Mid-term Sampler

"Cyli" wrote in message
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Seeing that I live in that area, I'd say that in Minneapolis, as to
what shows up in the newspaper, it's predicated on what the pols think
will gain votes, what they think the graft will be, and what the chief
of police puts his foot down on. St. Paul is more quiet and hidden,
so not much makes the papers. The council and upper levels of
bureaucracy are at least as corrupt, but they've mostly been there
long enough to keep it all under the rug.

There a book entitled "Clearing the Way." It's not a fun read, but it ia
very informative. It's a case study about the 1992 lawsuit filed against
Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, HUD, the Met Council and several other
defendants. Mostly it's about deconcentrating concentrated areas of
impoverished citizens, the demolishion of there homes and their subsequent
involuntary relocation.

I laughed, I cried, I puked.

Don't trust much in the way of stats and figures and public statements
from either city, even though you'll have to use them for your paper.

Thankfully, this stuff is all qualitative in nature! No math or stats at
all.

Op

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On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:46:55 -0500, "Opus"
wrote:



There a book entitled "Clearing the Way." It's not a fun read, but it ia
very informative. It's a case study about the 1992 lawsuit filed against
Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, HUD, the Met Council and several other
defendants. Mostly it's about deconcentrating concentrated areas of
impoverished citizens, the demolishion of there homes and their subsequent
involuntary relocation.

I laughed, I cried, I puked.


Yep. I saw some of that when I used to take the bus to work. Older
apartment buildings razed and then everything left to look like a big
hole for a couple of years. By the time I stopped taking the bus,
they were putting in yet another large block building frightfully
lacking in personality. And probably utility.

Hmm. Did you get into any of the fuss about Block E? That was a
disgusting exercise of power. And it's turning useless on them. I
smirk. I liked Block E, scuzzy though it was.

St. Paul did that when it got I-94 through town. Cut right into the
heart of the black neighborhood (not necessarily the impoverished
part), dividing it in two and leaving only a few overpasses. Also
totally removed a couple of square miles of older low rent buildings
that spoiled the view between downtown and the capitol building while
they were at it. I don't know whether it was the St. Palliates or the
legislature that did the latter.

Though, just to prove they weren't colour prejudiced entirely, 10 or
15 years later they later did the same to a blue collar white
neighborhood for another freeway. They lost big time on that one and
it's never really become a freeway, but it has remained a thorn in the
midst of a neighborhood. It's now a 'parkway', with a freeway amount
of automobile traffic, but no trucks. Badly built, too,
intentionally, so that trucks using it would destroy it. By now
automobile use is doing a pretty good destruction job, so when they
rebuild it, it may become a real freeway.
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