April 4 Meeting Minutes: Committee Reports
May 2004
Posted inNeighborhood News
Latino Voters Have A LOT to Say
On Election Day and the day after, I spoke with everyone from Vice Presidents to valets, a Mexican-American originally from Topeka, Kansas to a first time voter from Puerto Rico. This is what they had to say…
Posted inFurther Down Stream
May 2004
Riverwest’s summer outdoor music concerts, Gordon Park Grooves, may be canceled this summer. The series, while popular with the neighborhood, has not made enough to cover band and equipment costs. Organizers of the concerts — The Tracks, Linneman’s, and Lakefront Brewery — are looking for sponsors to help underwrite these costs. Interested organizations, corporations, businesses, […]
Posted inEditorials
A Modest Proposal: Inner City Hall
by Janice Christensen
Let’s face it. People get wrapped up in their own problems. Neighborhoods have their own concerns. People in other parts of the city just aren’t interested in helping solve the problems of the inner city.
There’s been a lot of talk about “healing the rifts” of the recent mayoral election, and everyone “working together” to make our city a better place. I have to tell you, I don’t see it happening.
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