Tim Salo makes some very good points.
Availability being one of them, I would like to make some points regarding
that. I've not seen a figure for Minneapolis, but I have seen figures for
North America saying that 68% of the population has Internet service,
whatever that means. That means, I
I'd guess Stillwater, and Dakotah County
Ray Marshall
Hiawatha
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Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:04:47 -0500
From: Steve Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Mpls] Minneapolis: What's in a name?
For those looking to the East Bank for guidance on anniversary
Ray Marshall wrote:
The major question is, would they want it and use it if they had Internet
service. I would contend that a very large proportion of them would not
want it, for various reasons:
Trying to decide who will want something that hasn't been created and
delivered yet is
Mike, thanks for the thoughtful response on this topic.
I agree with you that energy and specifically the rising costs of energy
will significantly shape city issues in the future.
Peak Oil and Peak Natural Gas are like sustainability with teeth. Mom
Nature is about to bite us in the butt
Thanks to Jan Del Calzo for directly addressing the Ward 13 City Council
race. Of the two candidates, I'm leaning toward Lisa McDonald as well.
Lisa is the more experienced of the two candidates, is fiscally responsible,
and also understands environmental issues as related to economic and
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 23:08:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: Timothy J. Salo
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Broadband Availability?
[...]
The end of for-fee basic Internet access is near. Google has bid on
San Francisco's citywide wireless - 300 kbps anywhere in the city for
FREE, and wholesale
I appreciate Michael Hohmann's articulate discussion of the cost/benefits of
city government, and laying out what the future might be for all of us. He
expressed several points that I've been thinking about, but haven't written
down.
He provides a good template of questions that all
Mark Hanson wrote:
I appreciate Michael Hohmann's articulate discussion of the
cost/benefits of city government, and laying out what the
future might be for all of us. He expressed several points
that I've been thinking about, but haven't written down.
He provides a good template of
Public and academic libraries across the country are moving quickly to step up
their high-tech offerings with Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) technology.
An added benefit of the Wi-Fi service is that it frees up the library's
computers for those who don't have a computer or Internet access at home.
Samantha Smart for Minneapolis Library Board
Cyber-Campaign: OUTREACH!
please forward to your contacts!
America why are your libraries full of tears?
Allen Ginsberg
The mission of the Minneapolis Library Board is to link the people of
Minneapolis and beyond with the transforming power of
When I worked for the Metropolitan Library Service Agency in 2001 I treid to
interest the public library systems in the region in starting wireless
networking pilot projects. The Hennepin County Library, with their better
technical resources, had already started planning their own wireless
One partial answer to exploding energy costs is
recyclying organics to make gas for heating and other
energy/power needs. The Green candidates have been
discussing this and exploring it's real potential.
The rising costs of energy make it a no brainer as the
cost of energy from this source on
On Tuesday, October 4, 2005, at 03:07 PM, Michael Hohmann wrote:
I found property taxes to be the top issues on people's minds as I went
door-to-door before the primary.
Other than a somewhat surprising lack of interest, I found some people
to be concerned about the vagaries of personality
Saturday is a whole dang day chocked full of fun Cam Campaign activities
that you AND your family can get plug into.
Pick one or pick them all to put a Green in the 2nd Ward Council seat
COME HELP ELECT CAM GORDON!
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Tom Taylor
612-788-4252
Sheridan
Raise less corn and more hell.
Mary
There is a police sketch of an individual suspected in the two S
Minneapolis rapes.
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/news/20051005RapeSuspect.asp
David Brauer
List manager
REMINDERS:
1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If
you think a member is in
I saw in today's Strib the following quote from R.T.:
I will do my next four budgets like I've done the last six, which is
pay off the credit card, focus on basic services and know when to say
no, Mayor R.T. Rybak said.
By my count R.T. has done only three budgets, 2003, 2004, and 2005,
On Oct 5, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Greg Abbott wrote:
I saw in today's Strib the following quote from R.T.:
I will do my next four budgets like I've done the last six, which
is pay off the credit card, focus on basic services and know when
to say no, Mayor R.T. Rybak said.
By my count R.T. has
I saw in today's Strib the following quote from R.T.:
I will do my next four budgets like I've done the last six, which is
pay off the credit card, focus on basic services and know when to say
no, Mayor R.T. Rybak said.
When has Rybak ever said no to anything? His only veto was a ridiculous
As a little side issue on the debate regarding our automobile dominated
city, something that has annoyed me for years are the downtown parking
ramps that have speakers out by the sidewalk that issue a loud warning
of car approaching whenever a car is about to leave the ramp and exit
the
I thought I'd take a quick stab at debunking the reasons given for not wanting
a computer. This isn't to suggest that everyone has to have a computer, but is
meant to show that the internet access can mean a lot of different things to
different people.
1. Those who work on computers all day
Please join 6th Ward Council Member Dean Zimmermann for office hours at
Maria's Cafe, 1113 E Franklin Ave, next Wednesday, October 10 at 8 a.m.
Coffee will be provided, and menu service will be available. We will
meet in the back room.
Beginning at 8 a.m. each second Wednesday, Council Member
Sorry, but I have to disagree on this one.
I used to park at the old Armory and the exit was totally blind. I would always
slowly edge out, but it being so near the Dome, on many evenings people were
going to games and you could not see them until you were almost on the sidewalk.
I think
Wizard Marks bets:
My bet is that four or five days before the November election, the FBI
will put an indictment on the table. Any takers?
I'd take that bet, but since the FBI never brings indictments, I'll give
Wizard a break. This one is pretty much up to the US Attorney to do.
Bill Kahn
In Ballot Box: Airport labor issues in Ward 12
Go to: http://www.mplsobserver.com/ballot_box/
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The Minneapolis Observer
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1. Be civil! Please read the NEW
-Original Message-
From: Ed Kohler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 3:40 PM
Ed, your reasons countering my list are very good reasons to have a computer
with internet access. There's probably no activity or lifestyle that
couldn't be improved in some way,
Catching up from being out of town, so I'm lumping several responses
into one.
Broadband:
1. The message Tim Salo cited without attribution was mine. He wrote:
Maybe this is an example of the differences between technologists
and policy people. Technologists use technology to easily
Article by Rashard Zanders, highlighting Park Commissioner Rochelle
Berry-Graves.
* * *
Whos guarding the citys jewels?
By: Rashard Zanders
Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Originally posted 10/5/2005
A veteran commissioner explains why the upcoming park board elections deserve
our close
Though I doubt Mayor Rybak stays up nights worrying about my posts on this
list, nonetheless I owe him a public apology.
I believe that my post regarding some advocates meeting with him regarding
panhandling issues was unprincipled and quite unfair on my part. I fell into
the
scorched earth
If that link breaks, try this one : http://tinyurl.com/cnevu
Jason Stone
Diamond Lake
--- Jason C Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Article by Rashard Zanders, highlighting Park Commissioner Rochelle
Berry-Graves.
* * *
Whos guarding the citys jewels?
By: Rashard Zanders
Minnesota
Sorry for the date error in the previous message! Dean's breakfast is October
12.
Natalie Collins
Aide to 6th Ward Council Member Dean Zimmermann
(612)673-2206
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: Collins, Natalie M
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 3:35 PM
To: Zimmermann, Dean
Peak Oil and Peak Natural Gas are like sustainability with
teeth. Mom Nature is about to bite us in the butt pretty hard.
We've made about 60 years of serious mistakes regarding energy. All
of these mistakes are going to create an environmental crisis. Too
late to say I wish we'd listened
Mayoral Hopefuls Stick to Issues in First Post-Primary Debate
In their first debate since the primary election, Mayor R.T. Rybak
and challenger Peter McLaughlin covered familiar ground, but mostly
avoided the contentiousness that marked many of their earlier public
encounters.
Go to:
according to my handy dandy computer dictionary, obfuscate is a verb which
means make unclear or unintelligible from the Latin obfuscare, which
means, darken -- so put that in your pipe and desicate it
diane wiley in tangletown with laptop at the ready
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