A member of the Saint Paul Planning Commission, Bill Lindeke, Ph.D. is an urban geographer who focuses on how environments shape lives. Speaking of white privilege, telling us with his doctorate degree how to live. And Bill Lindeke taught at the University of Minnesota and Metro State University, trying to shape a future.
Those planning commissions are who decide what gets built. Those planning commissions establish zoning changes and, in his own words, “offer relief to people who own a whole category of historic properties that have been marginalized by city’s 20th-century codes. Most descriptions of the Minneapolis 2040 reforms focus on how new rules might catalyze new buildings in the single-family zoned neighborhoods.”
When it comes to building codes, Bill Lindeke, Ph.D. believes, the codes in the beginning “were usually justified on the basis of keeping industry away from residential neighborhoods, in reality they were often used to inscribe upper-middle-class housing tastes into the legal framework of cities.” But now, he is so much smarter than those who established the codes, writing about what building codes are meant to do in the first place, “with each wave of more restrictive zoning placed on the neighborhood.”
Those planning commissioners are who write comprehensive plans for the future calling for the elimination of street parking requirements. Those planning commissions are the ones who created bike lanes, removing driving lanes in the city where I live. And the Saint Paul Planning Commission, a 21-member advisory body appointed by the mayor and approved by the City Council, is not elected by voters. And if these were matters of a church, in the way of the physics of spiritual matter, speaking of clericalism, there is the connection to the mayor.
Like Bill Lindeke, Ph.D. an ‘urban’ geographer with an undergraduate degree in English and philosophy from a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts who moved to Minnesota to teach at the University of Minnesota and tell us how to live, the residents here were just ignorant? As if these were matters of geography for this advisory body.
From where you come? When did a planning commissioner become so interested in an how environment shapes lives? At Williams College, with a $2.5 billion endowment for a student body numbering 2099 in 2014, with an acceptance rate of 17.6 percent, 90.6% of students are in the age 18 to 21 bracket, compared to the national average of 60%; where 85 percent of the faculty is white. So Bill Lindeke, Ph.D. the urban geographer, elected to absorb the wisdom of Williams College, before setting out for out west, to save if not the world, our urban geography.
Then there are the young mayors of both Minneapolis and Saint Paul, with their planning commissions.
Nothing but the Truth! Did you ever wonder what happened in the age before electronic records and electronic media, what of Doctor-patient privilege? And when a hospital sacrifices the doctor-patient privilege, are they liable for putting the family at home at risk? Like in the Third Reich, as a Culture comes to accepts the various forms of fascism?
Do no harm!
So if your father had been a cop, if you knew of all the unfairness in a system, you just wanted to oversee the entire police force. The mayor of Saint Paul, the son of a cop, on the good side of the river, reading the morning paper.
As Saturday night turned into Sunday, at 1:17 a.m., police located two males with gunshot wounds after hearing gunshots in the area of 2nd Avenue N. and 3rd Street N. Both men both in their 20s were transported to Hennepin County Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening. Police responded to the county hospital to obtain evidence and get preliminary statements. Said John Elder, spokesperson.for the police, “There was one sole shooter who shot these two individuals.”
At around 3:21 a.m. Sunday, a man in his 30s with grave injuries died at the scene following a shooting. When police arrived, they ‘located’ him, since he was not moving.
With one dead and four injured after three separate shooting, a Police Department press release indicated that the scene was “highly charged” when police arrived. Thirteen squads responded this scene to manage the scene. Spokesman John Elder said that a man in his 20s left the scene before police arrived. The man had transported himself to North Memorial hospital, which reported the case to police. At around 4:17 a.m. Saturday, North Memorial Hospital staff notified Minneapolis police that a gunshot victims had arrived at their hospital. His injuries were not life-threatening, the hospital reported, for the good of the greater community, which means the White establishment. According to the Press, according to police, these shootings are not connected, though the reporting might cast some doubts on that conclusion.
According to police spokesman, ‘the victim’ stated that while driving he was shot possibly in the area of N. 33rd Avenue and Irving Avenue North. “Ambiguity” of his information led to multiple squads being called to take the report, look for a scene, look for other potential victims, and check for evidence.if in fact there were third parties involved in a shooting,” or a fourth party or fifth? So thirteen squad cars were there.
“When we have two critical incidents going on in the city at the same time, it taxes the resources of the Minneapolis Police Department. The resources, even for a major city police department, were stretched,” said Police Spokesman Elder, who already said thirteen squads responded this scene to manage the scene. “We are right now trying to ascertain if in fact they were shooting at each other, or if in fact there was a third” or fourth or fifth….. The press release states, since reporters were home sleeping, “preliminary investigation leads us to believe that this confrontation between two people, known to each other, escalated into a shooting,” said Elder, forgetting to mention ‘the victim.’
“To have five people shot in three hours is absolutely abnormal, it is not unheard of either. And we need to staff for what can be happening,” said spokesman Elder after his police chief publicly requested last week more funds for more police. Police Chief Maderia Arradondo told the City Council that he needed on the streets 1,000 officer by 2025.
No arrests have been made in connection with any of the three incidents. It is noted that the ‘victims’ did not have a spokesman who the Press contacted. None of the people involved did. And there is a lot of mistrust of the Press, the police and the politics in North Minneapolis, and of the building codes. And the mayors of the Twin Cities would rather put in place bike lanes, remove driving lanes, and possibly be happy no one wants to police the borders of the cities often used to inscribe upper-middle-class housing tastes into a legal framework.
Yeah, Bill Lindeke, Ph.D. “usually justified.”
POST SCRIPT: Swimswam.com has reported that Max McHugh, one of the NCAA’s top breaststrokers along with Gophers swimmer Nick Saulnier at North 2nd Avenue and North 3rd Street sustained “non-life-threatening injuries and are expected to recover.” Thirteen squad cars from Minneapolis police were sent to the scene after patrol officers heard gunshots.
McHugh’s father, Mike McHugh, confirmed via e-mail to the Startribune, that one of the injured is freshman Max McHugh. Neither The University of Minnesota nor Minneapolis Police have confirmed the swimmers’ identities … of men in their twenties? Mike McHugh wrote. “We are so disappointed by the sensationalism and inaccuracy. The official police report is out, no altercation, just a horrific random drive-by shooting.” His son finished at the NCAA championships this March second in the 200-yard breaststroke and third in the 100 breaststroke. Citing a source, Swimswam.com reported “a bullet penetrated the inside of McHugh’s right leg just above the knee Saturday morning in downtown Minneapolis; his father confirmed this as well. Saulnier suffered a bullet “in the elbow.”
Larry Jacobs writes: “When I talk to people in greater Minnesota, most report that it’s city/country economic disparities, rather than shared concerns, that dominate their thinking.
And they warn that Minneapolis’s spotlighting of racial identity and the rooting out of “white privilege” dangle like “low-hanging fruit” for Republican campaigns in rural districts.
Let’s start with the economics.
‘We’re getting shafted,’ reported a county commissioner from greater Minnesota. ‘Jobs are not here for long, but we still have to pay taxes while prices and taxes keep rising”.”
This visceral sense of being “shafted” reveals itself in this mortifying pattern: Minnesota farmers and miners draw food and minerals from the earth, which then enrich processors and retailers in the Twin Cities. Most of the money made from agriculture was reaped in the Twin Cities even though the crops were grown in rural communities.
Meanwhile, a biting second divide emerges from the Minneapolis campaigns against “white privilege” or “privilege” of other kinds.
Here’s a sample: A Minneapolis official accused residents who support retaining green spaces of engaging in “white pastoralism.” Cards announcing “Your homeowner privilege is showing” were distributed last year to owners of single-family homes who questioned the introduction of triplexes into low-density neighborhoods they may have lived in for decades and paid the heavy taxes to do so.
City Council members called for large crowds in 2015 to “speak out against white supremacy and white privilege” in response to a shooting at a police station.
Yeah, those ‘612 values’ don’t connect in other parts of the state, and it’s not clear that Democrats understand that, writes Lawrence R. Jacobs
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Comment by baseball91 — July 28, 2019 @ 10:57 PM |
Do you ever wonder about electronic medical records? Do you wonder by what authority, with HIPPA laws, how a spokesperson for the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center can collaborate with the media? Without consent, she can talk about the generalities of six gunshot victims who arrived at St. Louise Hospital in Gilroy? Do you strongly carry resentment of the vultures of the media seeking to be know-it-alls about tragedy? Do you ever question your culture as Joy Alexiou announces one of four ‘remaining’ patients died, with three in “fair to serious condition.”
Do you fear the great betrayal? Opting out, instead of granting to Google or Facebook their powerful stage with their track records of sending your data to their collaborators, for their own personal profit? And even your hospital, with their spokesman looking so important.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/never-googlers-web-users-take-ultimate-step-guard-…
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Comment by baseball91 — July 29, 2019 @ 2:02 PM |
Fred Medinger writes about the prevailing narrative in America on how women are oppressed, men are dominant, and men are women’s oppressors: “Attacking blacks is racism, attacking women is sexism, but attacking men is consciousness-raising or comedy … or both. While public criticism of women is taboo, male bashing is entertaining, lucrative, and earns its practitioners millions of followers on social media, and more and more a major industry in this country. Yet my own experience does not confirm this dismal public image of the male gender in America. For the most part, the men I know lead quiet, productive lives; are concerned with the welfare of their families and treat others with respect, including women. No, they are not perfect, but they lead ordinary lives and are thus invisible to feminists.”
In what you are passing on to the next generation, there is bound to be resentment of any public denigration which is why “A vote for Trump is a vote against Minneapolis” has become the outstate slogan in Minnesota.
Comment by baseball91 — November 14, 2019 @ 2:51 AM |