[Mpls] Disappointed with Doug Grow on Spike Moss

[Shawn Lewis]

A victim of funding

I was profoundly disappointed by Doug Grow's 
May 28 column about Spike Moss' relationship 
with The City Inc. As a former City Inc. employee 
and a current nonprofit employee, I take offense 
at the portrayal of Fred Easter's decision as cowardly. 

Most likely, Easter's decision is reflective 
of the current funding climate, where programs 
and employees of nonprofits that aren't clearly 
accountable simply aren't funded. Easter's 
decision, given the inevitable community response, 
was anything but cowardly. 

As Grow acknowledged, Moss is loved and loathed 
in about equal numbers. He is valued by some in 
his community, by the media and by the police chief, 
but scrutiny of the funders of The City Inc. would 
most likely reveal that none value him enough to pay for him. 

It is sad that the community turns on its own in 
these situations when the real villain, if there 
is one, is a much more restrictive and conservative 
funding climate. 

Linnea Anderson, St. Paul.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/563/4801000.html

Posted by Shawn Lewis, Field Neighborhood




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