[Mpls] Biernat conviction

w ward, but does live in the current one. Regardless of whether she intends to run, the north side should scoop her up and hoist her on its shoulders as an up-and-coming leader. Fran Guminga Bottineau, free at last ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focuse

[Mpls] Mpls Awards - no more!

ve already substituted the dinners at International Market Square (which participants paid for, anyway) for coffee and cookies. What's next, eliminating 24 hour snowplowing? Oh, wait a minute . . . Fran Guminga Bottineau ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Cit

[Mpls] Library director hire delayed by pay

ve worked with Jesse. Fran Guminga Overly qualified in Bottineau ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@;mnforum.org Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls

[Mpls] Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act at Boom Island

the Mississippi Corridor Neighborhood Coalition (MCNC) Join elected officials and water testing volunteers in showing your concerns for our rivers and waterways Protect Our Waters. Protect the Clean Water Act. For more information, contact: MCNC Tel: 612.331.4738 mcnc@2z,net Fran Guminga

[Mpls] Nordeast -- no more

of the rich history of their grandparents or greatgrandparents and really believe Polish people are stupid. "Nordeast" should be relegated to the trash heap along with all the other slurs. Fran Guminga Bottineau, Northeast ___ Minneapolis Issues

[Mpls] Dopey water "protection" scheme

fish from the river, and especially not the carp that feed on the river bottom. Fecal coliform (poop) contamination is also a concern. Fran Guminga Bottineau ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL P

[Mpls] Brian Rice and the Park Board

but it was not because Brian Rice did not do an effective job. It was the MPRB's first (of two) resolutions opposing the Kondirator that started the legal ball rolling, thanks to former Park Commissioner Patty Hillmeyer and Brian Rice. Fran Guminga Bo

[Mpls] Lowry Avenue Corridor Plan

ess. Numbers do count. The northeast portion of the plan will not be implemented for several years, so there is time for changes to be made if residents make their voices heard. Fran Guminga Bottineau ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion -

[Mpls] New Park Board digs

enjoyed for decades along their riverfront and the lakes. Fran Guminga Bottineau ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e

[Mpls] Help Stop Transport of Nuclear Waste

. Minneapolis 10:00 AM Thursday, June 13th PRESS CONFERENCE AND RALLY Xcel Energy Center Seventh Street and Kellogg Downtown Saint Paul Show your support for nuclear responsibility! For more information contact Andrea Kiepe at Clean Water Action Alliance (612) 623-3666 Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward

[Mpls] Riover Clean up Saturday, June 1

le leave with a better appreciation of our Great River and acquire more knowledge about how to protect it. Fran Guminga Bottineau ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls

[Mpls] Decorum reminder

To list manager Brauer re decorum issue: think "metaphor." ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls

[Mpls] Biernat's latest indictments

at are tied to his case, he remains in a decision-making role. What a fool. Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3 ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls

[Mpls] DFL Feminist Caucus

even acknowledge or ask about my record on feminist issues seemed bizarre. Sounds like not much has changed. Fran Guminga Bottineau ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe,

[Mpls] Xcel gas conversion

r its action. However, it took 30 years (since the Clean Air Act) and a lotta citizen activism to make it happen. Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3 member of MCNC ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [

[Mpls] Biernat endictment

goes to the businesses he regulates and asks them to put up campaign signs during the last election, clearly an ethical gaff if not a legal violation. In a recent article in the Star-Tribune, one of his political allies was quoted as saying Joe "knows right from wrong." We will see.

[Mpls] MPIRG Earth Day Environmental Justice Event

ental justice and what YOU can do to help. SPEAKERS: Annie Young (co-founder of the Green Institute, associate director of Institute for Community and Environment, MPLS Park Commissioner), Fran Guminga (co-founder of the Mississippi Corridor Neighborhood Coalition and Bottineau Citizens in Action),

[Mpls] Clean Energy Now Launches Sign Campaign April 13

liance 326 Hennepin Avenue E. Minneapolis, MN 55414 (612) 623-3666 phone (612) 623-3354 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fran Guminga Bottineau ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, U

[Mpls] Work Up A Sweat for Global Warming: A Mpls Issue

is as appropriate as airport noise, considering that the planes do not fly over the Mpls air space exclusively. Fran Guminga Bottineau, within the Xcel Riverside pollution corridor ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post mes

[Mpls] Clean Energy Now campaign event

eakers include: Senators Wellstone and Dayton, Rep. McCollum, > Mayors R.T.Ryback and Kelly, the City Councils of Minneapolis and St. Paul, > State Representatives including Mariani, Wagenius and others. > > For more information, please contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fran Guminga Miss

[Mpls] Guthrie

loper. Unfortunately, the redevelopment of the upper corridor appears to be going in the same direction. When will we learn? Fran Guminga Bottineau, river front neighborhood in NE ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messag

[Mpls] Pollution permit meetings

Riverside. Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3 ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls

[Mpls] Riverview site

tools to do it. All the posts on "What's Missing" should be a clue that sometimes you can't bring back what you used to take for granted. Fran Guminga On the river in Bottineau ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion -

[Mpls] What's Missing - mostly NE

and the rest of the Little Cannons got their start. Garrison Keillor’s early morning radio broadcasts for MPR from St. John’s U. when MPR was a pup Harry’s and Charlies downtown Streetcars Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3 ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil

[Mpls] Riverview site

parcel for habitat enhancement, river cleansing green space, an urban retreat for north and northeast residents and a legacy for our grandchildren? Fran Guminga Bottineau, with two river front parks and the last vestiges of historic, 19th century river

[Mpls] JADT One More Time

ow is positioning himself as part of the new "clean sweep" team. It ain't lookin so differnt to me yet. Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3 ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTE

[Mpls] JADT Riverview Supper Club development

at a new mayor and several new council members will bring a fresh approach to upper river corridor redevelopment and to a Citizen Advisory Committee process. Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3 ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Dem

[Mpls] Public Meeting on Xcel RIverside Coal Plant

Riverside Power Plant Public Meeting We need you to attend a public hearing on the Xcel Riverside coal burning power plant. 7:00-9:00 PM Thursday, November 29 Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church 1509 27th Avenue NE, Minneapolis 6 blocks east of Central, on the corner of Lincoln St. and 27th Ave. (

[Mpls] Back to the Metal Shredder

resource on the North American continent have been left in the dust again. Some have suggested that they are tired of the Kondirator issue. Me, too. Problem is, it is symbolic of our never learning from our mistakes. Fran Guminga Bottineau, Third Ward ___ Minn

[Mpls] Isaacs family (was Kondirator and DOE radioactive material)

the river and the adjoining neighborhoods. And if you are concerned about Kahn's role in the "DFL tax and spend machine" at the Legislature, how about the $8 million settlement between the city (taxpayers) and AIS for a botched Kondirator permitting process? Fran Guminga A Bloodied Soldier

[Mpls] N, NE & SE Energy & Environment Forum Sept 15

You are invited to the Saturday, Sept 15 NORTH, NORTHEAST & SOUTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS Energy and Environment Forum Take the opportunity to discuss your neighborhood's environmental concerns with your elected officials. Let them know what YOUR priorities are! 9:30 AM coffee and doughnuts 10:00 AM

[Mpls] Meet Third Ward Council and Mayoral Candidates "Under the Tent"

In Action. Sent on behalf of Third Ward Neighbors In Action Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward Three ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls

[Mpls] Graco correction

In my earlier post on Graco, I stated they produced 464,658 tons of chemical pollutants. It should have read POUNDS, not tons. Still a whole load of bad stuff, especially when combined with all the other sources, but Dyna Sluyter can rest easier. Her hands won't turn green quite as fast. :-)

[Mpls] Graco

ces are in their specific neighborhoods. We hope the Hawthorne neighborhood participates since it has the second highest number of pollution sources in the upper river corridor. Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3 ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post mes

[Mpls] Naked emperors and Third Ward representation

e in my memory to vote for change. All of them will be out in the community meeting voters. Get to know them. One of them WILL BE the next Third Ward Council Member if you get out and vote for change. Third Ward Neighbors In Action will be sponsoring a "Meet the Candidates Under the Tent&quo

[Mpls] Bottineau Park

disaster. Yet they keep getting the blessing of the DFL activists, so why should they change? Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3 ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls

[Mpls] Northeast Celebrations and Attractions

tour, it is not on the Art-A-Whirl map, you have never seen a story in the Strib or the Northeaster. But you heard it here. Stop by some time. 7. Then there is the Town Pump, now inauspiciously called the Yacht Club, which was once owned by my dad dur

[Mpls] Mayoral Candidate Stenglein

s that come to some our cynical minds are either 1) the candidate's main goal is to obtain the power and prestige of high elective office, and will take any position at any time in order to advance that goal, or 2) the candidate is hiding his real agenda in order to avoid offendin

[Mpls] Separate Park Board/Kondirator

o be bad for us and the river, we are told "we will never make that mistake again." But, of course, we do. Fran Guminga Bottineau, where the Kondirator fight began with Randy Kouri ten years ago Ward 3 ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota

[Mpls] Separate Park Board

body to oppose it. Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3 ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls

[Mpls] Mpls Third Ward Council Candidates

Third Ward Neighbors In Action P.O.Box 18503, Minneapolis, MN 55418 ❖ Message line: 651 251-0545 P R E S S R E L E A S E April 17, 2001 Minneapolis, MN For Immediate Release For more information: Frances Guminga, 612-781-1191, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Third Ward Neighbors In Action Announces Al

[Mpls] Nursing homes

nd in-home care providers, but the funding for these facilities and services is not there, and again the pay is so low that it is difficult to attract and keep good employees. That's our future. You heard it here first. Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3 __

[Mpls] Nursing Homes and Mpls connection

units which are not currently subsidized? Regardless of the funding source, nursing homes and other services for seniors are issues for Mpls residents, so it seems fair game for Mpls Issues. However, if this does not meet the test, so be it. Fran Gumin

[Mpls] Nursing Homes/elderly services

n needs are left out. Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3 ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls

[Mpls] Third Ward Neighbors In Action

story about how much incumbent Joe Biernat raised and from whom? Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3 ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e

[Mpls] Peterson Moving

stically expect these new suburbanites to support state or county initiatives to help the core cities after we have "shown them the door" with a crumbling infrastructure and a real estate market too pricey for famili

[Mpls] State law on non-profits

fect, but before we get behind something else, let's give it wide discussion and seek input from more of those in the trenches. Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * F. Guminga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

[Mpls] What's Going On in the Third Ward

Great to see Third Ward residents finally doing something about an unresponsive CM. It seems that there is more interest in who the people are who are looking for a candidate than the fact that they are looking. At least one name has surfaced on this list. Go for it, Third Ward folks! With the

[Mpls] Stamp out extraneous post material!

Here is my periodic plea to eliminate extraneous lines from your reply posts. Those of us who get the digest version nearly run our wrists off the mouse pad scrolling through line after line of duplicated posts. Find the delete key. It is your/my friend. Fran Guminga Bottineau, Ward 3