All,
I am stunned, shocked and saddened. Officer Schmidt was an outstanding
example of a committed community police officer. Her commitment to our
neighborhood was tremendous.
Her loss will be deeply felt by the residents of Horn Terrace, so many
of them who escaped this type of violence over
List,
Earlier on this list I wrote that I felt CM Beirnet had a moral
responsibility to resign if he knew he had violated the public trust.
Clearly there is an increasing amount of evidence that he has violated
the public trust. Independent of the legal process of what is
admissible, and whose l
List,
There have been expressed some appropriate concerns about what may
appear to be a loss of opportunity at the Lake and Nicollet Corner.
These concerns have been expressed as two:
-the potential loss of the current developer to their "development
rights" on the site;
-or if the community is
List,
I would like to second the perspective of Nikki, Alan and Matthea.
(Wow, quite a diverse group of people to agree with at one time!)
For me it is not simply an issue of the ethnicity or color of the
candidates. It is an issue of background, perspective, and skills. The
aggregate skills o
List,
Just to clear up a misidentification of Colleen Moriarty and her
background. First, I am not a close friend, associate of Colleen's and
I was not involved in her School Board race in any way. But her
endorsement by the DFL is extremely well deserved.
Colleen Moriarty served, not as comm
Alan,
IF Mr. Biernat was a regular citizen working at Mills Fleet Farm and
struggling to make a living wage like the rest of us. . .I would
entirely agree with your minimization of the crime and the desire to
have less laws governing personal behavior. It would be awful if it
became a crime to
List,
I fully appreciate the Lydia House Task Force's efforts. I believe that
they have brought forward an important issue for the city to address.
And every time one of the Task force members post these lists of
"supportive housing facilitates" I am sure I sound like a broken record:
This is i
Victoria,
Where is the outrage?
Well, it was on the first Tuesday of November last year. Perhaps you
remember it. It was when the incumbent Mayor, City Council President and
Majority leader were all replaced.
Now the focused of the outrage is on recovering from the years of
mismanagement.
List,
I work a lot on campaigns. I am not a hack -- I pick and choose based on
who I believe in. Sometimes it is incredible tiring (especially days
before a convention) and then along comes something fantastic that makes
me feel like it is worth it!
This is a fantastic article about the city,
The background:
Many Minneapolis DFL delegates frustrated at their defeats in Statewide
elections give up and accept the premises that the only way to win is to
ignore progressive issues. Too many environmentalist decide to support
someone with no environmental record (Dutcher) or someone with a
All,
While I usually find Barb's post informatative and well thought out. . . .I
think the most recent listing of Section 8 housing and jumping to
conclusions about "catching-up with the rest of us" is rather misleading.
I live on 31st and Pleasant. In the Lyndale Neighborhood, in Ward 10.
Next
Bravo to RT for standing tall and further exposing the misguided attempt by
those who missed the clear message of last election. The DFL and Labor
leadership that is trying to "censure" Democrats for supporting supporting
Ostrow/Goodman's leadership because they dared to put a non-DFL on a
committ
Wow, a mixing of my different lives. Many of you know me as a firebrand
of neighborhood issues. . . . and I have been holding my tongue on the schools
and kids strand, because I didn't necessarily want to mix my personal political
participation on this list with my professional career. . . .
I apologize that I continue to have to write this same email every time
Carol Becker rolls out the tired and disproved assertion that Sandra Colvin
Roy was not an enthusiastic supporter for public funding of the stadium.
Ms. Colvin Roy can change her positions during the campaign to match the
prev
Kevin,
I like your post a lot and general agree with your comments.
Except for one:
"Players tend to return healthy chunk of their millions to the community
through charities and personal contributions, many of which don't get much
attention from the sportswriters who are all too ready to rip t
"The Twins are not a community asset and a Hennepin County district judge
had no authority to order them to play baseball and to require Major League
Baseball send teams here to play the Twins in 2002, a team attorney argued
in a brief filed Thursday with the state Court of Appeals."
So, I am con
Greg,
Let the era where attendence at a meeting is seen as "embracing the agenda"
come to an end. Let Nov.6 be seen as the end of a time where entire groups
of people and slates of interests are disenfranchised. People of different
perspective must come together, speak at each others organizati
Okay all! This just begs for a Mpls issues list response! Any great ideas
for costumes?
SSB: What are you little boy, a bulldozer?
Youth: Yes'm, I am the "Little Hollman Bulldozer" here to take down your
home before we build another. . . .
Augh. . . . . . . . .run away, run away. . . . .
In
List,
I was asked by a supporter of Dan Niziolek's City Council opponent how I can
support Dan on the basis of his experience, but seemingly ignore that as a
criteria in the Mayor's race.
Clearly there are different types of experience. Perhaps I am being
presumptuous but very few people wa
List,
Yesterday I had an opportunity to go with RT to
support the folks that pulled together the Youth Vote rally at First
Avenue. Over 500 youth and young people stopped by, learned about
candidates, discussion issues, danced, partied, and as appropriate registered to
vote. Youth Vote,
Campaign Profile: R.T. Rybak
By Art Hughes
Minnesota Public Radio
October 23, 2001
R.T. Rybak hopes to become the first challenger to unseat an incumbent
Minneapolis mayor since 1977. Backers say the political newcomer has a gift
for energizing people toward his causes. Critics, however, say Ryba
Congradulations to Dan Niziolek!
Dan is against public funding of the stadium, huge
coorporate welfare subsidies and a development agenda dominiated by big-box
downtown retail. Despite the obvious policy differences with the Star
Tribune, Dan received their endorsement for
his City Counc
Wow. I just read the Mayor's irresponsible,
bitter and over-the-top reaction to the Police endorsement of R.T.
Frankly, I think it is meant to distract from the
real story:
None of the four big unions that actually work for
the City (and have to deal with the Mayor) are endorsing her r
Michael,
My first inclunation is to say that NRP and the School are funded through
different mechanism and different pots of money. But recongnizing that it
all eminiates from the same source -- taxes, I, perhaps foolishly,
considered your arguement that there is a choice between NRP and MPS. W
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All,
Are there any Raptors which could keep the squirrels from munching my bulbs?
Houw could we incentives them to, you know, increase their take?
Joseph Barisonzi
Lyndale, Ward 10
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All,
Frankly I was initatially stunned to see the mayor
take the lead on cynically using the September 11 terrorist attack to rebuild
political support for her mayoral campaign.
After I got over being stunned, I was dissapointed
but not suprised.
This election is about leadership. Wh
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Joseph Barisonzi
Minneapolis
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List,
I empathize with Ms. Becker's frustration and anger about the second
stunni
All,
I found Mr. Knapp's observations about the 10th ward race interesting and
provocative. I do not write to quibbling about some questionable
demographic numbers. One of his core points that his nearly three year
residency in Minneapolis and lack of involvement in the grassroots
democratic inf
Gene et all,
I think Dan's post is pretty clear that he is running for the council to be
part of a change in city leadership. Since the day Dan showed up at the
neighborhood to become an active volunteer 10 years ago, he has been
critical of the priorities of the current City leadership. Since
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