Absolutely. And if your answer is some version of "it's a bad process if there is a group of NIMBYs who don't like the outcome" then you're saying you will give entitled NIMBY assholes a veto on any progress the City might try to make.
And when pressed on whether Summit needs to be reconstructed - which it clearly, objectively does - Her gave the dishonest little dodge that "all of our streets need to be fixed."
See the bullshit? "All of our streets need to be fixed... but let's not fix this one."
I am so, so tired of politicians attempting to pretend their opposition to bike infrastructure - especially in a case like this, where the NIMBY opponents are literally some of the wealthiest people with the most expensive homes in town - is some sort of brave stand for "equity." Bullshit, indeed.
The most recent episode of Mill City Hall is up. Jesse, Cam and I discuss the independent Minneapolis Park Board and Board of Estimate and Taxation. Check it out if you care about taxes and parks!
New episode out now! Big changes ahead for the composition of the Park Board, and real substantive policy ideas coming from the BET millcityhall.com/episodes/202...
Flannery volunteers with the Sanctuary Supply Depot, a mutual aid group in Mpls getting basic necessities to our houseless neighbors. Frank is an old friend of Jesse's who has experienced homelessness. Their direct experience helps ground this conversation, making it one of our best so far.
The most recent episode of Mill City Hall explores homelessness and the dehumanizing rhetoric and tactics being used on both the federal and local level, with special guests Flannery Clark and Frank. You can listen here: millcityhall.com/episodes/202...
Some portion of that blood money will be given to politicians to protect their ability to make yet more blood money. Most of those politicians will be Republicans, but not all of them.
They are all complicit. Protecting a system that we know - we have known, for decades - kills children.
While people across the political spectrum rush to cherry-pick the bits of madness scrawled on the shooter's magazines to fit them into a preferred culture war narrative I can't help focusing on the objects themselves.
Fuck the symbols, let's talk about all of those FUCKING BULLETS.
michael baskins' campaign finance report is out, and $1758 has been spent on designer suits and clothing so far. that's 20% of his spending. hope we love mpls feels they got their money's worth with him - they spent $7,649 on ads for his ward 2 run
In the end, Frey tried and failed to exempt tipped workers. Collectively we - the activists, their allies on the Council, and Hodges - beat him. His attempted triangulation failed. We passed a strong local minimum wage that included tipped workers. Not because of Jacob, but in spite of him.
We brought in one of the strongest voices in the country on minimum wages and tipped workers, Saru Jayaraman, to talk about why tip penalties suck. I believe this may have been a formal Council study session? It helped strengthen the resolve of the left side of the Council against the tip penalty.
As momentum built, Betsy eventually got on board. But with one caveat: the policy Minneapolis passed must NOT include a tip penalty. She and those of us trying to pass the strongest possible policy on the Council side understood Jacob's game, and organized to stop him from exempting tipped workers.
He clearly squared this circle by telling the restaurateurs he would ensure that the final policy would not cover tipped workers, like their servers. They call this a "tip credit." Those of us on the left call it a "tip penalty," because it is obviously not a credit to the workers.
