On Sunday, October 2, 2005, at 07:48 PM, Terrell Brown wrote:
Under the "leadership" of Mayor Rybak, panhandling has become the city's leading growth industry. Now you can find downtown panhandlers at least as early as 6 in the morning, something that you would never see before Rybak assumed command at City Hall.
I gave my first cash to a Minneapolis panhandler downtown shortly after moving here from Washington, D.C. in 1973.
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