Saturday morning I was at the graduation for parents in the Northside Achievement Zone’s (NAZ)FamilyAcademy Shortly after getting her “diploma” while Pomp and Circumstance was being played, north Minneapolis parent Lucretia Gibbs came to the microphone to tell what this meant to her. She talked about the struggles in her life as she [...]
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It’s official: the City of Minneapolis will not increase the property-tax levy in 2012. That’s because last night, the City Council unanimously passed the no-tax-increase budget that I proposed in September. The newly-adopted 2012 City budget makes a major new capital investment in street improvements and invests in the coordinated One Minneapolis initiative to start [...]
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This week, my proposed 2012 zero-property-tax budget for the City passed another hurdle, after the City Council’s Ways and Means/Budget Committee, led by Chair Betsy Hodges, recommended it to the full City Council for adoption next Wednesday. I was grateful that we were able to partner with committee members to make some positive changes to [...]
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