Hi all- I'm hopping in on the HPC thing. Who has control and how does it
work??? More and more the HPC in Whittier lets one property slip and then
causes many,many problems for others that goes by the rules...who, what and
how does the HPC work??? In Whittier it's unclear.
Becky Olson
Whittier
After long thought and interactions and conversations with many folks in the
community, I have decided to not seek the DFL endorsement for School Board.
I believe that while education has become highly politicized, partisan
politics should not be played out with our students. I am committed to
Becky Olson wrote:
More and more the HPC in Whittier lets one property slip and then causes many, many
problems for others that goes by the rules...
The HPC has two preservation planners (which is far too few) shouldering the burden
for this entire city, and a commission, much like the City
Matthea and
others,
I will
be sad to lose your support. I would think that you would support me on the
basis of my ideas, and not because I chose to have a political philosophy on
education that believes education is not the place to battle out partisan
politics.
The Republican Party
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Brandon,
I support your decision not to seek DFL endorsement, and I hope that others
running for school board follow suit. Please let us have one elected office
that is not about party politics, but what is for the good of education. We
make a lot of compromises in this country for the sake
The HPC process involves designation of either an area or structure as
worthy of preservation, based on a study of the historic or significant
characteristics. The City Council adopts the designation. Following that
designation, the owner must have changes approved by the City. This can
apply
Well, I use the endorsement as a way of making sure
that a candidate has good progressive instincts, won't
put their personal religious values ahead of the
health and well being of Mpls public school kids (ie
clinics and sexual orientation counseling and
programs) and as a way of seeing what the
More information on available candidates and their positions is available
through elections than it is through endorsements. Are they progressive
enough? Quiz 'em.
Andy Driscoll
Saint Paul
--
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without
action. - Benjamin Disraeli
My sincere apologies for posting over the daily limit yesterday. I didn't
know there was a limit . Thanks for the kind but firm corrections I received
from a few folks.
As for corrections, thanks also for the feed-back on supportive housing
counts in various neighborhoods, and the many
Conor Donnelly wrote:
Wondering when Mr. Atherton is planning to run for a seat on the school board?
I am not sure that I am running for a seat on the school board, but I might be for
several reasons:
1) The schools are in crisis and nobody seems to be doing much about it.
2) Most of
Who Be Bopped and how did you do it?
Barb Lickness
Whittier
(I biked- OUCH!)
=
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the
world. Indeed,
it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead
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Do You
I sincerely hope Michael Atherton runs for the Minneapolis Board of
Education. While many of his posts to this list generate controversy, I
enjoy the fact that he takes issue and challenges others posting on
education-related topics, and speaks well during the course of debate. The
dialogue is
Are behavioral problems in school generally rooted outside of school?
Is it possible to greatly reduce these behavioral problems by making
changes inside the schools?
I was engaged in a similar type of debate about the behavior of restaurant
customers when I waited tables at Denny's and other
I have been taking the 94G bus from North Minneapolis into downtown for
over 2 years now. Of course today, B-Bop day, I woke up late, missed the
bus, and had to burn fossil fuels to get me to work! UGH!
I am actually going to start biking the 6 miles starting in June. I have
been conditioning
Just to chime in--I ride the bus on a daily basis to work downtown. I live
in the Lyndale Neighborhood, and therefore I am right on an express.
It took me two years of living up here (and lots of convincing from peers)to
get on the bus--and now that I did, I can not believe it took me so
Here's a neat website that lets you browse SE Mpls neighborhoods for the 73 business
that
either currently have or have had an air permit file with the MN Pollution Control
Agency. Some
cool maps and useful links for those of you interested in pollution issues.
http://www.secomo.org/ei/
Conor
Since I am not from Minneapolis originally, I am quite curious as to the
origins of the names of neighborhoods.
Of course, Shingle Creek is named after the creek of the same name that
runs through it, but I am MOST curious about the neigborhoods that have a
bit more esoteric names:
Namely:
I've just assumed that Wedge referred to the shape of the area formed by
Lyndale and Hennepin Avenues north of Lake Street. The Wedge Coop was
originally on Franklin Avenue near the point.
Rosalind Nelson
Bancroft neighborhood--named for Bancroft school, I believe.
Bob Velez wrote:
Since I
Biked, as I do on four of five non-icy/snowy days. By the way, credit for
this goes directly to Ken Avidor, Gary Hoover, Robin Garwood and all the
other bicyclists who made me rethink the necessity of my carbon-based trips,
especially the short ones during good weather. Also thanks to the 50th
We know Brandon isn't, but who is? The city endorsing convention is about
two weeks away!
This is the short list I've compiled:
Judy Farmer
Jonathan Palmer
Audrey Johnson
Colleen Moriarity
Joseph Erickson (heard this second-hand; think he ran in 2001)
Anyone else?
David Brauer
King Field
I'm sure a smart guy like Mr. Mann, who has a long history of chastising the MPS on the basis of ability grouping and other complaints, knows what he is doing when he draws an analogy between Denny's, a service company with one of the most notoriously racist histories in American corporate annals,
The neighborhoods as we know them today were an invention of the Planning
Department in the late 1960's/early 1970's as part of the federally funded
planning efforts of the day. The boundaries were also set at that time.
Most neighborhoods were named for parks or schools within the neighborhood
Oh was it be bop to work day.I thought I saw more ponies out today.
Good for you that make be bop a more than yearly occurance. I on the other hand can't
wait for the
snow and ice after the long hot summer. Insanity keeps some of us young.I'll be
the crusty 90
year old on a 150 year
Here's what I know:
Wedge does refer to the shape of the neighborhood: it's real name is
Lowry Hill East. (Years back, I heard of the Wedge Coop before I knew
the neighborhood was named the Wedge, too. I thought it was a brilliant
name for a coop and thought it referred to cut-up fruit!)
Interesting subject and, along these lines, I noticed a sign near the corner
of Lyndale Ave. N. and West Broadway that said Welcome to Old Highland.
Anyone want to give us a sense of when Old Highland existed and when it
changed to Hawthorne?
Gregory Luce
Project 504/Minneapolis (North Phillips)
Full points for all you bikers!
My wife said that more people would take the bus, but it doesn't go
through McDonalds drive-through. ;-)
But seriously, I might be able to take a bus to work if we could get a
rational transportation bill that would actually allow for east-west
routes between
Minneapolis Geographic Place Names
Others have written about the origin of some of our geographic place names
in Minneapolis. I have found Minnesota Geographic Names by Warren Upham,
published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press to be very useful with
regard to origins of street names,
Seward's a person's name, but I forget what he did.
I presume Phillips has a similar origin - could be part of the old
Minneapolis liquor industry family. As a major part of the Twin Cities
Jewish community, it may be that an early Phillips was a benefactor in a
neighborhood originally
Folks - it is my understanding (after some research a few years back) that
a lot of the neighborhoods are named after schools and parks. Many of the
schools which are no longer here but the neighborhood name has not changed.
So many of the Planning districts were also designed geographically
Tim Holt has a very nice website that includes some Minneapolis
placenames and streetnames:
http://www.tholt.com/mpls.html
Hennepin County History, the magazine of the Hennepin County HS, has
published articles on street name and school name origins - available at
the MPL of Hennepin History
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