Re: [Mpls] Pawlenty's Truancy Plan

2004-09-11 Thread Dan
>From a Star Trib article on Pawlenty's plan on the truancy issue ..."Adding that she has never even seen a truant officer, Mezee said the state would have to come up with a clever campaign and catchy slogan to get its message across. "Threats alone won't work," said the senior at Minnesota Tr

[Mpls] My questions/comments on Elroy as follow-up to timeline

2004-09-11 Thread Barbara Lickness
The Whittier neighborhood and Mpls. Planning Department spent two years studying a 40 acre area of the neighborhood that culminated in the adoption a redevelopment report containing groups finding and recommendations. This document became the policy that was supposed to determine development and su

[Mpls] Pawlenty's Truancy Plan

2004-09-11 Thread Annie Young
From a Star Trib article on Pawlenty's plan on the truancy issue ..."Adding that she has never even seen a truant officer, Mezee said the state would have to come up with a clever campaign and catchy slogan to get its message across. "Threats alone won't work," said the senior at Minnesota Tr

[Mpls] Time Line of events regarding Redevelopment of the Elroy Site

2004-09-11 Thread Barbara Lickness
Time Line for Elroy Site: 1992 – 1994 South Whittier Task Force, Whittier Alliance, MCDA 40 Acre Land Use Study and South Whittier Redevelopment Plan adopted by the City in Dec. 1993 identifying living wage job creation as the goal. Mpls. Planning Staff Report of Feb. 8, 1993, Comments and Findin

[Mpls] Hennepin County - District 4 Court Election

2004-09-11 Thread Ady Wickstrom
For information on the candidates for the 4th District Court Seat 18 who are running in the Primary on Tuesday, visit the League of Women Voters of Minnesota's Election 2004 website at www.lwvmn.org/EdFund/Election2004.asp. After entering your address, click on the "Voter Guide" tab to read the ca

[Mpls] mayor's veto

2004-09-11 Thread omar jamal
Omar Jamal Executive Director Somali Justice Advocacy Center Here we go again. I do not know Mr. Abdul Mohamed; however he is right he is an ex-employee of Sabri properties, and come to our office couple of times. He talked about how to develop good relationship between the Center and the S

[Mpls] Library stats for Hosmer

2004-09-11 Thread Dorie Rae Gallagher
Wizard, in case that is your library and if you are interested in the figures.. Adult circulation 111,463, Children 39,493 Teen 3916 Total 154, 872 in Library use 74,028 No, there is no logic but then we would not have anything to write about! Just making sure they know..we know..! Dorie G

[Mpls] Sabri and mayor's veto

2004-09-11 Thread linda huni
I live in the vicinity of the development in question and I am very informed about the project. I have attended several meetings in the neighborhood and city hall regarding this project. And I know for a fact that the neighbors and affected property owners strongly support this project. In fa

[Mpls] RT's Sabri veto? Vetoing not changing the law???

2004-09-11 Thread gemgram
Vetoing the Council's failure to take an action??? Or indeed, was the Mayor simply vetoing any change to the South Whittier Redevelopment Plan? Though Barb Lickness is correct about the transfer of the property to Basim Sabri, she is wrong about the re-bidding. Unless the City Council has specif

[Mpls] Dealing with teacher realignment and the school board race

2004-09-11 Thread Brionna Harder
Mr. Mann, As a MPS teacher (and to be fair, not one that was realigned), I would like to see more forward thinking related to the issue of realignment. You are clearly passionate about many of the issues that MPS face and I appreciate all of your very obvious hard work and care for MPS students

Re: [Mpls] R.T. hands Sabri development project

2004-09-11 Thread WizardMarks
gemgram wrote: While some political chicanery is easily forgotten, a televised bribery and the Federal trial running during the beginning of the next election cycle is just to juicy for most people to ignore. I think they will remember! Even if Sabri is able to beat the charges, still the entire Ci

Re: [Mpls] Library numbers

2004-09-11 Thread WizardMarks
Library patron usage and circulation numbers are not reflected in the hours assigned to community libraries. Hosmer had the second highest usage overall (at the time the new hours were announced) of any community library, I think, yet it is only open 4 days a week and at most, only 8 hours in a

Re: [Mpls] Spokesman reports on School Board Debate - Dayhoff makes a splash

2004-09-11 Thread Socialist2001
In a message dated 9/11/2004 12:12:43 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Many candidates, like David Dayhoff, agreed that the school system is failing because of a lack of vision and clear strategies. Dayhoff said the school board is suffering from "bungled" policies, "dis

[Mpls] RT's Sabri veto

2004-09-11 Thread Victoria Heller
Barb Lickness shares: "First, while the city may have paid $275,000 for the property (not sure about that) there is substantially more money in the site. On 8/23/96 the City Council authorized the use of $400,700 of federal MILES funds for this site. The use of these funds requires job producing i

Re: [Mpls] Spokesman reports on School Board Debate - Dayhoff makes a splash

2004-09-11 Thread Steve Nelson
> Eva Young > Near North wrote > Read the article to read what all school board candidates said. After the > debate, I talked with candidate Starway - who is running as Republican > without party endorsement. During that conversation, he mentioned that > gays were causing the downfall of civiliz

Re: [Mpls] RT's Sabri veto

2004-09-11 Thread Barbara Lickness
I want to start by clarifying a couple points that have been in the media that last couple days. First, while the city may have paid $275,000 for the property (not sure about that) there is substantially more money in the site. On 8/23/96 the City Council authorized the use of $400,700 of federal M

[Mpls] Teacher Realignment was optional & politically expedient

2004-09-11 Thread Socialist2001
[Introductory note] The district's layoff and realignment decisions are influenced by a cost containment strategy that was widely adopted by unionized employers in the 1970s, and which no longer contains costs very well. We have also seen a fairly steady decline in per-pupil spending on public e

[Mpls] RT's Sabri veto

2004-09-11 Thread David Brauer
Mayor Rybak writes: > I am passing along an excerpt from my veto letter for Karmel Plaza. The > net effect of the veto will be to send this back to the council for more > discussion, which I hope will focus on two important goals this project > delivers: creating affordable housing options along t

[Mpls] Spokesman reports on School Board Debate - Dayhoff makes a splash

2004-09-11 Thread Eva Young
Read the article to read what all school board candidates said. After the debate, I talked with candidate Starway - who is running as Republican without party endorsement. During that conversation, he mentioned that gays were causing the downfall of civilization. Starway has not approached L

[Mpls] Sabri and Mayor's veto

2004-09-11 Thread abdul mohamed
My name is Abdul Mohamed and I am an ex-employee of Sabri Properties. My wife and I are also registered voters and DFL delegates. I worked in public relations, therefore worked very closely and had several dealings with many of my Somali brothers and sisters who rent at Karmel Square and other Sa

RE: [Mpls] NCLB is anti-civil rights wine in civil rights wineskins

2004-09-11 Thread Michael Atherton
The most striking aspect of these posts attacking NCLB is the glaring lack of details and the almost exclusive reliance on rhetoric. This is true of Mr. Mann's posts where he repeatedly states that NCLB is designed to promote charter schools yet and repeatedly fails to explain how. Here again i

Re: [Mpls] Greenspan comments on schools, 2 minutes ago

2004-09-11 Thread Dorie Rae Gallagher
>Bill wrote > So our scores are higher than most in 4th grade. They aren't by 12th grade. > Couldn't there be any other variables involved besides the school "system" that > is creating less learning as years go by? Perhaps work ethic of the students or > parents insisting that their children do

[Mpls] Prospect Park East River Road Neighborhood Meeting to Kick-Off NRP Phase 2

2004-09-11 Thread Steve Cross
The Prospect Park East River Road Neighborhood will hold a meeting to formally start the process of allocating NRP Phase 2 funds to neighborhood projects. The meeting will be held at: Luxton Park Community Center Gym; Wednesday, October 13, 2004, from 7 PM - 9 PM. All persons connected with the ne

Re: [Mpls] mayor's veto

2004-09-11 Thread Eva Young
At 05:19 AM 09/11/2004 -0700, omar jamal wrote: Omar Jamal Executive Director Somali Justice Advocacy Center No wonder why sabri has been exploiting the Somali immigrants for so long. NOW we know. The mayor has to answer to the Somali community about his reckless exercise of Veto in the name of

[Mpls] mayor's veto

2004-09-11 Thread omar jamal
Omar Jamal Executive Director Somali Justice Advocacy Center No wonder why sabri has been exploiting the Somali immigrants for so long. NOW we know. The mayor has to answer to the Somali community about his reckless exercise of Veto in the name of someone who is extorting money from Somali ref

[Mpls] MPRB Board Meeting Webcasts

2004-09-11 Thread Jason C Stone
Please note that Park Board meetings are not only broadcast on cable, but are also available online. Below is a link for the 9/1 meeting. Follow the link title 'Archived copies of this meeting...' to get to archived footage. Not Netscape compatible. http://www.minneapolisparks.org/default.as