In a message dated 4/22/02 8:54:28 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< As I passed the houses this morning at 8:15am, the first one was already half down and the backhoe was hard at work. By now the house is probably history. So sad. Ann Berget Kingfield in the 8th _______________________________________ >> Keith says; Not to worry. A NonProfiteer is already building a replacement unit, deep in the hood, for $180,000 to $220,000 of taxpayer money. It will be in a multi unit building so the money will be well spent adding density against sprawl. To be real honest here, I have watched the boarding and demolition of the Northside, Southcentral corridor, and Phillips, up-close and personal, for the last twenty-five years. I have witnessed the waste; marveled at the blind eye or cold stare from City Hall types such as Joe Biernat, Jackie Cherryhomes and SSB. And I shouted in the wilderness about crime and degradation allowed and fostered in some neighborhoods, while other neighborhoods and Suburbia blithely ignored the carnage and unfairness with NIMBY'n blinders on. These two houses, they are unimportant. Repeat, unimportant. They have as much importance as the orphaned sparrow you found as a kid and tried to keep alive in a shoe box and fed milk from an eyedropper. And buried in the yard with all pomp and circumstance two days later. Sorry Ann, dry your tears; they are five, ten, fifteen and twenty years too late. The carnage is subsided. The ethnic/economic cleansing campaign, though successful, has ended. The overt, board them up and knock them down juggernaut, composed and controlled from City Hall, is no longer. We must research the truth of this chapter in Mpls. history and identify the authors of this brutal policy who controlled City Hall. We must uncover their tracks and their hidden agendas. And we must highlight the willing executioners, in the civil ranks below these Civic leaders, who bent or broke the rules. Ordinance and statute were violated, ignored, and trampled along with deeper more profound laws of right and wrong as the walls came tumbling down and whole neighborhoods were demolished. If that juggernaut is subsided we must be vigilant against the next scandalous and corrupt juggernaut. The wasting of our precious and limited public treasure and future tax base on exorbitantly costly housing construction by stealth-capitalist NonProfiteers. So caveat emptor Mpls. residents and property tax payers. Caveat Emptor of the so-called Nonprofit Sector, and hang on to your checkbook. _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
