urbanMSP

Did you not pick up on the fact that I'm barely a Bernie supporter at all? I'm only caucusing for him because I'm so frustrated with the Clintons. But yeah, victim complex and all.

Also if your excuse is just "Elections are dirty" then there's no reason to bother having this conversation. I think political process matters and I find attempts to subvert that process disturbing. The fact that this behavior is not unique in history is irrelevant.

You're correct! The Clintons also did everything possible to force everyone else out of the race. The difference is, with the others, they mostly succeeded.

Clinton's supporters, both among the general population and in the party itself, have done everything within their power to delegitimize Sanders and his supporters It's like there was an election going on or something. I think there's a qualitative difference between attacking Sanders as a poor can...

One thing that astonishes me is that everyone who works for the DFL knows and openly discusses the way the Clintons have essentially attempted to subvert the primary, but are perfectly willing to present this idea as a conspiracy theory in the media, because they're operatives in hock to the same ma...

Concerns aside, I'll be caucusing for Bernie, simply out of frustration with Clinton's attempt to hijack the process Wait, what? Didn't you just get done saying that "process arguments" are "infuriating" and irrelevant, given how the party did after a difficult 2008 primary seas...

Look, I have genuine concerns about Bernie's electability and the substantive depth of his platform, but the Clinton camp's process arguments are infuriating. "Bernie is damaging the party"? No, he's just trying to win the primary, like every presidential election candidate ever. Does anyo...

Minnetonka does NOT participate in the Choice Is Yours program That’s surprising, given the district’s eagerness to open their doors to everyone, and their history of outreach to inner city schools. I’d be curious to know why they weren’t chosen to participate. Minnetonka Public Schools chooses not...

Minneapolis should learn from Minnetonka and do whatever they can to shut out anyone who isn't poor from living in the district. That's the exact opposite of the truth. About a third of Minnetonka students - almost 3,000 kids - are open enrollees who commute from other districts. It’s first-come, f...

Where are those houses? Are they in decent school districts? There is definitely a shortage of affordable housing in the city and metro, but this may not be the best place to put that housing anyway, I agree there. All these houses are in the City of Minneapolis so no they aren't in a good school d...

I think that to vulnerable populations, neighborhood change can be inherently frightening, because any form of instability is frightening when you're sufficiently economically stressed. Slow neighborhood change is for all intents and purposes a constant in major cities. Those slow changes tend to ge...

https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2016/01/if-twin-cities-gentrification-myth-what-s-real-problem [A] new study from the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity released this week seeks to debunk gentrification concerns. According to the data going back 15 years, by nearly any measure gentrification i...

For example: https://www.theitascaproject.com/Minnesota's%20Future%20-%20World%20Class%20Schools%20World%20Class%20Jobs.pdf Further compounding the State’s challenge in attracting high-performing candidates are the limited points of entry into education. In fact, there exists really only one viable ...

I think people here are assuming the Itasca Project is fairly benevolent because the gas tax was the example used by the NY Times, but it's in really education where they've played a much larger and more insidious role. The members of the group collectively have massive influence over ed policy and,...

I'm not well-versed enough in crime statistics to say whether there's a positive, negative, or neutral trend, but any proposed source for such a trend that is essentially political rather than socioeconomic should come under pretty heavy scrutiny.

...but it is NOT a false equivalence in terms of protection under the Constitution to freely assemble, which is precisely the point that was being made and is, of course, at the heart of the legal wrangling over the BLM protest at the mall (and thus very much on-topic, I think). Again, just want to...

One should be very careful when making casual references. Man, obviously he was just giving an extreme example to show why MOA wouldn't want to give all groups an unfettered right to demonstrate. Geez. Anyway, the whole "public space" angle is circumvented entirely if MOA just voluntarily...

Earlier criticism aside, I cannot for the life of me understand why MOA is so terrified of BLM. The protest will obviously occur in some form or another no matter what, give them a reasonable forum to conduct it.

NOC works with a lot of people, but there are some pretty clear differences in the tactics, rhetoric, and leadership of the two organizations.

Okay, just read the Newby editorial, and I want to say that I found it substantive and wholly persuasive. Thanks for the heads-up, that's precisely the kind of thing I wish BLM Minneapolis did more of (as opposed to NOC, which I think often does excellent work).