David Shove says: I think ALL the Mpls cops should be required to live
in Mpls as a condition of employment by Mpls. If they want to live in
Edina, let them cop in Edina. Why pay to be colonized by absentee-living
cops? No residence, no job.
Peter Schmitz responds: I agree, but as long as cops
I had a similar experience with a Minneapolis police officer at a social occasion earlier this summer. He told me that several years ago he
bought land and built a house almost halfway up to (Lake) MilleLac to get away
from all that city crap.
When I asked him why he lives so far away from
Dennis Plante Responds:
Maybe the answer is not to require officers to live within the City limits,
but to incentivize their pay for doing so. A long time ago, I lived in a
remote town in South Central AK (Cordova). No roads in, no roads out. If
you wanted to go elsewhere (even for the
In a message dated 9/17/03 2:35:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
FYI--Minneapolis Ordinance
244.2020. Conduct on licensed premises. (a) It shall be the
responsibility of the licensee to take appropriate action, with the
assistance of the community crime
Xcel Energy¹s voluntary metro area coal plant clean up, Metro Emissions
Reduction Program (MERP), is reported to be the largest proposed coal
pollution reduction in the Great Lakes region. The plan involves the
conversion of the St. Paul¹s High Bridge Coal Plant and Minneapolis¹
Riverside Coal
Good morning all
I have a personal experience that I can share on this topic.
Previously to living in Mpls the city I lived in required officers to live in the
city, or move within a certain time frame (I am unsure of the specifics) to keep their
jobs. The officers were given beats in areas
In a message dated 9/19/03 6:08:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I had a similar experience with a Minneapolis police officer at a social
occasion earlier this summer. He told me that several years ago he
bought land and built a house almost halfway up to (Lake)
When has the chief lived out of the city? In the past 25 years, Chief Olson,
Laux, and Bouza all lived within the city. Prior to their tenure, the MPD
Chief changed with the wind, every 2years or a new mayor which ever came. If
the new chief is chosen from outside of the department, she/he
It does not have to apply to every city employee BUT the police are in our
neighborhoods every day doing battle with what has been acknowledged is a
growing gang problem. The gangs rely on the neighborhood to protect and
support them for 2 reasons. First is the FEAR FACTOR--the threat of what
Minneapolis Bicyclists,
Please help identify problems with the Mpls. Bike Lane system:
Dr. Kevin Krizek is undertaking a study at the University of Minnesota
to better understand the conditions where bicycle lanes end in
Minneapolis. These termination points (sometimes called
discontinuities)
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4104307.html
David Brauer asked:
Here's the question I have: why do the owners of Rapid
Park need a ballpark(s) in their redevelopment at all.
The housing market remains red-hot. Why include a
cash-sucking ballpark(s) when you can have
cash-producing condos
Jim Mork wrote:
The POOR, on the other hand, think voting is someone else's job.
They vote less than anyone else on the planet. So when you TRY to
save their programs, you never plan that they will be there helping.
A LIBERAL is someone who finds that understandable and excuses it.
WM:
"StevenMN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The gangs are smart enough to recruit from the neighborhoods and MPD should be at least as smart as the gangs!!
Emily Nancy Ero-Phillips writes:
Steven has hit on something here folks. There are a couple of very smart marketing and selling tricks that gangs
In a message dated 9/19/2003 8:08:43 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I dont think it is possible or necessarily important to have officers living inside city limits; I certainly dont begrudge Minneapolis police officers of firefighters from living in Richfield, or St. Louis
Dave Piehl's post about bundling projects contains this claim:
Another example of this was the way the unpopular
Access Project tried to incorporate the popular
re-opening of Nicollet Ave; unfortunately the
association was a factor in the demise of the Nicollet
project...but that's another
Into every editor's job, a little anal-retentiveness must fall. I have a
microscopically small thing in most people's world that is a nettlesome
thing in mine, and I'm looking for reader advice and hopefully some official
standard from someone in government.
We at the Southwest Journal often
There is not a Grand Av. No. but there is a Grand St.
N.E. and someone there has the same numeric address as
my Grand Av. So. address. I have recieved that persons
mail before.
I think the streets on the northside follow the same
streets on the south. Aldrich, Bryant, Colfax, Dupont,
Emerson,
My understanding has always been that the direction in the street
name gives some indication of which part of the city the address
is in:
North, Northeast and Southeast: somewhat self-explanatory, and
-east indicates east of the river.
Downtown, everything is South.
South of downtown, avenues
I think I remember reading in the Northeaster that neighborhood
groups were asking for widening, improvement, or something be done
about the rail bridge over Lowry just west of Washington St NE,
as a part of the Lowry Ave. corridor project, but I also think I've
read that that project might be
Message below forwarded by Doug Mann, King Field
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It was just a few weeks ago that a mural representing unity and peace was
painted on the Peter Pan Dry Cleaning building at 38th and Grand Avenue by a
visiting Cuban artist, Lidia
For what it's worth, Grand Avenue could be misread as the St. Paul
destination street for many Minneapolitans without South attached to
yours.
On the other hand, for a neighborhood/regional paper, would not about 98% of
the readership immediately identify with Grand as a South Minneapolis
On 9/19/03 9:32 PM, Barbara Lickness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All bets are off in Northeast. They are heavily
presidential and not in any numeric or alpha order.
Um, the order of the presidential streets in Northeast is actually pretty
easy to follow for those who recall their U.S. history.
Giving officers incentives or requiring them to live in the city that they work in is
a good idea, however it may not have as much as an impact as you may think.
As a reserve officer with the Minneapolis Police reserve, our uniforms are almost
identical to that of the sworn officers, however
As long as everyone is coming over for the lamb roast you should also stop
by the dedication of Cedar Field and the 30-Year Anniversary of Little
Earth of United Tribes also between 2:00 and 6:00. There will be the
dedication of the newly renovated park at 2:00 with festivities continuing
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