[Mpls] Cub foods store on central is bad for central's development

2002-09-30 Thread Amanda Tempel
1) Thank you (Robert Yorga) for bringing this issue to the list. I've seen several people from NE post lately & I want to see people get involved on this issue. 2) I wish that the Northeaster was on-line...everyone should get a chance to read this article. It is right on point as was Robert Yo

[Mpls] Clare Housing

2002-09-30 Thread timothy connolly
Just when you thought the discussion had ended some pipsqueak sounds off! I do not doubt Victoria's search of Strib ads saying there are 394 apartments in the range of $500 to Let us talk definitions here. What is affordable? At one time I recall that affordable rent was thought to be 1

[Mpls] Clare Housing

2002-09-30 Thread timothy connolly
Just when you thought the discussion had ended some pipsqueak sounds off! I do not doubt Victoria's search of Strib ads saying there are 394 apartments in the range of $500 to Let us talk definitions here. What is affordable? At one time I recall that affordable rent was thought to be 1

Re: [Mpls] Re: City website

2002-09-30 Thread Russell Sasaoka
The website is currently going through changes and discussions on accessability and navigation. Like all things, give it some time... Begin Original Message But one thing that the City of Minneapolis website is lacking is an easily accessible city employee directory. If yo

Re: [Mpls] Re: City website

2002-09-30 Thread Russell Sasaoka
The website is currently going through changes and discussions on accessability and navigation. Like all things, give it some time... Begin Original Message But one thing that the City of Minneapolis website is lacking is an easily accessible city employee directory. If yo

Re: [Mpls] Clare Housing Affordable Housing Project and Bigotry in Saint Anthony East

2002-09-30 Thread David Strand
I find it rather shocking that such discriminatory comments would be made in Minneapolis at such a meeting. It gives you some idea of what kinds of ugly sentiments may be lurking beneath the surface. Obviously for the center be blocked based on these sentiments would be illegal under federal, st

Re: [Mpls] Minnesota Aids Project: Housing Resources in Minneapolis

2002-09-30 Thread WizardMarks
I know many of these housing providers and they are welcoming to AIDS patients (have 2 Alliance houses on my block), most, if not all, of them are not wheelchair accessible. WizardMarks, Central Victoria Heller wrote: > href="file://C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery\">

Re: [Mpls] Minnesota Aids Project: Housing Resources in Minneapolis

2002-09-30 Thread dain lyngstad
My question, after looking at a well positioned constituencies needs and successes, where is the housing for whole families who can use it? --- Victoria Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From Minnesota Aids Project: Searched for Housing > in Minneapolis > > Your search found 28 programs. > >

[Mpls] ..Oh to see ourselves as others see us.

2002-09-30 Thread Dean Lindberg
Baseball fans on the list, and perhaps even others who wonder how Minneapolis and Minnesota are perceived in the world beyond the horizon, may feel warm and fuzzy all over after reading this article about the Twins. http://espn.go.com/mlb/columns/caple_jim/1439331.html Dean Lindberg Minnehaha _

Re: [Mpls] Will you help pull our West Broadway Oxcart?

2002-09-30 Thread PennBroKeith
Keith says; Dyna, thanx for your concern for redevelopment of West Bro. Your observations are correct for conditions of the roadway there. I resubmit that the issues to be addressed are highly complicated and contentious. I think you will be surprised to learn that the County is ready willing

[Mpls] Minnesota Aids Project: Housing Resources in Minneapolis

2002-09-30 Thread Victoria Heller
From Minnesota Aids Project:  Searched for Housing in Minneapolis   Your search found 28 programs. Program Local Phone Toll Free Phone Web Address Alliance Apartments 612-630-3600 Alliance of the Streets 612-87

[Mpls] Cub foods store on central?

2002-09-30 Thread Many Crows
According to an article written for the September 26th Northeaster, more than 80 residents and business owners attended a meeting for a proposed Cub Foods store on Central Avenue. Though not in attendance was either the developer (Sherman and Associates) or a representative from Cub Foods. Apparen

[Mpls] Local Control (was Iraq/Clare House)

2002-09-30 Thread Patrick Peterson
Two things which really illustrate an interesting point: Victoria Heller wrote: >I just did a search on the Star Tribune website for 1 bedroom units between >$500 and $699. Also keep in mind that lots of vacancies are not advertised >through the Strib. This tells us absolutely *nothing* about

[Mpls] Brookfield Countdown: Our very own D-Day - as in Default

2002-09-30 Thread Victoria Heller
Craig Miller wrote: "I believe Mr. Minn and Ms. Heller have constructed a bulletproof collection plan on how we can convince Brookfield in to honoring their word." Vicky Replies: I'm not sure what Craig is referring to. I tried back in May to shame Brookfield Properties into paying its debts t

[Mpls] Brookfield Countdown

2002-09-30 Thread Craig Miller
The clock is ticking. Today is the day when we see if Brookfield will pay the $17.4 million dollars that they owe the city. This an amount that they agreed to pay. They backed it up with nothing but their word. Any one here if Brookfield kept their word? BTW who was in charge of the key compon

[Mpls] Thanks to Mike Opat / Where is Peter McLaughlin hiding?

2002-09-30 Thread Eva Young
Hi Folks: I would like to thank commissioner Mike Opat for his thoughtful answers to the questions posed on this list to him. Peter McLaughlin has yet to respond to the questions posed here. Where is Peter McLaughlin and what is he afraid of? Does he think that since he did well in the prim

Re: [Mpls] Will you help pull our West Broadway Oxcart?

2002-09-30 Thread dyna
Kieth, I'm with you on this one. >Dear Mike Opat- I read thru your posting on The List Forum this morning. I >also took the opportunity to review the Northwest Corridor Website >(address-from your post). > >As a member of the West Broadway Area Coalition in North Mpls. I have some >concer

Re: [Mpls] Re: "Shut up," he explained

2002-09-30 Thread william colbert
I think the posts by Diane Wiley and Lydia Howell answer your request for an explanation better than I could. I would add that the ability of ordinary people to affect the course of government action is the more limited, the more remote is the center of that action. For this reason, it is widely

Re: [Mpls] Stop the Access Project! -STRIDE

2002-09-30 Thread Eva Young
>Our first initiative: the I-35 Access Project > >The current I-35 Access project proposes a southbound exit and >northbound >entrance at Lake Street. The new ramps will mean demolition of dozens >of >homes and businesses. Lake Street will be widened to as many as eight >lanes >in order to acco

RE: [Mpls] Roosevelt library

2002-09-30 Thread ken bradley
The 19 and the 23 buses run past the new library. It would be about a 7 block walk to the light rail line if you decide not to transfer from a bus. I am assuming that bus traffic will increase significantly as soon as light rail begins services. This is a great location for "smart growth" (mixed us

Re: [Mpls] Iraq and City Council - Rebuttal

2002-09-30 Thread Barbara Lickness
No Jordan - My diatribe was made to point out that Dean appears to be spending more time offering resolutions about issues 12,000 miles from here than he is on doing something about the issue of crime in Phillips. I will repeat again that there are many people who live along Bloomington Avenue righ

RE: [Mpls] Roosevelt library

2002-09-30 Thread John Dillery
>From Metro Transit Sector 5 Project Manager regarding current thinking on buses serving Roosevelt Library at 28th Ave S & 40th St. We propose to keep Route 19 intact on 28th Ave between 58th St. and 38th St., and on its current route to Golden Valley and Robbinsdale via Cedar Ave, Downtown Mpls,

Re: [Mpls] The Suburbs honored in Minneapolis

2002-09-30 Thread Barbara L. Nelson
Now that is a very cool idea! Why not have a Minneapolis walk-of-fame in front of the Hard Rock Cafe on Block E? Since we are the music center of the Midwest and have lots of musicians that have gone global, I think we have plenty to toot our horn about. (How's that for a metaphor?) It would

[Mpls] Great day for a parade!

2002-09-30 Thread Gibson, Kristi
FULL LIBRARY SERVICE RETURNS DOWNTOWN To celebrate the return of full library service downtown, Minneapolis Public Library's precision book cart drill team will march in formation from the old library at 300 Nicollet Mall to the new location in Marquette Plaza TODAY at noon. Service had been limi

[Mpls] unsubscribe

2002-09-30 Thread Sheila Delaney
>From: ken avidor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [Mpls] McLaughlin on how to get "big things" done. >Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:48:53 -0500 > > From a statement by Peter McLaughlin on the Midtown Community Works >web site

[Mpls] McLaughlin on how to get "big things" done.

2002-09-30 Thread ken avidor
From a statement by Peter McLaughlin on the Midtown Community Works web site: http://www.midtowncommunityworks.org/petermclaughlinp.html "The only way to get 'big things' done is through strategic partnerships. Through many initiatives I have learned that it is essential to mobilize the

[Mpls] Where to take kids in Minneapolis

2002-09-30 Thread Kelliher, David
Next spring, there will be an additional place in Minneapolis to take kids of all ages -- the Mill City Museum on the Minneapolis Riverfront. The museum will feature hands-on, interactive exhibits on milling, waterpower and the history of the city and the region (created by the same folks who

[Mpls] Get together RSVP

2002-09-30 Thread Renee Jenson
I hope to see lots of those Southsiders at the get together on Friday to see if they are as fiery as they are in their posts.  I have a bag of mini donuts for the list manager (he has a particular fondness for them) and I intend to get Craig out on the polka floor at least once (married or n

[Mpls] War's local links: Iraq /Minneapolis connection

2002-09-30 Thread Lydia Howell
With city and state budgets drastically cut, one critical place to look for where so much of our immense wealth goes is to a huge military budeget. As Kushner posted, how much of what goes for war could be spent to vitalize our inner cities: REAL economic developement with education,job trai

Re: [Mpls] Iraq and City Council - Rebuttal

2002-09-30 Thread Gypsycurse7
I want to thank Jordan for his summary of flawed assumptions which, while it might wander a little past the borders of Minneapolis, displays how politics really works in Minneapolis and elsewhere. Linda Mann Kingfield ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil Ci

[Mpls] The Suburbs honored in Minneapolis

2002-09-30 Thread List Manager
No Iraq, but rock 'n' roll: '80s band gets "Suburbs Week in the City of Minneapolis," courtesy of Hizzoner RT Rybak, a major fan. http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/4166468.htm Tasty quotes: "Now that I'm in City Hall, I've decided that love is, in fact, not the law," said Rybak, allud

[Mpls] Iraq and the City Council

2002-09-30 Thread Diane Wiley
I just returned from attending a seminar in Philadelphia and took some time to go to the visitors center and see the Liberty Bell.  I could  not believe how moved I was.  And it seemed all that much more important given the times we are living in.  If we go to war with Iraq it will affect ou