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by amiller92
November 2nd, 2021, 9:14 am
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board
Replies: 167
Views: 55811

Re: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board

You've got it all backwards. On the wedgelive podcast, Sheila talked about having hot food and bathrooms for protesters. If the cops kill someone, a mayor who gets out on the streets and says "man this shit sucks doesn't it?" and provides actual resources is far more likely to deflate ten...
by amiller92
November 1st, 2021, 9:59 am
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board
Replies: 167
Views: 55811

Re: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board

I think of January 6th and how a few thousand Trumpers were nearly able to topple the democratic process because the police were wholly ineffective. This is an interesting example, because what the capital police had to do on that day (and what they typically do), is much more a security function t...
by amiller92
October 14th, 2021, 9:50 am
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board
Replies: 167
Views: 55811

Re: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board

Lisa Bender is the most powerful person in the city as Council President. I don't live in her Ward...I can't vote her out if she were running for re-election. Seems like our current system is quite undemocratic. The Charter Commission is the Judicial Branch of the Government and is doing it's prope...
by amiller92
September 28th, 2021, 1:26 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Target Center Renovation
Replies: 548
Views: 129322

Re: Target Center Renovation

It should got at: 501 Royalston Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55405 There will be a new LRT station there, it's near the Target Field Station, the C line and there is space nearby for the new owners to help finance some nice things like housing w/affordable units and a new Farmers Market and some sort of pa...
by amiller92
September 23rd, 2021, 9:44 am
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Midtown / Phillips Community - General Topics
Replies: 15
Views: 16816

Re: Phillips-East Phillips-Ventura Village General Topics

Franklin Street Bakery has been sold to/merged with Michigan Bread Co . Both locations will be rebranding as The Good Bread Co., ending our long perplexing nightmare of having a business called "Franklin Street" located on Franklin Avenue. Hoo boy does "Franklin" not look like a...
by amiller92
September 19th, 2021, 11:21 am
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board
Replies: 167
Views: 55811

Re: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board

Abolitionists may well argue that, but so what? They need a majority of the city council to agree with them. Even if a court decides that the council needs to explicitly find the police necessary, they will.
by amiller92
September 19th, 2021, 6:16 am
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board
Replies: 167
Views: 55811

Re: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board

I’m undecided, and it’s going to be a game time decision, likely. Honest question, though, why is the ‘if necessary’ language about having police officers in the amendment at all? Especially if, as literally every supporter tries to assure me, there definitively WILL be police officers? I mean, it ...
by amiller92
September 19th, 2021, 5:51 am
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board
Replies: 167
Views: 55811

Re: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board

Clearly, you should be making your decision based on the specifics of the policy being proposed. Oh wait, strike that.
Advertising your willful ignorance is... a look.
by amiller92
September 17th, 2021, 1:17 pm
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board
Replies: 167
Views: 55811

Re: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board

You really should not make decisions on the charter based on the current occupants of certain offices, some of whom may well be gone before any meaningful change happens.
by amiller92
September 10th, 2021, 9:54 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1388
Views: 603966

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects

Bulldoze the Nokomis Knoll Historic District. I just don't get that place.
I did not know that existed. That's ridiculous.
by amiller92
September 10th, 2021, 9:50 am
Forum: Local Politics and Governance
Topic: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board
Replies: 167
Views: 55811

Re: Minneapolis 2021 Elections - Mayor, City Council, BET, Park Board

What are you really confused about on the ballot question? We've had a tremendously effect "flood the zone with lies" strategy from the anti-side that people pretend like there's something confusing about what is really quite straight-forward. Do you honestly foresee a mayor and council ma...
by amiller92
September 10th, 2021, 9:44 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
Replies: 2027
Views: 783421

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

Prediction: in 20 years we will look back on the dramatic work from home shift that occurred in 2020-2022 as being largely a white privilege movement that had huge negative impacts on marginalized urban communities of color.
I think we can already say that.
by amiller92
September 8th, 2021, 11:34 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1388
Views: 603966

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects

Closing the causeway is absolutely the solution, but that doesn't mean it will happen.
by amiller92
September 7th, 2021, 9:26 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1388
Views: 603966

Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects

Could move the houses displaced by widening Crosstown to the vacant Cedar land. As I never use Cedar north of Crosstown. I don't have an opinion on the matter, but what would the residents and businesses think about losing easy access to and from the south? I have several neighbors who would gladly...
by amiller92
August 3rd, 2021, 9:33 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: North Loop Green - Hines - 350 N 5th St(?) - 35 stories - 393'/418'
Replies: 201
Views: 159013

Re: North Loop Green - Hines - 350 N 5th St(?) - 35 stories - 393'/418'

One factor I think thats at play is the on going rebuilds of place burned down in the riots has impacted the construction labor and material market demand. Is there a lot of rebuilding going on? On the south side, it's just the under-construction apartments, Wendy's, AutoZone, Arby's/Raising Cane's...
by amiller92
July 28th, 2021, 8:09 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
Replies: 2027
Views: 783421

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

It really is amazing how some people see the idling police car as threatening, and some see it as reassuring. Is it amazing? It's a major lesson of the last few years. Police presence is both. But I'm 100% with Alex. It shouldn't be a on the sidewalk and it shouldn't be idling. Seems like exactly w...
by amiller92
July 8th, 2021, 2:44 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: George Floyd murder and aftermath
Replies: 175
Views: 75809

Re: George Floyd murder and aftermath

In the past year, one of the things that I have become most certain of is that a lot of the practices that are engrained in policing are not effective. High speed chases seem to be firmly in this category. Worse, we don't even have a common understanding of what effective means or a common mental m...
by amiller92
July 8th, 2021, 2:13 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: George Floyd murder and aftermath
Replies: 175
Views: 75809

Re: George Floyd murder and aftermath

It's pretty reasonable to expect a carjacker to cause imminent harm to other people in the near future. Imminently? Like, they've stolen a car and now it's reasonable to believe they will do what next? The most dangerous scenarios for imminent harm that I can think of involve fleeing in a high spee...
by amiller92
July 7th, 2021, 8:02 am
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Uptown - LynLake - The Wedge - News & General
Replies: 1498
Views: 582420

Re: Uptown-LynLake-Wedge - News & General Topics

Whatever the opinions on the art fair...again with the continued want to deny that there are actually problems with public safety. Well, there are. It isn't "perceived". There was a movement to boycott the art fair and there would certainly have been protest. Is that "public safety&q...
by amiller92
July 1st, 2021, 1:49 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Uptown - LynLake - The Wedge - News & General
Replies: 1498
Views: 582420

Re: Uptown-LynLake-Wedge - News & General Topics

One side effect of the city's drive thru ban is that makes locations with existing ones extremely ultra-valuable
I am not sure that is true. The franchise agreement certainly have restrictions on how close a new franchise can be, which is likely more protection than the drive thru ban.