[Mpls] 3rd Grade Class

[Russell Raczkowski]

Vicky Heller says:

"It's not nice to bite the hand that feeds you."

Indeed.  That's why when Minneapolis institutes a fee for all surburban resisidents 
entering the city by car to make money,  to attend entertainment events, to shop, or 
to partake of some of the city's illicit pleasures, I expect not a peep out of them.  
People coming into the city to work will get a pass. . . .

We'll use that money to maintain our safer, cleaner, and compassionate home.  You
will be welcome to visit.  We'll be happy to SELL you a brochure outlining the 
amenities that you will find here.

Vicky goes on:

"Rather than more preaching about "safer, cleaner, compassionate", how about
using a pencil, a piece of paper, and some 3rd grade arithmetic.  Let's hear
some HOWS and WHENS instead of just the same old WHATS."

With all due respect, I want my government to use the mathematic principles learned 
in third grade where appropriate, but I'd hope they don't rely on their grade school 
education to run the show.

I have daily frustrations with the city, but I am weary of Ms. Heller's drumbeat of 
anti-urban rhetoric while ciphering.  

Really, Vicky, what's with your obsession?  When you pull your business out of the 
city, you'll be done with us, right?  

Then you can go up to the legislature and try to choke the cities there.  I might be 
there, too, trying to open up North Oaks' "600 acre conservation area (sic) and more 
than 25 miles of walking trails for the exclusive use of home owners in the 
community"  to the use of the general population of the state.

It'd play hell with your property values, but I think the good folk of North Oaks would 
find their lives enriched by contact with their urban and rural neighbors.   

Russell Raczkowski
Bancroft