[Mpls] Values?

2005-10-12 Thread Steve Cross
HELPFUL FRIENDLY COURTEOUS KIND OBEDIENT CHEERFUL THRIFTY BRAVE CLEAN REVERENT Don't thank me. Thank the Boy Scouts of America. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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

[Mpls] Park Board Ancient History Request

2005-10-03 Thread Steve Cross
and the reason was corruption in city government that make any current accusations look like child's play. So its separateness was intended to try to remove it from city government corruption in the now distant past. Would someone who knows for sure provide an explanation? Steve Cross Prospect

[Mpls] Why FBI Investigation Into City Corruption

2005-09-12 Thread Steve Cross
the feds have bigger fish to fry elsewhere. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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

[Mpls] Mayor's Race: assured outcome?

2005-08-28 Thread Steve Cross
combining IRV elections with strong party discipline. And anyone who currently supports a third party should recognize that IRV elections is really just a ruse to artificially recapture your vote for one of the two major parties. IRV elections is a bad idea. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1

[Mpls] Prospect Park Adopts its NRP-2 Action Plan

2005-07-04 Thread Steve Cross
by the neighborhood last October and which has been meeting multiple times for each month since then to reach its recommendations. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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

[Mpls] The Job of Minneapolis School Superintendent

2005-06-15 Thread Steve Cross
because there are still people who think that they can perform miracles despite the fact that the operational rules prevent any miracles from occurring. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member

[Mpls] Taking the Recreation out of Minneapolis Park Recreation Board

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Cross
then and it's still not relevant now. So, please, lets keep the debate on the issue of whether a public/private deal is sufficiently in the public interest and forget the religious overtones. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e

[Mpls] MPPA and Nye's

2005-05-19 Thread Steve Cross
to be. But, the question still is, how frequent do such incidents have to be before the gun law is determined to be a dumb policy for Minneapolis or anywhere else? Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation

[Mpls] Reducing the number of delegates.

2005-05-18 Thread Steve Cross
. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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 the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state

[Mpls] Call Pawlenty re: conceal-carry and Nye's

2005-05-18 Thread Steve Cross
ban handguns -- period. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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 the troll! Ignore obvious

[Mpls] Reducing the number of delegates.

2005-05-17 Thread Steve Cross
to consider the problems with democracy that republicanism is intended to cure. After all, republicanism is the foundation principle of our entire government and NOT democracy. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you

[Mpls] Minneapolis DFL Convention Turnout

2005-05-16 Thread Steve Cross
for where it can be held -- and that is important when getting the money to pay for the hall is a serious question. A smaller convention may be heresy for the DFL. However, I think that the DFL might want to consider the virtues of republicanism (again, small r) over democracy (again, small d). Steve

[Mpls] Jim, Lori Strudevant, the Strib Editorial Board and the Hennepin Co Board want to ignore MSA 297A.99

2005-05-09 Thread Steve Cross
the law and be right and wrong at the same time. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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

[Mpls] Twins Stadium

2005-04-25 Thread Steve Cross
to vastly increase the number of luxury boxes. If the total seating is less and the luxury boxes is about the same, then WHY is any new stadium even a good idea for the Twins? Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think

[Mpls] Twins Stadium

2005-04-25 Thread Steve Cross
for a stadium when we're short of revenue for things like education. But I doubt that we're going to get a choice of whether to spend taxes on a stadium OR on education. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think

[Mpls] Stormwatergate

2005-04-22 Thread Steve Cross
a benefit from stormwater billing precisely because there are two owners to be shared the billing for the runoff on one property. Logically, it would seem that each owner should pay half of what the billing would be if the property were a single-family home. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS

[Mpls] Stormwatergate

2005-04-15 Thread Steve Cross
to be able to gather enough information to make the charges really match each property. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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

[Mpls] 'Citizen Participation' still a myth; 'Activist Participation' not...

2005-04-07 Thread Steve Cross
. Steve Cross Prospect Park (Who happened to be the PPERRIA president for a couple of the years and went through the audits by the State Aduditor.) 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

[Mpls] New Star Tribune Conservative Columnist

2005-03-23 Thread Steve Cross
them. I can't imagine what the editors might have been thinking to give her a regular ink. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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

[Mpls] Nicollet Island -- Some More Facts

2005-03-22 Thread Steve Cross
there is good reason to do so. Steve Cross Much as the list moderator has already said, I think that people are letting their emotions get the better of them on this issue. And, at least part of that is that some people, Mr. Clegg definitely excepted, seem willing to let their emotions cloud

[Mpls] Strib Takes the Low Road -- Get ALL the Facts Out

2005-03-21 Thread Steve Cross
is in doubt. It can't be claimed until the motion for reconsideration is acted on. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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

[Mpls] Proportional Elections -- Yes!

2005-03-17 Thread Steve Cross
radical than even yours are.) Steve Cross Prospect Park 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 the troll! Ignore

[Mpls] Proportional Elections -- Yes!

2005-03-17 Thread Steve Cross
is going to count (even though it may never be your 1st place vote). But, the appeal of PV is stronger because you can argue that Your vote always counts and there are no 'ifs,' 'ands,' or 'buts' at all. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e

[Mpls] IRV for Ward 2, Minneapolis, or Anywhere -- NO

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Cross
a lot less difficulty choosing between two alternatives. In expecting people to rank their choices, I think that you are defying both those who like just their candidate and no one else and human nature that apparently has difficulties with menus. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1

[Mpls] IRV for Ward 2, Minneapolis, or Anywhere -- NO

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Cross
proposals. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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 the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait

[Mpls] IRV for Ward 2, Minneapolis, or Anywhere -- NO

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Cross
and suggest other people do so too. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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 the troll! Ignore

[Mpls] Part 2. The violins continue to sob but play on thewrongpage

2005-03-13 Thread Steve Cross
populated by students. While the safety sweep was completed on a hurry-up basis, all those properties are now back to the regular inspection schedule -- but they will be inspected again. Now, is that apology forthcoming? Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES

[Mpls] Part 2. The violins continue to sob but play on the wrongpage

2005-03-12 Thread Steve Cross
that there is a right to violate the fire-safety laws for reasons of economy are but a small fringe of student opinion. Unfortunately, some of that fringe are expressing their opinions here. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you

[Mpls] The long sobs of the violins (of the DFL machine particularly in PP)

2005-03-10 Thread Steve Cross
that there was anything else going on in conducting the safety sweeps other than concern for the safety of the students is sadly mistaken. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation

[Mpls] IRV will help ensure endorsement

2005-03-10 Thread Steve Cross
to cover. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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 the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait

[Mpls] Ward 2 Rules Committee meeting

2005-03-09 Thread Steve Cross
Monica J. Weber said: I truly believe in an inclusive party, and that includes giving power to those who have been previously disenfranchised. Who are the disenfranchised and what do they already have on their calendars for the afternoon of April 9th? Steve Cross Prospect Park (6th of the 2nd

[Mpls] IRV will help ensure endorsement

2005-03-09 Thread Steve Cross
on their calendars for the afternoon of Saturday, April 9th. Steve Cross Prospect Park (And 6th of the 2nd) 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

[Mpls] Rules May Prevent Endorsement in 2nd Ward DFL Convention

2005-03-08 Thread Steve Cross
Miller's instructed Rules Committee members prevail. However, even if they do, there is still the matter of how their support of rules clearly designed to make the whole convention a fruitless exercise will sit with all the Ward's delegates. Steve Cross Prospect Park (Rules Committee, Precinct 6

[Mpls] Rules for Endorsement at Ward 2 DFL Convention

2005-03-08 Thread Steve Cross
that standard? Steve Cross Prospect Park (Who supports Bill Svrluga but who wrote this, and my prior message, on my own and not as a shill for anyone.) 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

[Mpls] Automobile Insurance Reform

2005-03-03 Thread Steve Cross
you drive and not who you are or where you live. (As, for example, by being charged a higher rate because you live in a bad area of Minneapolis.) Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member

[Mpls] Caucuses

2005-03-02 Thread Steve Cross
Michael Atherton said: what are the objections to letting all party members select nominees through a general election as California does? Actually, we do exactly that. It's called a Primary Election and it occurs in September. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read

[Mpls] Caucuses

2005-03-02 Thread Steve Cross
. The parties, all of them, wind up as a lobbying influence rather than a control on them. I'm in favor of moving the affect of parties a little more off just being a big lobby toward exerting more control. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http

[Mpls] Wireless Minneapolis

2005-02-26 Thread Steve Cross
of a small Indiana town without adequate service to provide it, and the efforts by the big communications companies to kill it before they can take it over. You can also read about it on the NOW website at: http://www.pbs.org/now/ Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read

[Mpls] Ward 2 and Mayoral Candidates forum last night

2005-02-24 Thread Steve Cross
a supporter of Bill Svrluga for City Council. I make that disclosure to note again that Cutting is a supporter of Cara Letofsky. And that goes a long way to explain his comments (as well as mine). Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e

[Mpls] Ward 2 and Mayoral Candidates forum last night

2005-02-23 Thread Steve Cross
. If that is not enough, if you want someone free of any possible connection that may appear to conflict on a particular vote, then I think that you are stuck with looking for that candidate who just landed from Mars. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http

[Mpls] Last Night's Ward 2 Candidates' Forum

2005-02-23 Thread Steve Cross
of Minneapolis. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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 the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait

[Mpls] Mayoral and Ward 2 Candidates Neighborhood Meeing TONIGHT

2005-02-22 Thread Steve Cross
on March 1, 2005. This event is sponsored as a neighborhood service by PPERRIA. However, PPERRIA does not endorse any candidate or party. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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

[Mpls] Candidates' Night In Prospect Park

2005-02-18 Thread Steve Cross
Mark your calendars: Candidates Night for the Prospect Park East River Road Neighborhood on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at St. Frances Cabrini Church Hall. While it's intended for the neighborhood, anyone may attend. The following candidates have confirmed that they will

[Mpls] Doug Grow's Mythology

2005-02-17 Thread Steve Cross
education any more than that of blacks and non-slave minorities who came here at the same time. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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

[Mpls] The Advanced Physics of Money

2005-02-16 Thread Steve Cross
Scientists say that physics operated differently for about the first second of the Big Bang. The heat and pressure were so extreme that everything operated differently than it has ever since. It's long been my theory about money in huge quantities. That is, when money is win quantities of

[Mpls] The Advanced Physics of Money and TIF

2005-02-16 Thread Steve Cross
investment on the front end. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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 the troll! Ignore obvious

[Mpls] Doug Grow's Mythology

2005-02-15 Thread Steve Cross
to pay for just heating buildings in the middle of winter. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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

[Mpls] Doug Grow's Mythology

2005-02-15 Thread Steve Cross
if they included some proposals on how to augment a generalized feeling in our society that personal economic justice was not going to be frustrated by the inherent ways that our society works. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules

[Mpls] Library Wing Thing

2005-02-06 Thread Steve Cross
*WizardMarks said:* Themore grandiose technocrats are declaring that books will become a thingof the past and libraries will switch to CDs and DVDs for all print. I recall a statement by Microsoft's Bill Gates sometime a long time ago. It was something to the effect that, Books are extremely

[Mpls] Downtown Library Design

2005-02-05 Thread Steve Cross
that the new library is destined to become a building that is so ugly that it will be loved just because it is so ugly. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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

[Mpls] NRP - Accounting

2005-01-26 Thread Steve Cross
Michael Atherton said: If we assume 70 neighborhoods spent NRP dollars over ten years and did so in a way that keep them just under the $50,000 threshold for a full audit But... He misses the point that the audits done when less that $50,000 was spent in one year are NOT a euphemism for no

[Mpls] Proposed legislation affecting Minneapolis

2005-01-24 Thread Steve Cross
because the bill ultimately stalls somewhere just means that it may reappear in an appropriation or mini-garbage bill sometime later. And that's because that one legislator knows not to give up just because of one stall.) So, watch committee agendas and not introductions. Steve Cross Prospect Park

[Mpls] NRP - Accounting

2005-01-24 Thread Steve Cross
less work for our treasurer and finance vice-chair as the full audit. So don't minimize the limited audit.) I believe that copies of all PPERRIA audits are available for examination by anyone with the official corporate records at Pratt School. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil

[Mpls] Turbocharged Truth-in-Taxation: NO!

2005-01-19 Thread Steve Cross
whole society. Steve Cross Prospect Park 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 the troll! Ignore obvious flame

[Mpls] Fundraising Idea for Minneapolis Pensions: Spanking Fannie

2005-01-16 Thread Steve Cross
. There's lots of other messages with good material to talk about. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state

[Mpls] Government

2005-01-10 Thread Steve Cross
to recognize the benefits she has and who maintains those benefits against those who would take them away. I only hope that she does not live to see how wrong she is in whom she places her faith. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager

[Mpls] KBEM

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Cross
station at 88.5 and the FCC limits the power of both to make sure that there is no interference. Obviously, lower-power licenses are worth less because the potential audience is lower just because of the physics of radio-signal power. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated

[Mpls] RE: Should the Mpls Schools be operating a radiostation?

2005-01-02 Thread Steve Cross
from America -- even if it's played by their local musicians. I don't think that is a bad lesson for the students at North High. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't

[Mpls] Bust the bank failure in Minneapolis (today's Strib)

2005-01-01 Thread Steve Cross
REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see:

[Mpls] Bust the bank failure in Minneapolis (today's Strib)

2005-01-01 Thread Steve Cross
in the future. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html

[Mpls] Cruel and unusual punishment: Banished to Minneapolis!

2004-12-17 Thread Steve Cross
Victoria Heller said: I think that the Finance Department should be reminded that a lot of guys are sitting in prison for producing similar financial data. We understand that you feel that government can't do anything right, but this gross insult is too much. Because you don't agree with them

[Mpls] PPERRIA Votes to Continue Excluding Students

2004-11-24 Thread Steve Cross
. PPERRIA (and several other neighborhoods with restrictive memberships) has not been part of the Neighborhood Participation Program for many years. NRP fiscal agents do not have to be participants in the Neighborhood Participation Program. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think

[Mpls] Re: PPERRIA Votes to Continue Excluding Students

2004-11-24 Thread Steve Cross
a super-majority of the membership. Hopefully, someday that will change. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state

[Mpls] School Closings

2004-10-16 Thread Steve Cross
the Mau-Mauing by the parents and the kids in the schools? Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national

[Mpls] Minneapolis School Closings

2004-10-13 Thread Steve Cross
it will save. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html

[Mpls] Prospect Park NRP-2 Kickoff Meeting Tonight

2004-10-13 Thread Steve Cross
. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external

[Mpls] City Unified Housing Policy and NRP Funds

2004-09-29 Thread Steve Cross
(Prospect Park) hasn't seen it. Various contacts with city hall haven't produced a copy either but have produced acknowledgments that the letter does exist. If anyone on this board has a copy of this letter, could you please sent it to me? Or, better yet, post in on this board. Steve Cross Prospect

[Mpls] Kahn's Crime

2004-09-29 Thread Steve Cross
. Steve Cross 612-376-0094 REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html

[Mpls] Citizen Participation -- One Other Issue

2004-09-27 Thread Steve Cross
. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html

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

2004-09-11 Thread Steve Cross
include a project description and statement of cost, must be received at: PPERRIA 66 SE Malcolm Ave Minneapolis, MN 55414 Child-care during the meeting will be available on-site. Translation services will be provided. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules

[Mpls] Pratt School Position Papers

2004-07-26 Thread Steve Cross
the work deserve great credit for the public service they have performed. Some of the people who did the work are listed on the Save Pratt website. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing

[Mpls] Pratt School: Position Paper on Possible Closing

2004-07-25 Thread Steve Cross
. at the Prospect Park United Methodist church, which is at the corner of Orlin and Malcolm Avenues Southeast. Steve Cross Prospect Park -- POSITION PAPER REGARDING PRATT COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER I. Pratt Public School A Good Education for All Kids Pratt

[Mpls] Re: Smoking Ban Public/Private

2004-05-21 Thread Steve Cross
States, in Order to ... promote the general Welfare Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national

[Mpls] Ostrows: we should have closed schools now

2004-03-02 Thread Steve Cross
else are they wrong about? Supposedly, we are going to get the full facts by the end of March. We'll see. The neighborhood and the parents want to participate in this decision and not just have it done to us. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email

[Mpls] Ostrows: we should have closed schools now

2004-03-01 Thread Steve Cross
paying for education when people feel, with good reason, that the facts are being manipulated. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame

[Mpls] In this together

2004-02-25 Thread Steve Cross
the budgetary problems with the schools, the city, the libraries, and the county and then go to the polls in November and VOTE DEMOCRATIC. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2

[Mpls] Atherton on Closing Pratt School

2004-02-16 Thread Steve Cross
of things is distorted by his perpetual wearing of dismal-colored glasses. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state

[Mpls] Lawsuit Against Minneapolis Schools on Closing of Pratt School

2004-02-15 Thread Steve Cross
but, as said, the neighborhood prevailed in both cases. The fact that the cases were pursued and paid for all the way to the Supreme Court should testify that the neighborhood doesn't give up when it starts a lawsuit. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email

[Mpls] Neighborhood Meeting in Prospect Park Sunday on Pratt School Closing

2004-02-14 Thread Steve Cross
on June 23, 2003. The meeting is open to the public. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national

[Mpls] The Pratt School Historic Site

2004-02-14 Thread Steve Cross
. That, and other information will be available at a PPERRIA meeting to consider action on the proposed closure that is being held Sunday night at 7 PM at the Prospect Park United Methodist Church. Steve Cross Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list

[Mpls] Massive school reshuffling proposed

2004-02-10 Thread Steve Cross
Pratt. In any case, money is currently being spent as you read this to remodel Pratt for the new use scheduled for next fall. It will be a waste of money in major proportions if the remodeling work is completed just in time for the start of the demolition of the building. Steve Cross Prospect

[Mpls] Incarceration the answer? -- The Military Is NOT and Answer

2003-08-19 Thread Steve Cross
hope that our judges now regard the sentence to the military as something that only happened in the bad old days. Steve Cross Prospect Park TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject

[Mpls] Library scenarios -- A Finger on the Scales?

2003-06-13 Thread Steve Cross
and/or cut library services when the Pawlenty administration comes around asking for re-election and crowing about coming through with its no new taxes pledge. Steve Cross Prospect Park TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed

[Mpls] Re: Correction: Thank You, Governor. One More Minneapolis Program Bites the Dust

2003-03-18 Thread Steve Cross
. Is Prospect Park really alone in its support of Clean Sweep? Steve Cross Prospect Park TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic

[Mpls] Thank You, Governor. One More Minneapolis Program Bites the Dust

2003-03-16 Thread Steve Cross
and firefighters. But it's a shame that choices like that have to be made at all. This is another example of what you get when no new taxes has been sold by Governor Pawlenty as a universal cure. Steve Cross Prospect Park TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut

[Mpls] Thank You, Governor. One More Minneapolis Program Bites the Dust

2003-03-16 Thread Steve Cross
divided the way it is, then living in the central cities or the burbs will both be harrowing experiences. Steve Cross Prospect Park TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. Minneapolis

[Mpls] Library Budget Cuts -- Walker Community Library to Close

2003-03-08 Thread Steve Cross
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[Mpls] Nerpy $$$$$$ -- Probably more than you want to know.

2003-02-10 Thread Steve Cross
175,000 Nerpy Bucks to go purposes otherwise permitted by law as the same subdivision of the law explicitly allows. So, of these 175,000 Nerpy Bucks, what can we spend it on? Here, I have seen the light because of the brilliant exposition of Mr. Cross, I now agree with Steve Cross since, because

[Mpls] NRP and Spending Beyond Housing; To Be or Not To Be

2003-02-08 Thread Steve Cross
of Prospect Park have found that Pratt, SWIM, and SE Seniors are programs for which it is worth paying that penalty. They are acting as responsible adults in that regard in recognizing the penalty and choosing to pay that penalty because of the importance of the goal. Steve Cross Prospect Park

[Mpls] Prospect Park and NRP Funds Reallocation

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Cross
veryone in our neighborhood who helped with the entire effort. Steve Cross Prospect Park

[Mpls] Density bonuses...a tactical and substantive mistake

2002-11-14 Thread Steve Cross
to affordable housing. But I'm not so sure that this proposal will do right by those good people who need affordable housing. At a minimum, this proposal hasn't been well studied -- at least by those people who might have reservations. Steve Cross Prospect Park

[Mpls] Zoning Changes/Affordable Housing

2002-10-18 Thread Steve Cross
a label of affordable housing because everyone's afraid of being accused of going NIMBY on the whole idea of affordable housing. The Zoning Commission meeting is Monday night. Maybe it will be clearer then. Steve Cross Prospect Park ___ Minneapolis Issues

[Mpls] Big Zoning Changes Coming But May Be Below Everyone's Radar

2002-10-17 Thread Steve Cross
, it's last on their agenda.) From there, it's on to the Planning and Zoning Committee and then the full City Council. In any case, it wouldn't hurt for city-citizen policy wonks to look at it all, make up their own minds, and do whatever they think best. Steve Cross Prospect Park

RE: [Mpls] Michael Atherton: A Brilliant Mind Among The Addlepated

2002-09-05 Thread Steve Cross
that Victoria can speak for herself, as she's entitled to. Steve Cross Prospect Park ___ 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] Re: Atherton's Mature Response to the Star Tribune

2002-09-02 Thread Steve Cross
, Michael's opinion to the contrary not withstanding. Steve Cross Prospect Park ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e

Re: [Mpls] City Reorganization (aka McKinsey)- long one

2002-08-30 Thread Steve Cross
neighborhood's organization. While I have posted it before, I think that it's useful to look at its findings side-by-side with your own. Steve Cross Prospect Park PPERRIA Executive Committee Observations on McKinsey Report The Executive Committee of the Prospect Park

[Mpls] Block E design story

2002-07-31 Thread Steve Cross
want the development regulation to be both fast and correct. The McKinsey Report as well as connecting the dots from Block E are simple answers but they are also wrong. Steve Cross Prospect Park ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E

[Mpls] Strib: Rybak reorganization met

2002-07-26 Thread Steve Cross
doesn't get done on the goals, it will be a shame. Steve Cross Prospect Park ___ 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] Bouillabaisse

2002-07-16 Thread Steve Cross
and the company that supported them deserve all the credit they can be given. But I think that even they would regard the city taking their report as a first step in a longer, but ultimately successful process, as an appropriate use of their work. Steve Cross Prospect Park

[Mpls] kinda quiet of the McKenzie report

2002-07-11 Thread Steve Cross
is that Nut cases drive out everyone else at public functions. Ordinary, good-hearted people just don't have the stamina of any of the standard types assigned to neighborhoods by the cosmic forces. Steve Cross East River Road ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil

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