Minneapolis Park Watch

Where’s my ice? by dutch The manufacturer has already shipped my ice line for this year; I picked up some new tackle to try out, too. My Minneapolis Park Board fishing docks have been pulled. The cats have retreated to their deep holes, the milfoil has started to sink and the muskies, bass and pike are cruising the declining weed line picking off the increasingly desperate sunfish, although they are perfectly willing to take suckers and shiners, too.  And I sure as hell aint going wading to

Please join me in voting YES on the ABC referendum on November 4th. The referendum will appear on your ballot as the following question : " SCHOOL DISTRICT BALLOT QUESTION 2 – ESTABLISHMENT OF ELECTION DISTRICTS FOR SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1. Shall the Board of Special School District No. 1, Minneapolis Public Schools consist of six members elected by district and three members elected at-large for a total of nine members? Board of education members elected on or prior to November 4,

An update to my post on the Minneapolis Park Board and its anti-business attitude.  Counterpoint: Park Board didn’t decide Bohemian Flats deal I want to thank the Star Tribune for Mike Kaszuba’s provocative article “Bridge work at park has its price” (Sept. 13). It’s a story that needed to be told.   However, there is one statement in the article that begs clarification. As a cofounder of Park Watch, I — along with others — have, through the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, made i

If you want to know what a real communist looks like and does with power, you need look no further than the Minneapolis park Board and its President. (emphasis mine) Tom Nordyke, the Park Board’s president, said the board had acquiesced to having the Minnesota Department of Transportation use the property in the “emotionalism of the moment” after the collapse. But the board balked, he said, at simply extending its use to Flatiron, a large, private company that had financial incentives to finis

Nearly 300 arrested in St. Paul at RNC 0 Comments Published by Chris Damitio September 3rd, 2008 in uncategorized Link to full story and video. Anarchists who had threatened to “crash the convention” wreaked havoc Monday in downtown St. Paul as the Republican National Convention opened, shattering windows, throwing rocks, slashing tires and blocking traffic. Their violence on the first day of the convention overshadowed an anti-war march that drew a fraction of the number expected. The

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I am done with summer school. Only ten more classes to go… Less than three days till the big wedding. Excited? You bet. Nervous? Kind of. ... The Minneapolis Park Board has been on fire in recent weeks. Besides denying permits for cyclocross races they have also started to crack down on the rest of the bicycling world. There seems to be some problems with people playing bike polo. In fact, for over twenty years there has been a gang of misfits playing near Nokomis on the grass without ther