone (Chicago Av.)one
driver was knifed, one thrown off his own bus at gunpoint, one
Unless a rider is a "regular", the bus driver has no idea
who is a special case and who is not. He/she cannot take
the time to ferret out which group is which. In rush hour,
on Sunday and Holiday schedule, the driver's job is to pick
up whoever stands in the stop, regardless of mobility. On
Us "caraholics" sometimes have other reasons, particularly female caroholics. For
example, in the good weather, I'm out in my car late at night. The busses are
running at greater intervals at that hour and waiting for a bus in many places in
this city--or any city or small town or even totally
There's a misstatement in here. In the case of Mr. Saunders, the police who
answered the call did not know the history of Mr. Saunders. The connection was
made later. The fault here lies, I think, with the hospital who let Mr.
Saunders out before he was ready to cope with whatever he had on
Carol Becker wrote:
To quote Woodstock (from Peanuts) "Every time someone comes up with a good
idea, someone else brings up the budget."
The Niland affordable housing proposal would have cost as much as the City
currently spends for the Fire Department, an amount of money it simply
for keeping the falls in place and creating the whole lock and dam
development at federal expense. Tradition! Doncha just loveit?
WizardMarks, Central
Jordan S. Kushner wrote:
The Star Tribune article that I read about council member Cherryhomes'
reelction announcement mentioned her sheparding through
A group of neighborhood folks have already begun working on that issue. They
are forming the Friends of Hosmer to keep the tech center open, first, and to
increase its hours to those of the library. Yes, a group of knowledgible
volunteers would help immeasurably, RT. If you have access--and I
To me, the logical thing to punish taggers is to make them remove all the
graffiti they put up and twice that much of someone else's graffiti. So,
Reachout on Lake St., for example, which had its 120 foot wall retagged after it
was too late in the season to repaint, could have its tagger
I'd like to reply to some of Grow's accusations in David's succinct relaying of
the facts:
David Brauer wrote:
I thought Doug Grow had a very interesting and provocative Minneapolis
column on Wednesday, and was surprised to see no discussion...perhaps
Thanksgiving planning got in the way.
I went to the police to get the information since I have a friend there I can
trust. I asked, 'how does the officer see the situation?' and got the answer I
wrote. In the case of Mr. Saunders, the officeres did not have the information
that Mr. Saunders' family had tried to get HCMC to keep him
I'd like to clarify my statement since I was deemed "complacent" about police
behavior. From listening to an intelligent, articulate officer who was not at
the scene when Mr. Saunders was shot, I can say that the squad car officers are
trained to see something different than you who were also
More to the point than Mr. Born's qualifications, how are the residents of
Minneapolis going to approach telling both city council and mayor, again for the
umptenth time, that no public money goes into stadia for ball teams?
Wizard Marks, Central
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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It is my understanding, from watching the infamous Healy block come back
together that the requirements for historic districts happen when and if you
have to change the outside of the house. For example, if you have to
reconstruct your porch then it has to be reconstructed back to the original
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There is more to do than just build the building--though the building is way
important. It takes something like $100,000 a year more to run Hosmer than the
library has a budget to afford. As a new Sumner and Franklin library come into
being, it will take that much more for them too. The
Throughout the country, libraries have not been really good at lobbying for
their needs. Libraries are often a legislative and congressional afterthought.
Unfortunately, in "the age of information" that's a national disaster lurking in
the corner. Wizard
Carol Becker wrote:
Where would the
I was at Hosmer Library today, a voting station for part of
Central neighborhood. The turnout was impressive. Many more
young black voters, many middle-aged black voters and a healthy
sprinkling of caucasians as well. It was extremely heartening.
Of course, we're in the center of Neva Walker
You might also note that the percentage of democrats and republicans in
Minneapolis probably mirrors the endorsement percentages. I know the
republicans in my ward could hold a meeting in a phone booth--if there were
phone booths anymore.
Wizard Marks, Central
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think Mr. Griffith or a lot of others, have a clear picture of how
tight money is in the homes of poor families. In order for kids to take
advantage of private schools, they need more than tuition. Every program,
every outing, every event costs money, both for the kids to get in and for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It has long been my understanding (though I am no expert yet) that
vouchers are supposed to be all or part of the amount a public school
would get per student. If this is the case, then how would a voucher
program "divert funds" unjustly?
Let me explain: say my
timothy connolly writes:
Tim,
We ARE displacing the people who will not have anywhere to go inside
the city. I think that's the whole point.Wizard Marks, Central
there are undoubtedly smarter people out there than i
and i hope some could give me some reassurance that we
are just not
I'd like to suggest here, that there is already a group, called Youth
Build run from Summit Academy by Louis King in place to do that sort of
thing. Americorps is a good suggestion and those youth, combined with
Youth Build could do that I would think and have a good time in the
bargain
Karen Forbes also said, on this issue, that Brian Herron wants to be a county
commissioner. Maybe, but he wouldn't jump on Peter McLaughlin to get there.
McLaughlin's doing a more than respectable job as commissioner though I am somewhat
disappointed that he didn't challenge Grams for the senate
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I have not one shred of evidence to support the following notion on this issue:
Could this boundary issue be rising to accomodate a division of Phillips
neighborhood? It is already
So, if some guy on this list is a "snotty liberal" then you are, presumably, a
what? Condescending conservatiuve? Adenoidal archconservative? Just plain
twit? You could start with yourself and be accountable for your mouth--or
fingers in this case.
Wizard Marks, Central
j burns wrote:
While
Chain link fence with a locked gate? Ish. At least the one at 42nd and
Bloomington has a wrought iron fence, some trees, etc. It looks quite nice,
actually.
Wizrd Marks, Central
Dave Stack wrote:
From: Dave Porter
Maybe there should be a "Bassett Creek Watershed District" to come up
Ah, RT, you silver-tongued wonder, you. Even though I am running for the
Library Board next year, I too think we should have a serious debate about
separate boards for library and park (I cannot say the same for Board of
Estimates since I cannot figure out what they do). However, if a separate
When the feds conveyed Little Earth of United Trives housing to the Indians a few
years ago, it was with the stipulation that they could not use the land to build a
casino--this I never understood because had the Indians been able to build a
casino, it would have improved their lives a bunch.
There are more than the issues Wally Swan brings up which
make me, as a taxpayer, hesitate to approve the library
referendum both this year and as it now stands. The $140
million goes entirely to bricks and mortar, probably
standard operating procedure for bonded issues. In the
campaign to
As one who came here as an adult, the twin cities are more fraternal twins than
not. The Census Bureau wants to make life easier for it's purposes, but the twins
are "our" cities. I don't think I want the Census Bureau to change my name. To
carry that to a farther conclusion, of course, the
Maybe we should bunch everything between 495 and 695 into one entity and call
it Elf Mountain, that should confuse people read good.
Wizard Marks, Central
Scott McGerik wrote:
Barbara Nelson wrote:
I realize that the census bureau's change in how it designates the area
wouldn't change
But they're still Republicans and their platform is exclusionary for women,
particularly those who might need to have an abortion, and for those who are
poor. No sale.
Wizard Marks, Central
Eva Young wrote:
For Immediate Release 10/8/00
Contact: Terrell Brown 612-371-3014
LOG CABIN
None of what you've said gets to the heart of the issue. Staff people at the Hard
Times were busted for dealing in the cafe. Other establishments who have done
likewise, particularly those whose owners or patrons were largely African American
were closed down under like circumstances. It would
The people on my block never report lack of return calls. They get answers,
though not always from Herron personally. Sometimes they come from his
assistant or his aide. The last study of the Ward 8 office, done by Vernon
Wetternach, I think, showed that the ward gets at least 160 calls a
In May Central Neighborhood's board election caused a series
of unfortunate events, one of which was the loss of our
contract with MCDA for citizen participation. The house
Karen Forbes wanted to have on her street built by PRG was
not, therefore, open to citizen input.
Also, it was the mayor
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