Re: [Mpls] Trench for Lake Street Greenway Swap

2002-08-22 Thread Eric Bartz
I use the Greenway every day and I have to point out that its appearance is greatly improved over even a year ago. There is still a very small amount of broken glass, but not nearly as bad as kavidor would have us believe. To Linda, I'd suggest that she rides four short blocks to Nicollet when s

[Mpls] Instant Runoff Voting

2002-08-22 Thread Leighton, Thomas J
I love this analysis! But I disagree with its conclusion. Tom Holtzleiter has clearly shown a limitation of the IRV system. To win, you have to crack the top two in the initial balloting. In other words, the risk of using IRV is that the best candidate may not crack the top two. Tom says t

[Mpls] Bouncing ci.minneapolis.mn.us addresses

2002-08-22 Thread List Manager
Several people have helpfully written me about this. They note that the Park Board switched to a new server over the weekend and so their old ci.minneapolis... addresses no longer work. However, a few of the bounces were not park board employees, so this is just a heads-up. And for park board fo

[Mpls] Re: Red Light Running

2002-08-22 Thread Scott Dier
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 22:43, j c harmon wrote: > I think most would agree Minnesota drivers are the pits. Red lights = > accellerate at all costs; green lights, you break out a lunch. One thing I do have to say about Minneapolis drivers is that they aren't nearly as bad as some in the 'burbs. I

[Mpls] Loring Park & MPRB

2002-08-22 Thread Richard K. Anderson
Feel I need to make a point of clarification. The MPRB is not proposing to put office space in the renovated shelter building. Rather this is renovation of a "typical" park shelter - with one very important exception. The MPRB wants to spend $1.2 Million on a building that very few people in the n

[Mpls] Comments on Minneapolis Water Works

2002-08-22 Thread Jeffrey Strand
Comments on Minneapolis Water Works Based on my personal experience as a citizen volunteer having served on the Minneapolis Water Works Advisory Committee (1999) and CLIC, I can only attest to the professionalism of MWW Director Adam Kramer and staff of Minneapolis' water utility with whom I have