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Bella Abzug is taking over Maplewood's government!
Filed under: Suburbs
Minnesota's most dysfunctional suburb has not disappointed this election season. The city council primary campaign featured eight candidates vying for four slots on the November ballot. Incumbent Will Rossbach and newcomer John Nephew easily outdistanced their opponents, each garnering support from roughly a third of voters. Rebecca Cave, a member-in-good-standing of the city's current ruling troika, and ally Delray "Rocky" Rokke secured the final two ballot spots. They'll battle it out for two council spots in November.
But the real fun has occurred away from the polls. On September 4, Robert Schmidt, chair of the Maplewood Voters Coalition, filed a complaint with the state's Office of Administrative Hearings charging that Cave violated election laws by distributing misleading campaign materials. Cave's lawn signs stated that she was endorsed by "Maplewood Fire"--even though the fire department doesn't actually endorse individual candidates.
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Posted by Paul Demko at September 25, 2007 1:16 PM | Comments (2)
Maplewood wins first round of legal battle
Filed under: Suburbs
Le is one of at least a dozen top employees who have resigned, been fired, or had their jobs eliminated since a new ruling troika took over the city council last year. (See my CP cover story on the subject for more details.
Le's suit in Ramsey County District Court remains alive. That complaint charges that Maplewood's actions violated labor laws and state whistleblower protections. "That's our strongest case," says Gregg Corwin, Le's attorney. That case is slated for trial in October.
Posted by Paul Demko at August 15, 2007 4:23 PM | Comments (0)
Meth Mom, Meet the Honorable Judge Social Worker
Filed under: Suburbs
Courts aren't the place to problem-solve
Dakota County is soon to open a special court for parents with meth addictions. Unlike most child protection courts, this one would fast-track cases where the grownups need treatment in an effort to shorten the amount of time children spend in foster care. The Pioneer Press reports that a state grant will assist this new "helping court" in placing parents in treatment and ensuring that a judge rides herd on the bureaucracy that sometimes makes this difficult.
It's a laudable effort, but far from the real reform that would truly make the system "child-focused," as all of the court system's mission statements vow.
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Posted by Beth Hawkins at April 13, 2006 4:14 PM | Comments (2)
Whites only in Edina
Filed under: Suburbs
What's particularly striking is that the overwhelming majority of these cleansed municipalities were not in the Jim Crow South, but rather spread across the northern half of the country. "While African Americans never lost the right to vote in the North (although there were gestures in that direction), they did lose the right to live in town after town, county after county," Loewen writes in the introduction.
One of the municipalities singled out for particular attention by Loewen is Edina, Minnesota. He points out that prior to the establishment of Edina just after World War I there were quite a few blacks living in what was then known as Richfield Township. This was largely owing to the fact that there was a Quaker village in the area that openly embraced minorities.
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Posted by Paul Demko at August 31, 2005 3:53 PM | Comments (2)
Bloomington to smokers: No dice
Filed under: Suburbs
But trickle-down effects of ban emerging
Last night, the Bloomington city council voted 6-1 to uphold the first municipal smoking ban in the metro. The vote was somewhat surprising, given the full-court press bar owners have put on the council and the Hennepin County board in recent weeks. More to the point, the vote signaled to bar owners that there likely won't be any relief soon from the significant downturn in business.
The thought that was that Bloomington would be a weathervane for what Hennepin County might do, now that the comissioners recently voted to study the economic impact of the ban. And it's even more unclear whether Minneapolis will reconsider its ban.
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Posted by G.R. Anderson Jr. at August 16, 2005 7:25 PM | Comments (3)
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