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I will be there and would be happy to report back to the listserv. This actually brings me back to a thought I meant to post a while back and never got around to, back when Tim prompted a discussion about what we all think the SPIF is and what it should be. During the city council elections, I was sorely disappointed in the quality of our local newspaper's reporting. I think that, ethically, a newspaper that endorses in local races should really have their beat reporters covering these races in much more depth than they did. With as many candidate forums sponsored by district councils and neighborhood organizations, I was surprised at how few of them were reported on *at all* in the Pioneer Press. So one thing I would love this list to do, for future elections, is to try to fill the void that our local newspapers leave us with. If, during election seasons, we had a small corps of folks acting as "citizen reporters" who commit to attending a candidate forum here and there (preferably one for a race where the reporter can be appropriately impartial) and then have these stories posted to the forum, by the time elections come we can have a fairly extensive archive of reporting on a given local race. A lot of these forums occur well before the general electorate is even remotely thinking about who they're going to vote for, which is probably at least one part of why the PP doesn't bother to report on them. In the final weeks of an election interested people could read past articles and, hopefully, be able to see a broad range of perspectives on various candidates, the issues they have spoken to during the campaign, and the evolution of their position on issues. My two cents. Javier Morillo West Side --- List Manager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > St. Paul E-Democracy Links > http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/links.html > _____________________________________________ > > Mayor Randy Kelly is going to be involved in an open > forum on Latino > issues in St. Paul - tonight at the Dayton's Bluff > Recreation Center, > 800 Conway St - from 6-8 pm. > > Can anyone from the St. Paul Issues Forum attend > this meeting and > report back to the group tomorrow? > > ------------------------------------------------- > Open forum set for Latinos in St. Paul > http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4242824.html > > "The forum runs from 6-8 p.m. at Dayton's Bluff > Recreation Center, > 800 Conway St." > > "Figures from the 2000 Census show that St. Paul's > Latino community > is more than 22,700 people, or almost 8 percent of > the city's overall > population." > ------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Tim Erickson > List Manager > St. Paul Issues Forum > http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/ > Hamline Midway Resident > 651-643-0722 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > St. Paul Links - > http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/links.html > > "The St. Paul Issues Forum is a interactive e-mail > discussion on > important issues about St. Paul public policy. > Participation is free > and open to anyone. We currently have about 350 > concerned citizens > and community leaders subscribed to our discussion." > _____________________________________________ > NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your > password - visit: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul > > Archive Address: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ > _____________________________________________ > For state and national discussions see: > http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ _____________________________________________ For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract
