{"id":88548,"date":"2024-10-21T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88548"},"modified":"2024-10-21T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T14:49:54","slug":"we-own-this-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88548","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Own This City&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For a while, after winning complete lopsided electoral sweeps in Minneapolis or Saint Paul, the DFL victory parties would break out into chanting the line in the title.<\/p>\n<p>Ownership has its privileges, as they way &#8211; but local DFLers sure seem to be squiggling away from any responsibility for that ownership.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It was a town hall meeting to talk about the mess that is the Hamline Midway Neighborhood. The question was what is the city doing with Snelling University. The corner is so trashy, there is litter everywhere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our council member for the area, Mitra Jalali, proposes that the priority is trees and bicycle lanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She says it&#8217;s either that or a place for people to park their cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, I suppose if we eventually get rid of all of the residents and businesses in the area, then no people will be there, thereby eliminating litter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, I have to believe, looking towards the thriving areas of St Louis Park&#8217;s West End or the shopping area in Eagan that Jalali is probably prioritizing the wrong thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of Melo&#8217;s reporting of quotes on X from that meeting are pretty entertaining as the elected people try to dodge any responsibility for where we are today in St Paul.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/FrederickMelo\/status\/1847060735181902197\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This tweet is one from a rather large thread on the meeting. Worth a read.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thats right,  Councilwoman Jalali &#8211; it&#8217;s the design of the streets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m adding emphasis to this next bit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Worth looking at- <strong>Sandy Pappas saying she actually rides Green Line (but was getting a ride home from husband after the meeting).<\/strong> Leigh Finke saying that millions of dollars were given to DNR for trees and &#8220;they spent it in outstate which didn&#8217;t need it&#8221; so this year, gave &#8220;even more money&#8221; to Met Council &#8220;who has to spend it in the metro area.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yup, our problems are not enough trees &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Until the city gets serious about crime, drug-dealing, vagrancy and vandalism &#8211; all of which are epidemic at Snelling and University &#8211; the new trees would just serve as canvasas for taggers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sort of like that freaking Loon at the southwest corner of the intersection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More on that later this week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, after winning complete lopsided electoral sweeps in Minneapolis or Saint Paul, the DFL victory parties would break out into chanting the line in the title. Ownership has its privileges, as they way &#8211; but local DFLers sure seem to be squiggling away from any responsibility for that ownership. A friend of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88548","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=88548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88551,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88548\/revisions\/88551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}