if both sides tried to engage in community mediation
before reaching the solution of a new ordinance. Seems that would be the
logical first step.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
389.30 Definitions. The following terms whenever used in this article shall
have the
following respective meanings:
Mobile Refrige
Derek Burrow Reise wrote:
I'm undecided on my Ward 9 city council race (got to know who's running
first). But stuff like this just makes me lean more and more towards Gary
Schiff.
[Gregory Luce]
Buoyed by the ringing endorsement of Jim Graham, the Luce at Large campaign
announces i
ed by law, rather than offered up ethically, and it leaves a bad
taste behind amid continued questions of ethical commitment when it counts.
Likely the last you'll hear from me on this issue, as I've flogged and
flagged it enough.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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easy as promoting tech centers and
publicizing--perhaps on campaign literature--where they are and what they
have to offer. Other times it involves the more serious and pending
question of how to pen up possibilities by providing city-wide wireless
access.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul [though likely
writers' toes or fingers,
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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. If people want to gripe about
poor decision-m
a 1960s-era box that was difficult to expand or
update and constructed in such a way as to hold together for only forty
years."
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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Thanks for the article. The County also has the nifty on-line ability to
review financial reports of candidates, though the link to get there does
not reproduce well. Go to:
www.co.hennepin.mn.us
Then look on the right-hand side under Online Services for "Campaign
Finance."
Grego
ted a blog:
www.sinaubongo.blogspot.com
Participants welcome.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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the City? Last we heard publicly, we
had this statement from Laura Sether: "we will make a decision about this
issue in consultation with our attorneys and other independent nonpartisan
advisers."
What say you team of attorneys and independent nonpartisan advisers?
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
mpare schools once you narrow your list. I
can't say much for the rest of the site as I have not really used it, but
the school choice component is pretty useful and intuitive.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
Liz Greenbaum wrote:
Oh my goodness you are so right! Their website is impossible. In my opinio
geographically and socio-economically
with the schools, especially the smorgasbord of excellent schools in the
area where we are looking.
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St. Paul [Page connected]
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d City policies and procedures.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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ht
the option to choose Ramsey,
Barton, or others, I'd love to hear perspectives, particularly from parents
of existing school kids. But, I'm not so interested in debating the pros
and cons of a particular pedagogy or reliving the debate about arts in the
schools.
Gregory Luce
St. P
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[Gregory Luce]
Hey, I'll give the Mayor all the time in the world to consider and respond
to the legality of his action, and that's surely what he has to do now.
But, I'm more concerned that a larger and more subtle issue is being missed
here, and that is the ethical use of public exp
ured.
Don't get me wrong. While I have policy disagreements with RT, I do like
what I see. My mind's open on a second term, as well as looking at other
candidates. But I have to say that it is disconcerting in the least for a
candidate and mayor who values clean elections and acccountab
en, unfortunately not by ethics, but by the huge hit the campaign
will take by shelling out more than $42K).
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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d here and set a good example for us
all?
Gregory Luce
St. Paul (but who may be a Minneapolis voter by Fall)
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Now, before folks personalize this, I certainly acknowledge NRP's remarkable
success of involving residents. It's remarkable to see and, in agreement
with Barb Lickness, a model of citizen participation. But, as she also
said, it's not perfect. I believe it could use a
agree that it is a slippery slope, I agree that
it takes some fairly charismatic, strong, and visionary leaders to make that
step while holding on to the parks' core power and functions. Maybe we
don't have that currently but instead have more parochial-minded leaders.
My mind's open
ue distinguish
anyone--e.g., Mayor Rybak (who questions indendent boards, particularly the
Park Board) from County Commissioner McLaughlin (whose position I don't
know).
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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#x27;bring him down' so
that he is not such a brash, articulate, and politically threatening figure.
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St. Paul
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m just not invested in any way in it
other than to ask some questions and outline the not so unusual frustration
at the ability to secure action and heat on one issue but not on others
seemingly more important.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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lication of environmental justice in all this, particularly the
attempt to link leaf blowers to asthma (and some have also said lead
poisoning). Sure, there may be a slight connection. But, be honest. This
is about noise and nuisance, not concern about asthma in our children or
exhaust
; Think of the
power.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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e ordinance and its comparison to racist practices of the
past. Enslaving Africans cannot in any way be compared to a limitation on
where you get off with your next Camel.
Now, Happy New Year.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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ule is now online on our website at:
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Project 504
Residing in St. Paul
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free to provide feedback and
suggestions on the guide.
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Residing in St. Paul
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and look forward to the remaining months he has with the
council.
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St. Paul
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For state and nationa
dress poverty in the city, other than to displace people? While the job
is not all on the shoulders of city government, something has to happen
somewhere before we become, in the famously paraphrased words of President
Bush, "the haves, and the have some mores."
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St. Pau
posal. I beg for open debate now, instead of putting people like
me (who advocate for increased digital access for all) in reaction-mode
later.
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St. Paul
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for the State is one that runs with the land.
So, yet another complication in a complicated transaction.
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St. Paul
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ominantly white 'fortress neighborhoods'
keeping these projects out. If there is context others would like to add to
the Court's finding, it would be good to get that context.
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St. Paul
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on average from rent, and more as Alliance rent is
escalated. I certainly understand the vagaries of capital costs, but
remember that all three theaters have been completely restored in the last
ten years. So, why does it appear we passing up $300,000+ of potential
revenue each year--plus selling
The net inflows to the City are, effectively, what it may save in capital
costs each year, which the HTG proposal essentially estimates at $200,000
(increased 3% for inflation some years). But, while the Alliance-Ordway
proposal
This is a key question. As many may remember from the Brookfield/Gav
o make this deal work?
I'm not betting I'll get clear answers, but I will bet these issues have
been discussed, perhaps ad nauseum. Would love to know, if anyone does have
a guess.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
David Brauer
Kingfield
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ntity in the Twin Cities has broader direct public support and a stronger
commitment to the public good [than the Ordway]." I obviously neglected the
Guthrie and the Children's Theater, two real gems with broad public support.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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life to benefit from this deal.
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St. Paul
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Anybody know what happened this morning with this issue at the City Council,
or is still pending? I checked the webcast just now but only got some nice
Muzak and some graphics.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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I'm discouraged by this trend and ask council members to believe in and
accept the Ordway proposal.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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olks. I'd like to know if privately owned HTG/Clear Channel has any
commitment to this issue. Same goes for the Ordway--which, however, is a
known entity with a commitment to serving the local theater community,
particularly in supporting the arts for kids.
So, a HUGE deal for Minneapolis an
ting long
overdue.
"This is a great opportunity to sit down and say, 'We have a lot of common
interests and we should pursue them together at the state Legislature," said
Benson, chairman of the Minneapolis council's Committee on Intergovernmental
Relations.
Gregory Luce
St. Pau
manufacturers.
Gregory Luce
Project 504 (Jordan)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Gregory Luce or Joan Resner
Phone: (612) 221-3947 or (612) 221-3946
MILWAUKEE LEAD-PAINT CASE BEGS THE QUESTION:
WHAT IS MINNEAPOLIS DOING?
A Wisconsin court decision forcing
one
but one of those precincts (W11-P3) by at least a 2 to 1 margin.
The results mirror our very unscientific poll of this list, with 75% of
those surveyed favoring Kerry and 14% favoring Bush, with the remainder
divided primarily between Nader and the Greens.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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e get decent results, we'll post them here later today. Here is the
link to the survey:
www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=7294701425
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St. Paul
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remainder. I'm not getting the outrage
here, unless it actually relates to further wrangling over the choice of
police chief.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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at civic function to do so. But isn't the city council acting
reasonably in approving partial payment of $24,000 of a total of $31,000?
Isn't the line being drawn here that the city agrees that fees should be
paid, just not at $350 an hour?
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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, and the Center for Neighborhoods. It also used a facilitator from
the Center for Policy, Planning and Performance.
I happen to live in St. Paul, but the Summit did not cover issues concerning
St. Paul.
Gregory Luce
East Minneapolis
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beginning people were engaged in a meaningful way
organizing around a positive outcome.
The final report is still available online at:
www.center4neighborhoods.org/Community_Summit%20report%20PDF.pdf
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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ved by the
landlord), then you can ask for and collect the fee and process the
application. That allows a clear record as to who was first in applying,
and it also complies with state law and the new ordinance.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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day after being notified that a tenant is coming to get it.
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St. Paul
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understand the ordinance more completely. Look for it in next week's 504
Weekly.
Gregory Luce
Project 504
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Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Oct 24-30.
Please be assured that our quality assurance department has been reassigned
to light duty work.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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Oh, yeah, Go Sox!
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Group commiseration is nice, but after a while it's misery. Take a step
further to see if you can get things reviewed and possibly changed.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
Maybe this is part of the plan. Get the citizens so fed up with the delays
on 55 that they won&#x
l directly. I'm constantly surprised how open and
available they are for a city of this size.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
PS: As to Chris Johnson's suggestion of forming a German-American group to,
I assume, increase participation of German-Americans in the process--hey,
all the power t
superior' other than to ask, perhaps, some
good questions that deserve some thought. Let's hope we have a discussion
along those lines.
Gregory Luce
Project 504
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s (particularly non-geopraphic) in addition to
neighborhoods that could work toward increasing citizen participation?
Who/What do we lose if we define citizen participation solely by geographic
concerns?
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St. Paul
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Project 504
Living in St. Paul
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there
are times when you need an ordinance to protect tenants from really being
cold when it gets down to 32 or so at night but ekes up to 60 or 61 during
the day.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
For Minneapolis landlords and tenants out there, a Project 504 public
service announcement on heat. This i
For Minneapolis landlords and tenants out there, a Project 504 public
service announcement on heat. This info has already appeared on our
separate TenantNet list serv, so apologies for those receiving it twice.
Due to the recent cold weather at night, we are getting our annual heat and
e-mail cal
erns often raised by those who
feel shut out?
3. Is the 'neighborhood' unit the absolute best citizen participation
unit, or are there others (particularly non-geopraphic) in addition to
neighborhoods that could work toward increasing citizen participation?
Who/What do we lose if we d
PDF form.
In my mind, continuing to press solely for a geographic focused citizen
participation model is short-sighted and will continue to falter for its
failure to adequately include other affinity groups, such as tenants or
ethnic or cultural organizations or interests.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
behavior. But it's really just a different way to set out
state law, probably in a more understandable way. Why CCP/SAFE hangs
its hat so regularly and forcefully on these addendums is a bit strange
if not humorous, actually.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
=
"Never doubt that a small grou
more consultation with local
landlords --but, ultimately, you're talking the game of politics, and
with that there seems to be no real good or sufficient rules of
engagement.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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Minneapolis MN 55411
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and tenants alike. Given the abuses already occurring and the chance of
making the industry change, I think the ordinance may provide a better
go at it.
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St. Paul
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t better and
more focused screening practices). I see the cap on fees as a fair
compromise.
A quick comment about Steve Brandt's note of criticsm toward his
colleague: the story did indicate the tenant had an earlier eviction
case in March and had disclosed that to the landlord.
G
ds of physicians. I for one
would support a better way to provide independent assurance that all the
dots have been, well, dotted.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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oice-activation, DVD-based, 6.5-inch color LCD display integrated with
Audiophile Sound System with 6-disc in-dash CD changer" should allow
quick and easy GPS navigation using the City's designated truck routes.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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re considered
the swing votes. Lilligren wouldn't say which way he was leaning; Benson
supports the waiver plan.
"We had meetings, but it seemed as though from the first day the outcome
was predetermined," said Mike Jennings, president of the Minnesota
Licensed Beverage Association.
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bsite and pass the word
along to your friends and colleagues!
www.housingminnesota.org/downloads/GOTVFlyer072204.pdf
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contributor in my mind, however, should be the manufacturers that caused
the problem, in the same way that Northwest Airlines is often the target
of noise mitigation efforts.
Now, who will step up with the will and leadership to make that happen?
We've got a goal of the year 2010 to eliminate
, predominantly white, who
deal with the nuisance of airline noise?
Airport noise mitigation funding and lead-hazard control funding is
certainly not apples to apples. But, ultimately, it is a fundamental
question of priorities that belies the phrase 'where there's a will,
there&#
ake toward fruition. It's frustrating enough
being a public servant in an age of remarkable nastiness--but they don't
deserve derision or unsupported allegations of criminal behavior simply
because someone disagrees with a particular decision or approach.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
REMINDE
ned and on the
take. I'm not asking why you may disagree with the decisions made along
the way--I'm asking genuinely for why you think this is a federal
criminal case.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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by implication
people who are generally known but not named, and slanders those who may
not be named but are intended to be included by implication in the
reader's mind. That's unacceptable. How about more specifics that have
a factual basis and individual context, rather than asking g
As SRC's Jo Miller indicated in an earlier post, the US Attorney's
office is announcing enforcement actions today against North Minneapolis
landlord Robert Zeman and the Minnesota-based property management firm
Dominium Management Services, for their alleged failure to comply with
the federal lead
There's a simple answer to why Hirshfield's is listed as the owner and
Hey City as the taxpayer: this property is owned under a contract for
deed.
Until the contract for deed is satisfied, Hirshfield's will remain the
owner. It retains the fee title until the contract is paid off, at
which point
take a breath and relax--it won't happen.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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rket rate units who are involved in
various ways in helping 16 other families in the remaining units, plus
supportive services.
I guess now we'll have to see if CVI works where it is located or if,
according to its opponents, it is a colossal failure waiting to happen.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
R
portive housing of the kind proposed and/or being implemented by
Collaborative Village Initiative or Lydia House are good models to help
with these issues.
So, thanks for the ideas, Bill--they are appreciated. And I apologize
if you believe I was personalizing the posts and implying you were a
big
ohibit ETS in indoor enclosed spaces. You may think it's unreasonable
and council members and others are unreasonable for thinking that way,
but ce'st la vie at times.
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St. Paul
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#x27;m a fan of co-housing myself
and would like to see more opportunities for it in the city.
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2971756.htm
So, ask a complicated question, get a long-winded complicated answer
that in many cases comes down to a lawyer's favorite word: depends.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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s "outdoor spaces."
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
(suddenly considering a specialty in Vice Asylum Law)
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te home and have a
cigarfest on some Saturday night. The ordinance won't touch that. Nor
will it touch a private smoking club where the members do the cleaning,
catering, food or beverage service, etc., and are not under an
employment relationship. Nor, I guess, a private club that hires one
lead-based paint hazards, particularly (but not
necessarily) if you learned anything from us. So, please consider the
survey at: www.nomorelead.org/feedback.htm
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
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Gregory D. Luce
Executive Director
Project 504
1922 - 25th Avenue North
Minneapolis MN
business cease violating the
ordinance.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
Here's the ordinance:
The City Council of the City of Minneapolis do ordain as follows:
Section 1. That a new Chapter 234 be added to the Minneapolis Code of
Ordinances to read as follows:
23
last nine years have been constructed in predominantly white
neighborhoods."
Get yours while there's still electricity!
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
Gregory D. Luce
Executive Director
Project 504
1922 - 25th Avenue North
Minneapolis MN 55411
(612) 221-3947
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www.nomorelead.org
Calling on all Minneapolis landlords (and tenants, painters, and
homeowners too!)-please take five minutes out of your online life to
complete a very brief survey about lead-based paint hazards and our
efforts to reach out to landlords and others on the issue of disclosing
these hazards before they
I've been meaning to ask, despite likely showing how I may be
politically well out of the loop, but just what is it payback for? I
ask genuinely, as I'm scratching my head and waiting for one of those
less and less frequent "Ahaah" moments.
Gregory Luce
St. Paul
The List Man
In an encore performance, we deliver late again. Number 6 hot off the
electronic press and available at:
www.project504.org/504WeeklyReport.htm
In this issue:
DUH! The bass-ackwards decisions of HUD on voucher issues and on the
attempted firing of the head of its Office of Healthy Homes and Le
Once again, the continuing saga of a struggling nonprofit, available at
your favorite space-age newsstand:
www.project504.org/504WeeklyReport.htm
In this episode:
'IT'S WHACK!' More than 200 tenants and advocates rally at Minneapolis'
HUD office, telling HUD to "show us the money."
HEY, MA, WE
Just realized that, as a St. Paul resident, I'm obviously not better at
math than folks in St. Paul's western suburbs:
17 District Councils in St. Paul (not 9), and 7 part-time council
members (not 9). Ooops.
Gregory Luce
Project 504 (Jordan)
St. Paul resident
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ief comes in and he says he's going to shake things up, but he
doesn't really understand the department. So he does something at the
top but when it shakes out, the troops at the bottom will be doing
things the same way they always have."
I tell ya, we get things done over here in St.
The fourth installment of a fascinating reality-based series, available
at:
www.project504.org/504WeeklyReport.htm
V-OUCH! New Federal Directive May Mean Section 8 Voucher Terminations.
How last year's costs ain't covering this year's, and what advocates and
tenants may do about it. MPHA expect
to sell for $172,000 per unit
on average. PPL is proposing a $600,000 developer fee, which it is not
deferring.
Gregory Luce
Project 504
Residing in St. Paul
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Council committee approves Sears deal:
>From the story:
Goodman said she looked hard at the numbers before taki
Minneapolis to be socked with
a $200 per month tax bill, sign on to our petition at
www.project504.org/action.htm. It's not too late.
Gregory Luce
Project 504
Residing in St. Paul
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Gregory Luce
Project 504
Residing in St. Paul
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ginal post as well as here. Here it is:
NAACP Branch Leader Chided
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4738297.html
Gregory Luce
Project 504
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