Re: [Mpls] Re: Babylon lost in fire, years of art and effort lost in flames

2004-01-30 Thread Neal Krasnoff
On Jan 30, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Rosalind Nelson wrote: "Stand up; keep fighting" -- slogan of the late Paul Wellstone "Writin' is fightin'" -- Mohammad Ali as quoted by Ishmael Reed Context is everything. Or for a real incitement to violence, see http://www.goodfight.org/ It's a Christian Anti-

Re: [Mpls] Re: Babylon lost in fire, years of art and effort lost in flames

2004-01-30 Thread Rosalind Nelson
Neal Krasnoff wrote: > "That is obviously a lie in this case: the website clearly has a > written exhortation to "GET OUT AND FIGHT !" - the Jews, no doubt, > since the pictures have titles containing the names of Palestinian > towns. > > It is incitment to violence. That is not being committed t

[Mpls] Council votes 9-3 to endorse Access concept

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Re: [Mpls] Re: Babylon lost in fire, years of art and effort lost in flames

2004-01-30 Thread Neal Krasnoff
On Jan 30, 2004, at 12:26 AM, phaedrus wrote: Neal Krasnoff's attacks on The Babylon indicate either a personal grudge against The Babylon or a general grudge towards any organization who includes support of Palestine among their political issues. I repeat: "The Babylon, as a private entity, has

[Mpls] Warden Oil state superfund site cleanup

2004-01-30 Thread stack
Feels overwhelming to think that we have 412 more sites to clean up in the City of Minneapolis. But, I guess the only thing to do is just keep plugging away at them one at a time. With adequately funded government monitoring, enforcement, and cleanup, we should be able to make progress. Dave

[Mpls] Martin Olav Sabo Lecture Series: Rodney Slater, "Putting People First"

2004-01-30 Thread Moore, Olin
I thought this might be of interest to you. Olin Moore, Office of Congressman Martin Olav Sabo Sheridan - NEWS from Congressman Sabo Representing Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District For Immediate Release Contact: Travis Talvitie January 30, 2004 (202) 225-4755 MEDIA A

RE: [Mpls] Metro Emissions Reduction Project (MERP)

2004-01-30 Thread Jim Bernstein
In a failure of the highest magnitude, I forgot to include Sen. Linda Higgins from Minneapolis! She was not only a driving force in getting the bill passed, she was also the chief author Jim Bernstein Fulton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

[Mpls] Park Board Minutes from Dec. 17 -- How Jon Gurban was hired.

2004-01-30 Thread Chris Johnson
Here is an extract from the official Park Board Minutes of the December 17, 2003 meeting wherein the surprise candidate Jon Gurban was hired. It seems pretty clear to me who the bad guys are in this picture. I believe the next MPRB commissioners meeting is Wednesday, Feb. 4. Chris Johnson Fulton T

Re: [Mpls] Coal: the Northsiders vs. the NIMBYs

2004-01-30 Thread Joeandjeannabor
Short answer to this Mr. Leurquin: I agree with Mr. Leurguin.We are not blind. Xcel, is an 11 billion dollar company, has 5 years before having to start and complete the conversion at Riverside in 2009. There's alot of budgets and politicians between now and then. Longer answer: (On the coldest

RE: [Mpls] Proposed growler ordinance

2004-01-30 Thread MJ Mueller
Mark Wilde wrote: Giving people the opportunity to go to a bar and buy beer and drive around with it is not going to reduce the number of drunk drivers. People are going to take these things to the park and the lake and the ball game. -- A 64 ounce g

[Mpls] Proposed growler ordinance

2004-01-30 Thread Mark Wilde
"I see growlers as a win-win situation for the City of Minneapolis and myself. I get to take home good quality, locally-made beer and the Minneapolis cops have one less potentially drunk driver on the road." Scott McGerik Minneapolis Giving people the opportunity to go to a bar and buy beer and

Re: [Mpls] Warden Oil state superfund site cleanup

2004-01-30 Thread Randall G. Cutting
Congratulations Dave and all the residents of the Harrison Neighborhood! Now we only have 412 sites in the city of Minneapolis to keep our eyes on. Of those 35 are federal superfund sites, 8 are state superfund sites, and 335 are listed as "Voluntary Investigation and Cleanup" sites. MPCA Data a

RE: [Mpls] Coal: the Northsiders vs. the NIMBYs

2004-01-30 Thread Leurquin, Ronald
R.L. I was out of posts yesterday so had to save this for today. Amy was not able as of yet to return my query, so I now give it to the entire forum. How can this statement be true? Amy wrote: *It will be the first voluntary conversion in the nation! R.L. Considering all of the things mentioned h

[Mpls] Mpls sustainabiliy (was Coal: the Northsiders vs. the NIMBYs)

2004-01-30 Thread David Brauer
Y' know, Dyna, I'm starting to see your point: Alternative energy - too expensive. Go cheap, externalities (pollution - which tends to congregate in poor and working-class communities and kill them later) be damned. Organic food - too expensive. Go cheap, externalities (pollution - which tends to

Re: [Mpls] Coal: the Northsiders vs. the NIMBYs

2004-01-30 Thread Dyna Sluyter
On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 09:25 AM, Jason C Stone wrote: --- Dyna Sluyter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A few more thoughts on this subject, from a neutral viewpoint: Funny... No, quite serious- I support most environmental initatives. I didn't see many of the "Clean Energy Now" signs in