People ask over and over again why the city so often concedes large
out-of-court settements to plaintiffs in "thumping" suits yet never
manages to fire the cops involved. I'm no lawyer, but I suspect one
of the reasons these cops remain beyond reach is that the city's
contract with the Police
Strib's Steve Brandt writes:
Calling Minneapolis schools "a broken system," interim Superintendent David
Jennings is urging the school board to radically remake the district.
Board members plan to begin giving shape to possible changes at a
retreat today, where Jennings will offer three provo
This message was forwarded to me and I thought it might be of interest to the
list. A very inspiring community art space in Minneapolis was just recenly
lost to fire. Please contact Meg if you have ideas for funds and other support
so that a new space can rise up soon!
Bruce Shoemaker
Holland
Governor Pawlenty recently authored yet ANOTHER
million dollars for the "consultants", the law firm of
Smith Parker and Tom Johnson. I've lost track of the
running total that has been spent on consultants, but
with this million it will be over the $3 million mark,
I think about $3.5 million or mor
As David Brauer observed, the links do work on the agenda for the
Transportation and Public Works Committee on the City Council page.
A little investigation showed that Acrobat had become corrupted on our
computer. . . . A reinstall, and I was able to open the links.
Mea Culpa.
Here's my o
Proponents of the project have long espoused that the project is of, by and
for the community. Now we know who has been/is in the driver's seat. I urge
the council to not be hi-jacked by Allina's threat to withhold jobs.
Jeanne Massey
Kingfield
- Original Message -
From: "Jeff Carlson"
The transportation planners and paid lobbyists who are
plowing the 35W Excess Project through the public
process will make a cameo at City Hall tomorrow.
They will be asking for 151,000 in city money, money
that could be spent on bike lanes, sidewalk repair, or
new benches, but instead will pay th
A few questions for city council members tomorrow:
1) Why is the project being presented for approval PRIOR to completion of
the Environmental Assessment and PRIOR to the formal public meeting required
as part of the Environmental Assessment?
2) How is the City going to justify spending $150,000
Leurquin, Ronald wrote (somewhat tongue in cheek):
Maybe we could use these ideas to eliminate the freeways through our fine city.
Sean Ryan wrote:
Some interesting excerpts from 'The Minneapolis Plan', adopted in 1998
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/citywork/planning/planpubs/mplsplan/oldver
I generally don't question the intentions antiracists who define racism as
"prejudice plus power," and stipulate that all whites, and only whites have
prejudices and power, and are therefore all "racists" and that persons of color
cannot be racist. However, I do question the effectiveness of the
on 1/19/04 3:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What follows is language from the agenda posted on the City of Minneapolis
> website. (http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/)
>
> You'll be pleased to know that all the links to supporting documents in the
> agenda on the we
VF: Thanks for taking the time to look through the site, and BTW, my name is
Vanessa Freeman, and you really don't have to dig through the website, most
of what is said about UV is out in plain site for example's see below:
EY: I'm sorry that I got Vanessa Freeman's name wrong (I called her
V
And what does this mean exactly? - "checking out the organization"...
From what I've heard - the references about religion and God were not
in their website originally but were added on when this confrontation
started last summer. The schools checked out the website and didn't find
anything and
It certainly has been a busy week at City Hall. . . .
TOMORROW at 10:30, Council Chamber, Room 317 The Transportation and Public
Works Committee will be working on ram-rodding the 35W Excess project a
little deeper into your life and pocketbook. (The meeting proper begins at
9:30AM.)
What f
On 1/16/04 3:56 PM, "Dan McConnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was under the impression that the reason for recycling was to reduce the
> amount of materials that end up in a landfill, not to provide additional
> income to the city. While I don't think that making more money off of this
> pr
Please Attend the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Commissioners
next regular meeting
Where: MPRB headquarters building, 2117 West River Road
When: Wednesday, January 21
General meeting time is 5-8pm, public comments taken at 6:15pm.
Upcoming issues the com
Hmmm
Maybe we could use these ideas to eliminate the freeways through our fine city.
Just think if 94 and 35W didn't make it so easy to drive thru town.
Busses and trains would make much more sense then.
Maybe some of the suburbanites would actually consider living within say 10 miles of
their
From: Chris Johnson:
Yes, I agree. The city ought to master plan the whole city. Not that
these selfish drivers would follow the design, or that Hennepin County or
the State of Minnesota (especially) would actually LET them.
Some interesting excerpts from 'The Minneapolis Plan', adopted in 1998
In Logan Park they simply didn't empty the trash. No ticket. No Warning. Two
weeks worth of garbage doesn't work in a can designed for only one, their
point was made. A drift or embankment would be an impediment, but an inch of
fluffy snow on the 24 inches of driveway between the can and the all
Chris Johnson wrote:
Was he charged with a petty misdemeanor, a gross misdemeanor or a
felony? Do we forgive a "felony mistake" as easily as a "petty
misdemeanor mistake?"
WM: My point is, for any ex-felon, there is a right to privacy. If
he/she has not applied to you for a job of work, there
EY posted this to me saying something in a post..: VL: I am a Jewish parent
and seeing the may
> references made, would have prompted me to call and get further info
> about what
> and how they do > business, in particular what is being served for
> lunches, which parents should asked anyway,
EY: With regard to Vivian Freeman's post - I went to Urban Ventures site -
and
when you dig a little on the site, there is material that suggests it's a
Christian evangelical organization. It's not clear from the mission - and
not clear from what is visible from the main page of the site - and a
Busy with Up and Out of Poverty occupying HUD foreclosed buildings demanding they be
turned over for use by poor and homeless people.As the McKinney Act directed the
government to do
Demanding meetings with the city to turn buildings over.
When we took over the Mpls Armory-- Sayles Belton
For some, school's in on King Day
Herón Márquez Estrada, Star Tribune
Published January 19, 2004
...Bemidji doesn't close its schools on the third
Monday of January, even though it was declared a
federal and state holiday almost 20 years ago.
While most public schools in the Twin Cities a
Anderson & Turpin wrote:
Randall Cutting wrote:
The point of traffic calming is not to prevent access, rather it is a
method to encourage appropriate driving behavior. Drivers that respect
the residents and businesses within a neighborhood are very welcome to be
there. Those drivers that woul
WizardMarks wrote:
Chris Johnson wrote:
Embezzlement and fraud are not victimless crimes.
WM: I made no such claim.
And I made no such claim that you had. It's a simple statement of fact.
Compare it to a parking ticket, a speeding ticket, statutory rape and
unintentional manslaughter while
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