[Mpls] Holiday Train visits today and aids food shelves!

2005-12-12 Thread Dyna
Tonight at 9:10 pm Minneapolis citizens will be given rare access to historic Shoreham Yards to see a troupe of musicians aboard Canadian Pacific Railroad's Holiday Train put on a heck of a show and raise food and funds for food shelves. For further information surf to www.cpr.ca, pick your fa

[Mpls] Indifference, what does it take re- homelessness

2005-12-12 Thread m1r3201
I posted on this list a few days ago about one of my co-organizers on Decrim and his plight which is being ignored by some of the powers-that-be (no one on the City Council). Over these recent years, I have held my tongue about the apathy and lack of true work to end homelessness on the part of

[Mpls] racism and homelessness

2005-12-12 Thread m1r3201
How can shelter providers not acknowledge the incredible racism evidenced every day in our homeless shelters? The disproportionate number of people out on the streets and in shelters who are people of color is just an outrage. It is a replication of what happens day in and day out regading raci

[Mpls] Campaign Finance/Ms. Dahls Comments

2005-12-12 Thread monicab
Hard Work vs Hard Money I campaigned for Kevin McDonald in the 12th Ward. It was my first experience in participating in the campaign process. Let me clear up a misconception or two..Mr. McDonald's campaign was as grass roots as they can be. Since our campaign funds came from individuals a

[Mpls] Archives?

2005-12-12 Thread Russell Raczkowski
Will we still be able to look back to the way things were, say, in 2002? Or will the switch over mean that all the old posts will vanish? Russell Raczkowski Bancroft REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, cont

[Mpls] Last minute announcement

2005-12-12 Thread Farheen Hakeem
The Future of Minnesota Politics Farheen Hakeem is to appear live tonight on 'Monday Night Live" Minneapolis Television Network Channel 16, Monday December 12, 05 from 8-9 pm. It's a live call in show, and Craig Cox will handle phone callers. The phone number during the live show is

[Mpls] campaign finance

2005-12-12 Thread Sonja Dahl
While Tony is correct that both union PACs and the Klodts contributed to City Council and Park Board campaigns, the similarities stop there. Before awarding PAC contributions to candidates, unions typically require completion of an exhaustive questionnaire and an in-person interview -- all with the

Re: [Mpls] Archives?

2005-12-12 Thread Tim Erickson
Will we still be able to look back to the way things were, say, in 2002? Or will the switch over mean that all the old posts will vanish? The old posts will remain available in the old archive. They will not be transferred into the new archive, but they will be available in the old location.

[Mpls] Rybak nominates Bosacker for City Coordinator

2005-12-12 Thread List Manager
NEWS RELEASE Contact: Jeremy Hanson December 12, 2005 Mayor Rybak Nominates Steven Bosacker As Minneapolis City Coordinator Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak today announced that he is nominating Steven Bosacker to be the next Minneapolis City Coordinator. Bosacker is widely considered to be an expe

[Mpls] IMPORTANT - MUST READ! - software switch - members must re-join

2005-12-12 Thread List Manager
- Don't Miss A Day of the Minneapolis Issues Forum Set up your new account today! http://forums.e-democracy.org/minneapolis - ATTENTION EVERYONE! We close the existing Minneapolis Issue

RE: [Mpls] Property Tax: Progressive or Regressive?

2005-12-12 Thread Anderson & Turpin
Dan McGrath wrote: Since I was a kid, I'd dreamed of one day owning my own house in the neighborhood I grew up in, right here in Longfellow. Three years and two months ago, after scraping, and saving, living in a tiny, crappy effeciency apartment for 8 years, and scraping some more, my dream becam

RE: [Mpls] IMPORTANT - MUST READ! - software switch - members mustre-join

2005-12-12 Thread Steven Clift
As of 10 p.m. over 100 of you have made the switch. Don't miss a day: http://forums.e-democracy.org/minneapolis Don't worry too much about your digest settings until after you make the move. Once join you can easily send an e-mail to the new forum address with the command "digest on" to tur

Re: [Mpls] campaign finance

2005-12-12 Thread Mark Snyder
Apologies for the late response to this post, but I'm also a public union member (MAPE 0301) as a state employee and I disagree with Tony that limiting PAC contributions would drown out union voices or that it's somehow wrong to suggest that elected officials should recuse themselves from votes in

[Mpls] Problems With NEW Forum?

2005-12-12 Thread Tim Erickson
Its been a great response, it just over 24 hours we've already have 117 people who have registered for the new forum. (Your going to LOVE it). PLEASE - help us out, by setting up your account ASAP! http://forums.e-democracy.org/minneapolis/groups/mpls Remember, that once you set up your acc

Re: [Mpls] Property Tax: Progressive or Regressive?

2005-12-12 Thread Dan McGrath
> Mark Anderson wrote: > Dan, you can be taxed out of your house just as easily by income taxes or > sales taxes, or indirect business taxes, as by property taxes. Property tax > may be more obvious than the other taxes (especially sales tax and indirect > taxes), but the other ones come out of th

[Mpls] Re: IMPORTANT - MUST READ! - server switch and two-day shutdown

2005-12-12 Thread Tim Bonham
Apparently ready for prime time ONLY if you use Micro$oft Internet Explorer as a browser! Because the screens to change your email settings, etc. don't work with Firefox. That's not "print time" design; more like 1990's design! The list will be moving to an opensource software product called

[Mpls] Re: IMPORTANT - MUST READ! - server switch and two-day shutdown

2005-12-12 Thread Dyna
Your right, Tim- I tried signing on with Safari and maybe got registered for the new list (can't tell for sure). I can't access the screens to change settings either, and the site keeps looping me back to the registration page. One has to wonder if this is real open source software given th