Re: [Mpls] City Workers' Union Endorses Rybak

2001-09-21 Thread M A
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- Well,one would hope that this company union has better luck than the "Air Traffic Controllers who endorsed Reagon. It took then 15 years and Bill Clifton to get back to work ! Perhaps,the candidate will contra

[Mpls] Business and the Greens

2001-09-21 Thread David Strand
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- As a liscensed stock broker and a Green I take great exception to the idea that Greens, Green ideals and politicians are a threat to the local business climate. I would posit that the inverse is true! First o

Re: [Mpls] Business and the Greens

2001-09-21 Thread M A
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- The Greens are at best politically immature. Their base is "petty-bourgeois in nature and reactionary. Nader union busting 2000 campaign was endorsed by everyone from "Daddy" Bush to the "candidate". He was no

[Mpls] Student Vote

2001-09-21 Thread Tim Bonham
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- >When I ran for city council in Madison, Wisconsin in 1967, students >gained the right to vote in local elections in part because I gave voice >to an elementary question of civil rights. Before that local mome

Re: [Mpls] Cyber Terrorism in the 2001 Election

2001-09-21 Thread Sheldon Mains
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- The Mayor's campaign site is also hosted by campaignoffice.com/Avenet (as is mine). sheldon mains candidate for library board http://www.mainsforlibrary.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Remember: our rules allow pointe

Re: [Mpls] Camp Coldwater a question...

2001-09-21 Thread Steve Brandt
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- Brandon Campos asks: Can someone answer this question for me. Does the halting of the project (or the re-rerouting of the re-route) mean that the sacred trees that were cut down on the parkway were cut down for

[Mpls] "political framework has changed..."

2001-09-21 Thread Rosalind Nelson
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- >From the Daily, "Hard Times wins motion in battle with city." http://www.mndaily.com/story.php?date=20010921&storyID=3796 Rosalind Nelson

[Mpls] Forum

2001-09-21 Thread ZippinZack
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- I attended the forum on 9-20 for the candidates for mayor. I would like to say that I'm glad that they are both DFL. I do however think that our mayor should represent all people. The focus of the forum was l

Re: [Mpls] Forum

2001-09-21 Thread craig miller
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- >Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. >-- > >I attended the forum on 9-20 for the candidates for mayor. I would like to >say that I'm glad that they are both DFL

Re: [Mpls] Camp Coldwater a question...

2001-09-21 Thread W. Brandon Lacy Campos
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- Ahhh, so as I stated. Ideological grounds eh? Now, if the Bascilica of St. Mary's had been standing on that sight, and MNDot wanted to tear it down for a highway re-route, I doubt the debate would be classified

Re: [Mpls] Camp Coldwater a question...

2001-09-21 Thread Lee Schneider
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- No, Its not the reroute thats the problem (and I am one who supported it over rebuilding Minnehaha Ave. to handle the traffic.) The problem it the Hwy. 55/62 interchange being built by the GSA building. Unli

Re: [Mpls] Camp Coldwater

2001-09-21 Thread ken bradley
  Pam Blixt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. --I won't defend MNDot on this project because I totally agree with DavidBrauer's assessment on this matter but Ken Bradley made a number ofmistatements which need clarifica

Re: [Mpls] A question about lawsigns

2001-09-21 Thread W. Brandon Lacy Campos
Thanks Karen. As you can imagine, the time just before the primary didnt' leave much time for reading of email. But, I've had the question sufficiently answered.   -Brandon   -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W. Brandon Lacy CamposCommunity LiaisonMinnesota Men of Color612-871-1788 x 13   "No od

[Mpls] Local Tolerance

2001-09-21 Thread Eric Mitchell
Lot of good this 'talk' about tolerance toward our fellow American citizens of Arab or Middle Eastern background does in real world. Sadly, I'm not surprised. Eric Mitchell Former Mill District-Ward 5 http://www.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=84975396 Associated PressSep 21 200

Re: [Mpls] Camp Coldwater a question...

2001-09-21 Thread ken bradley
 Wrote Lee Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No,Its not the reroute thats the problem (and I am onewho supported it over rebuilding Minnehaha Ave. tohandle the traffic.) The problem it the Hwy. 55/62interchange being built by the GSA building. UnlikeKen and a few others in anti 55 faction.Le

[Mpls] Trashy Subjects

2001-09-21 Thread Eva Young
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- Susan Young at Public Works responded privately to my email here regarding posting Recycling Schedules on the web. I forward her answer (with her permission) to the list. The take home message is comments on

RE: [Mpls] Trashy Subjects

2001-09-21 Thread Russell W Peterson
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- Has the City of Minneapolis considering going in with other cities on its website development? I know that campaignoffice.com has been developing govoffice.com and nonprofitoffice.com. It seems to me that cit

[Mpls] UAW Endorses Sayles Belton

2001-09-21 Thread Randy Schubring
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE United Auto Workers Endorses Candidacy of Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton Minneapolis, MN (Sept. 21, 2001) – The Minnesota State United Auto Workers (UAW) Community Action Program (CAP) toda

Re: [Mpls] Show of Unity Calling for Tolerance

2001-09-21 Thread WPChadwick
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- In a message dated 09/20/2001 10:59:17 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << We must not use this as a reason to lash out at one another. Let us use it as a chance to honor our diversity

Re: [Mpls] Show of Unity Calling for Tolerance

2001-09-21 Thread Joe Barisonzi
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- I am sure this post was well grounded in the knowledge that the passengers on the forementioned flight were both Minnesotans and Liberals. Joseph Barisonzi Minneapolis - Original Message - From: <[E

Re: [Mpls] Re-opening Nicollet

2001-09-21 Thread WPChadwick
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- In a message dated 09/17/2001 8:10:38 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Steve Brandt had a nice piece this a.m. about the city's $17 million plan to reopen Nicollet Ave. at the K-Mart/La

[Mpls] important debate tonight on Almanac

2001-09-21 Thread Kelmart
Please post to the list: The MCWD's administrator Eric Evenson and MnDOT's Dick Stehr will discuss MnDOT's decision to abandon its interchange project at 62/55, claming it cannot build the road segment under the legislation passed last May to protect Camp Coldwater Springs. The debate will begin

[Mpls] City Workers' Union Endorses Rybak

2001-09-21 Thread laura sether
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- Press Release: City Workers’ Union Endorses R.T. Rybak for Mayor Minneapolis Professional Employees Association Chooses Rybak Over Incumbent Business Consultant and Mayoral Candidate R.T. Rybak was endorsed f

Re: [Mpls] Camp Coldwater and MnDOT

2001-09-21 Thread BudTBum
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion. -- Tim Bonham asked; Can someone please explain how this could have been built on the current alignment? It seems to me that there is not enough room where the road goes between the Vet's Hospital and the Old S