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Minneapolis robberies are up 21% over 2004
MPLS Star & Sickle ^ | 11-25-05 | Chao Xiong

Posted on 11/26/2005 10:44:08 AM PST by Rakkasan1

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To: IndyInVa
I'd be curious to see census data on immigrants, illegal or not, and compare the immigration rate to the crime rate.

See post 13

41 posted on 11/26/2005 12:41:32 PM PST by WatchingInAmazement ("Nothing is more expensive than cheap labor," prof. Vernon Briggs, labor economist Cornell Un.)
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To: MNJohnnie
A system of more than 100 routes and more than 900 vehicles was sacrificed for one route with 24 vehicles.

Metropolitan Council cut bus service on 70 percent of its routes. Because of this decision, 28 routes were eliminated and another 78 saw reduced service. In addition to this, bus fares were raised by 25 cents.

Metro Transit officials justified this recommendation because of an expected $60 million shortfall in revenues over the next two years. However, that $715 million+ was recently spent on the Hiawatha light rail line. That is over 12 times as much as the expected revenue shortfall. Furthermore, there is a proposal to extended light rail to University Avenue, which would cost more than $800 million.

Instead of spending several hundred million dollars on light rail, it would be better to spend $60 million to maintain the bus system. This would benefit more riders at a lower cost to taxpayers.

Stop That Train!(old but good article)

http://citypages.com/databank/21/1000/article8398.asp

42 posted on 11/26/2005 12:50:40 PM PST by Rakkasan1 (Peace de Resistance! Viva la Paper towels!)
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I worked for the Soo Line RR back in the early 70s out of MPLS and there were plenty of black and Hispanic gangs back then...in their own little ghettos

Back home in N Central WI when the first Hmong came in and there numbers were small they were OK folks..

Howerver as their numbers grew and their kids grew up and had their own kids,the white commie social workers told them they not only did not have to assimilate but were 'owed' cars, homes, money, all their essentials they turned mean and gangs sprouted up along with the prostitution of their own young ones along with drug importation...

Remember Hmongs made their money by growing opium and selling into the recreational drug market...that has not changed...the left has also told them this too is their traditional heritage and as such again is another 'right' they enjoy over others...

No other ethnic group sucks dry the welfare teat quite like the Hmongs..at least not in N Central WI.

IMO

43 posted on 11/26/2005 12:59:50 PM PST by joesnuffy (A camel once bit my sister...necessitating her untimely death..-Mullet Omar)
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To: MNJohnnie
If it is working so great why does it get an annual subsidy FOREVER from the State?

For the same reason that all public transportation (including busses) get government subsidy's they dont make money. Same reason even though some highways are toll roads they still get outh sources of revenue to pay for construction. Infrastructure cost money..

44 posted on 11/26/2005 5:41:40 PM PST by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: Rakkasan1
not to mention craphole schools and lightrail to nowhere

I live north. Light rail really is rail to nowhere for anyone who doesn't live in the ring suburbs or in the Twin Cities proper. We just pay for it with state taxes that are already too high. We can thank Governor Turnbuckle for that.

45 posted on 11/28/2005 8:20:59 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Inertia: It's not just for breakfast anymore.)
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To: N3WBI3

They admittedly DID NOT count "paid" receipts to arrive at that number. It was a number extrapolated from viewing riders getting on at one busy stop, and multiplying times the number of trains/trips.
This fact has been "outed" and discussed frequently on many TC radio programs. The "train people" have publicly admitted this.


46 posted on 12/09/2005 8:09:51 PM PST by Fireone (Homeland security is 10,000 rounds of ammo and 10 cords of dry firewood.)
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