RE: [Mpls] Ballot Box: Rybak endorsed by Sierra Club

Terrell raises a good point. Lloydletta's Nooz would be willing to post Sierra Club questionaires for any candidates who want to send them my way. Eva Young Near North Lloydletta's Nooz http://lloydletta.blogspot.com [TB] When looking at who is endorsed by what organizations, we need to remembe

[Mpls] Hennepin County Lobbyist gives to Bachmann's Campaign

http://www.cfboard.state.mn.us/bdinfo/bachmann.html STATE OF MINNESOTA CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE BOARD FINDINGS IN THE MATTER OF THE ACCEPTANCE OF A CONTRIBUTION DURING THE REGULAR 2000 LEGISLATIVE SESSION BY THE (MICHELE) BACHM

Re: [Mpls] Planetarium included in bonding bill

At 10:26 PM 3/30/2005, Sheldon Mains wrote: $22 Million for the Mpls planetarium is included in the agreement just reached on the bonding bill. http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5321780.html. $24 million was requested for the $28 million dollar project. See http://www.mplanetarium.org/planet

[Mpls] Planetarium included in bonding bill

$22 Million for the Mpls planetarium is included in the agreement just reached on the bonding bill. http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5321780.html. $24 million was requested for the $28 million dollar project. See http://www.mplanetarium.org/planetarium.htm for details sheldon ...

Re: [Mpls] (no subject)

David: The planetarium is one of Neva's priorities. She doesn't have information yet, but I will send information to the list when I get it from Neva. Take care, Matthea Little Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell the list if the Planetarium made the cut in today's bonding bil

[Mpls] (no subject)

Can anyone tell the list if the Planetarium made the cut in today's bonding bill agreement? No specific word in the online papers yet. David Brauer Kingfield REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the

[Mpls] Ward 2 endorsement news

I'm new to the list and signed up to share this great news out of Ward 2: Cara Letofsky has received the endorsement of AFSCME Council 5. This is the first labor endorsement in the Ward 2 race, and the only endorsement that AFSCME is making in an open City Council seat. Cara has also received t

[Mpls] Re: Monneapolis Public Library

I know from personal experience that not having the majority of the central library collection available for the past few years has been frustrating. There have been a few items that I have wanted, but the books were unavailable because of being in storage. Having another new central library b

[Mpls] Minneapolis city council session on Instant Runoff Voting

The Minneapolis city council will have a study session on Instant Runoff Voting on April 22, beginning at 9:30 in the council chambers. Tony Solgard from FairVote MN and Susanne Griffin from the city elections office will be the primary presenters. For council link see: http://apps.ci.minneapo

[Mpls] League of Woman Voters endorses IRV for local and state elections

>From FairVote MN e-news: LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNESOTA ENDORSES INSTANT RUNOFF VOTING After an exhaustive two-year study that involved its entire membership, the League of Women Voters announced this week that the organization endorses Instant Runoff Voting for state and local elections. Fa

Re: [Mpls] Monneapolis Public Library

How many police officers wouldn't have to be cut if that money was spent more wisely? Money for Libraries is an entirely separate fund from general city money that pays for police. You can't use money from one fund to pay bills in another fund (even assuming you could get the Library Board and

RE: [Mpls] Monneapolis Public Library

If you have access to a computer you could try searching for your book at www.gutenberg.org. They've loaded 14,000 books already and are growing. It is free to use. . . . Jeremy Wieland You could also go to Distributed Proofreading at www.pgdp.net and help add books to the forever free

RE: [Mpls] Park Board to Import Geese - and square-jawed square off

Madeline writes: > > Since the DeLaSalle RUGBY match article has already been mentioned... > > (although it was far too short...hmmm...just what stuff that was too > > naughty did they not publish? that I'd like to read ;)) Thanks to everyone for the nice notes on the April Fool's issue. The

Fw: [Mpls] Park Board to Import Geese - and square-jawed square off

> Since the DeLaSalle RUGBY match article has already been mentioned... > (although it was far too short...hmmm...just what stuff that was too > naughty did they not publish? that I'd like to read ;)) > > This one had me laughing way too loud on the bus > > "Mayoral debate becomes square-

Re: [Mpls] Missing in Minneapolis

David Brauer, > "Fortunately, I lack the education to know that my 7-year-old and 4-year-old won't enjoy this, so you'll probably see us there." I only just returned from out of town, but could not resist posting on this. David take the kids, they will enjoy it. Kids are never too young to appr

[Mpls] Park Board to Import Geese

One of the many Great articles in the APRIL 1 EDITION of the Skyway News: Park Board to import geese _http://www.skywaynews.net/articles/2005/03/29/news/news12.txt_ (http://www.skywaynews.net/articles/2005/03/29/news/news12.txt) "Had enough of those Canada geese and their droppings that

Re: [Mpls] Monneapolis Public Library

The wisdom of the money being spent on the new central library was by vote of virtually 70% of the Minneapolis electorate. We did not have a perfectly functional library. We had a very badly built library with some areas where there was no ceiling clearance and most of the books immediately una

[Mpls] The Babylon Collective and Art Across Borders Fundraiser

The Babylon Collective (http://www.babylonarts.org/) and Art Across Borders Presents: The Art of Return A benefit for art projects in Iraq Food, Music, Silent Art Auction, and dancing all night Please come for a night of festivities to help raise money for Haider Al-Amery to carry out a muraling p

[Mpls] Mpls East High School

Does anybody out there know of any alumni of East High School (1900-1939) who live locally, or know if there's any sort of alumni group for the school? Please contact me offlist. Steve Brandt Staff writer Star Tribune Phone: 612-673-4438 Fax: 612-673-4359 425 Portland Av. Minneapolis, MN 5548

[Mpls] (no subject)

> Listers, > Let us pledge to ourselves that we will never, never, never build > another new public library if it means we have to put any books in > storage for years. I am so tired of being frustrated by books put on ice > so we could build on the same spot I could kick the seeds out of a pickle!

[Mpls] MN State demographer comments should impact races for city

La carencia de la respuesta, prueba mi punto. Greg Reinhardt Excelsior REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed th

Re: [Mpls] Monneapolis Public Library

> Listers, > Let us pledge to ourselves that we will never, never, never build > another new public library if it means we have to put any books in > storage for years. I am so tired of being frustrated by books put on ice > so we could build on the same spot I could kick the seeds out of a pickle!

RE: [Mpls] Monneapolis Public Library

If you have access to a computer you could try searching for your book at www.gutenberg.org. They've loaded 14,000 books already and are growing. It is fee to use. I find a lot of information for free at http://www.loc.gov/ also. This is the Library of Congress site. A decent web search is lik

[Mpls] Monneapolis Public Library

Listers, Let us pledge to ourselves that we will never, never, never build another new public library if it means we have to put any books in storage for years. I am so tired of being frustrated by books put on ice so we could build on the same spot I could kick the seeds out of a pickle! Wizar

[Mpls] DeLasalle and Grove Street

I was at the Ward 3 City Council candidate debate last night as a friend of Jeremy Wieland. Both candidates, Jeremy Wieland ( http://www.jeremywieland.blogs.com/ ) and Diane Hofstede ( http://www.dianehofstede.com/ ), when specifically asked if they would vote to abandon Grove Street if elect

[Mpls] Sabo MIA this session on Military Readiness Enhancement Act

I was very surprised to see that Sabo is not a cosponsor of the Military Readiness Enhancement Act(H.R. 1059) which would replace the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the armed forces with a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. McCollum and Oberstar are both cosponsors.

[Mpls] The Artist's Roundtable

GRANT WRITING FOR ARTISTS Monday, April 18, 2005, 7:00 - 8:30 pm Homewood Studios, 2400 Plymouth Av N, Minneapolis FREE Chris Osgood of Springboard for the Arts (www.springboardforthearts.org) will talk not only about the ins and outs of grant writing, but will help you get started with drafting a