{"id":58499,"date":"2016-04-25T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58499"},"modified":"2016-04-22T09:09:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T14:09:04","slug":"strib-and-nomi-accidental-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58499","title":{"rendered":"Strib and NoMi: Accidental Honesty"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Strib\u00a0<\/em>ran on op-ed by a Mickey Cook, of North Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

The whole thing ably reflects the elephant in the Metro DFL’s collective room; the CIty of Minneapolis has, for decades, left North Minneapolis to\u00a0other people\u00a0<\/em>to fix. \u00a0While the City has invested endless money, time and\u00a0care\u00a0<\/em>in the South side, Northeast and Dinkytown, the Northside is the hot potato in a perennial game between the City, the State and the Feds, with everyone going “Not It”.<\/p>\n

It’s a good piece; read the whole thing<\/a>. \u00a0Here’s the pullquote:<\/p>\n

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This community is falling apart, and Minneapolis is investing in an overpriced football stadium downtown and green ways and bike lanes that go largely unused in \u201cNoMi.\u201d The City Council is voting to ban plastic bags, while investors shoehorn complex after complex of \u201caffordable housing\u201d into north Minneapolis neighborhoods. Yet we can\u2019t even maintain the mainstays of a decent retail chain store or a reliable grocery store that isn\u2019t constantly threatening to pull out. We can\u2019t get take-out without getting taken out. We have no peace with all of the boom cars.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mr. (?) Cook has got the problems figured out cold.<\/p>\n

The solution? \u00a0Let’s talk (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

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We can see you, Minneapolis. We can see the lack of attention from the police chief and the mayor, failing to enforce what few laws we do have<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There is no shortage of laws in North Minneapolis, or anywhere else in the state. \u00a0Everything that goes wrong in NoMi breaks some kind of law or another.<\/p>\n

But enforcement?<\/p>\n

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We can see the rats\u2019 nest of bureaucratic yarn tangle. These two officials have wholeheartedly turned their backs on this neighborhood. Their predecessors, as far back as I can remember in my four decades of living in Minnesota, have never summoned enough gusto to get things truly under control.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One wonders what sort of effort, or gusto, it\u00a0would\u00a0<\/em>take – and whether Minneapolis’s Social Justice caste\u00a0(based more in Kenwood and Crocus Hill than in NoMi, and sodden with\u00a0political clout in both city halls and the state capitol) would tolerate it.<\/p>\n

But least of all would the Social Justice caste tolerate the one thing the citizens of North Minneapolis\u00a0could\u00a0<\/em>do that would give them a genuine voice; break their ties with the DFL and vote for an alternative to the failed one-party system that’s gotten them where they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Strib\u00a0ran on op-ed by a Mickey Cook, of North Minneapolis. The whole thing ably reflects the elephant in the Metro DFL’s collective room; the CIty of Minneapolis has, for decades, left North Minneapolis to\u00a0other people\u00a0to fix. \u00a0While the City has invested endless money, time and\u00a0care\u00a0in the South side, Northeast and Dinkytown, the Northside is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58502,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58499\/revisions\/58502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}