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Death of a perennial candidate From: Darlene Levenson Date: 04:56 UTC Short link

Every time I attend a funeral, every time I read about the passing of someone I
knew, I always think:

If only that person who's being "celebrated" could hear the outpouring of kind
words and fond memories being expressed. How that person would have loved to be
able to attend his/her funeral just to mingle with everyone who came. It's an
ironic fact of life that a person's funeral could just be the best time of
their life.

Death of a perennial candidate From: Ken Jopp Date: Jan 08 18:24 UTC Short link

I am posting this remembrance of Mary Jane on behalf of my friend, Oliver
Steinberg.  Oliver's words help fill in the portrait of this provocative and
amusing public personality.   -- Ken Jopp

_________________________________________

I shamelessly took advantage of Mary Jane's reputation as a crank, to file
against her in the 1984 Republican party for Congress, thinking that an unknown
candidate might be preferred to a known "zany."   Little did I know.   Despite
the fact that the Pioneer Press endorsed me in the primary (thanks, Mitch
Pearlstein!), Mary Jane Rachner (as she was then) got the votes to become the
nominee.   The Minnesota GOP was in its "we're not Watergate" phase and was
still officially called the Independent-Republican party.   As a Republican, I
was something of a ringer and Mary Jane really deserved to win.   But
afterwards I think the I-R Party tried to keep her off the ballot  in the
general election, or something like that.
    In the course of that campaign, I got to know Mary Jane slightly and
realized that it was wrong to just think of her as a cartoon caricature of the
"little old lady in tennis shoes."    When we competed again, it was in the
course of a school board election---we had each nominated ourselves, in the
lonely tradition of perennial candidates.
     I saw another side that time, too, when the candidates gathered for an
Urban League forum or some similar venue.   The genuine pleasure with which the
people greeted Mary Jane was accounted for by the fact that in her spare time,
she volunteered as a tutor for disadvantaged school children.  But she wouldn't
have uttered a junk word like "disadvantaged"---she'd have used plain English.
    She was witty.   When Hollywood made a movie about mutant monster spiders,
Mary Jane used a large, hairy fake spider as a campaign insignia to tease those
who reacted to her as if she were crazy.   Her explanation:
"A-Rachner-phobia."
    I heard her logically impeccable objection to some proposed "diversity"
curriculum:  "Diversity is a fact.  You don't 'teach' diversity.  You might try
to teach respect and tolerance."   Yet she sounded like the apostle of
intolerance all too often, due to her quite flagrant homophobic prejudices . .
. which were "principles" in her mind.
     It was many years before I learned about that automobile crash, which must
have left lasting aftereffects in many ways; and brain damage was among her
injuries if I am not mistaken.   To recover as much as she did, and to
participate and persevere despite it, and also despite the ridicule and
taunting she encountered with her eccentricities, was great testimony to her
strength of character and determination.
     She wasn't easy to pigeonhole politically, either.   She changed at one
point from a scripted "drug-war" advocate, to a reform point of view opposing
prohibition.   When Minneapolis police killed an elderly African-American
couple in a so-called mistaken-address drug raid, Mary Jane went to the
victims' funerals.
     She told me that there were not a whole lot of people there; I think she
believed the entire city should have attended and seen what the result was of
declaring "war" against ordinary citizens.   And her dislike of war, other than
ones personally launched by Ronald Reagan, was manifested more recently when
she doubted the merits of the USA's Gulf-region adventurism.
     After her years of go-it-alone politicking, her election to the Board of
Soil and Water Commissioners ultimately gave her the chance to savor an actual
electoral triumph.
      In the quirky ranks of perennial candidates, a few are the one-time
winners turned perpetual losers, like Harold Stassen or Dick Franson, and most
others only encounter contempt or indifference.   But fate capped Mary Jane
Reagan's career with the people's reward she really had longed for: election,
at last, to a position of trust and service.   Good for her!

Oliver Steinberg,   St. Paul, MN

Carl Pohlad (bless his black lil' heart) From: Jon Kerr Date: Jan 07 05:12 UTC Short link

I have to point out that Carl Pohlad did not bring us any of the Twins players
named. It was Calvin Griffith who saw the potential and developed the nucleus
of the Twins two World Series championships. In reality, Pohlad was something
less than a great baseball fan when he purchased the team in 1984, once
admitting that he had never even attended at game at old Met Stadium. But I
suppose you could say that Carl always knew how to get a good deal at the right
price.

Historic Saint Paul presents... From: Andrew Hine Date: Jan 06 23:07 UTC Short link

Clever lads!

Unowsky, your answers were so good you win a Cube.  Congratulations.
Pick one up at the historic Landmark Center, 3rd Floor, or I will
personally deliver one to your house.  What's your address?  Did they
kick you off the West Side already?

For more historic details on Raspberry Island and the Boat Club, see
attached files.
For 71 photos of the Island, go to
http://picasaweb.google.com/amhine2/RaspberryIsland#

AMH

2009/1/6 Mike Fratto <mfratto@yahoo.com>:

> 1.  An RFP is a Request for Proposals.  Its similar to a RFB, Request for a
> bid.  The difference is the RFB is asking for your lowest price on a
> commodity.  The RFP is asking for proposals and, in most cases, a price to
> complete the proposal to provide for, normally, intellectual work. But of
> course you knew this.
>
> 10.  One can obtain one of those fantastic cubs by contacting AMHine his
> self or Historic St. Paul for a small $10 fee.
>
> 7.  I don't know how much of the former Navy Island the city owns.  My,
> assumption is all of it.  However, it is only 2.2 acres in the first place.
> I think the Minnesota Boat club has a long term lease on the space.
>
> As for when the Navy left the island, I think it was the late '60s or early
> '70s.  My dad was a reservist who served out of the Island.  He was one of
> the St. Paul reservists who manned the USS Ward that fired the first shot
> for the United States an hour before Pearl Harbor was attacked.  He retired
> after 30 years which would put the date between 1969 and 1971.
>
> FYI: According to a news release on October 9th, 2008, The island that sits
> beneath the Wabasha Street Bridge was named in the 1880s because of the
> raspberry bushes that grew on the island. It was home to Minnesota's first
> athletic institution, the Minnesota Boat Club, which remains today. In 1948,
> it was renamed Navy Island when it became a Naval training center and
> changed back to Raspberry Island in 1995.
>
> Mike Fratto
> Payne Phalen
>
>
> Please help those who don't get enough to eat.
> http://oyh.org
> http://hungersolutions.org
>
> The future depends more on
> what we do between now and then
> Than what we did in the past.
>
> --- On Tue, 1/6/09, david unowsky <david.unowsky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: david unowsky <david.unowsky@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [SPIF] Historic Saint Paul presents...
> To: "Andrew Hine" <amhine2@gmail.com>
> Cc: "St. Paul Issues Forum" <stpaul-issues@forums.e-democracy.org>
> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 6:57 AM
>
> 8) a boulwares a ring in its nose and a wreath around its horns or whatever
> it wants to wear. (A henways 6 to 8 pounds depending on age and breed.)
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:45
>  PM, Andrew Hine <amhine2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In gratitude for your patience during the last 6 months, attached here is
>> the latest and greatest semi-annual "HSP Preservation Journal."
> I'd have to
>> say it's one of our 25 best Journals of all time.  Included are above
>> average articles on:
>>
>> East 4th Street
>> the Ackerman Building
>> the Green Stairs
>> the Riverview Commercial Club
>> Preservation 101: Windows
>> Vacant buildings, by the numbers
>> Raspberry Island
>> the City's Comprehensive Plan
>> the City House-Head House-Sack House
>> 3M East Side
>>
>> This is required reading for SPIFfers, and there WILL be a quiz.  BUT,
> it's
>> a take-home quiz:
>>
>> 1)  When do RFPs go out for 4th St, and what's an RFP anyway?
>> 2)  In what year was the Ackerman Building built?  Demolished?
>> 3)  What does GSCC stand for?
>  REDA?  Who dismantled the damaged stairs?
>> 4)  What materials issue does the Riverview Commercial Club face?
>> 5)  What part of an old window is usually the most deficient?
>> 6)  How many Category 1+2+3 vacant buildings were in Saint Paul last
>> October?
>> 7)  How many acres does the City own on Raspberry Island?  When did the
>> Navy leave the island?
>> 8)  What's a Boulware?  (extra credit - What's a Henway?)
>> 9)  Where was Sanitary Farm Dairies, Inc located?
>> 10)  How does one obtain an increasingly rare Saint Paul Cube?
>>
>> For the answers, either
>> A) e-mail <email obscured>
>> B) read the 8-page Journal
>> or
>> C) send me $10
>>
>> Also visit  www.historicsaintpaul.org  for scads of other interesting
>> stuff.
>>
>> AMH
>> VP 2009
>> HSP
>>
>>
>> St. Paul Issues Forum now contains the following
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>>
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>>
>>
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>>
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--
Andrew M. Hine
757 Armstrong Avenue
Saint Paul, Minnesota
55102-3813
USA
home   651.292.0660
mobile  651.253.5237

The following files were added to this topic:

Navy Island Plan.pdf (application/pdf, 1676KB)

Navy Island Report 1990.pdf (application/pdf, 1040KB)

Rasp Island - Boat Club.pdf (application/pdf, 521KB)

Rasp Is design plan.pdf (application/pdf, 1791KB)

[Mpls] Carl Pohlad (bless his black lil' heart) From: Dave Shove Date: Jan 06 21:09 UTC Short link

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, M Charles Swope wrote:
> --- On Tue, 1/6/09, greenpartymike <ollamhfaery@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> "It is the Irish tradition to speak no evil of the dead.
>
> So I will say nothing."
>
> But, you just did. Or is it the Irish tradition to be hypocritical?

But, he in fact speaks (names, says) no specific evil(s), eg pulling wings
off flies. He doesn't even say (state, propose) that there is evil there
that he's not speaking about. He may (or may not) imply, but he does not
speak or say.

Now, there may be OTHER Irish traditions, some of them just waiting to be
named and described, others to be honored in their gray magnificence.

And greenpartymike knows just how much I would relish that topic.

It is the Irish Tradition to ......

-David Shove

[Mpls] Carl Pohlad (bless his black lil' heart) From: Charlie Swope Date: Jan 06 19:51 UTC Short link

Death of a perennial candidate From: Joe Nathan Date: Jan 06 17:25 UTC Short link

Thanks to several folks for sharing memories of Mary Jane.  I met her at
a number of political meetings, and we talked several times about school
issues.  While I disagreed with many of her ideas about education.  I
agree with Mike's assessment that she was trying to figure out how she
could be helpful.  She really was an example of a person trying to make
a positive difference.

Joe Nathan
Highland Park

Alan Uhl wrote:
>> Thanks to Michael Mischke for his comments on Mary Jane Rachner
>> Reagan, the delightful kookie amateur politician. She and I were two
>> of about 14 district organizers in Ramsey County for Gene McCarthy
>> during the winter of 1967-68. We worked for Jim Goff and Goff worked
>> for John Connolly, the state organizer. She was a loud, all-out,
>> sincere opponent of the Vietnam War. I recall the weekly McCarthy
>> campaign meetings at a small store front on Snelling at Selby. Early
>> on the operation was semi-secret despite the visible location
>> because Jim had a lot respect for the DFL's organizing ability and
>> didn't want to stir it into action as it slept in sureness over LBJ.
>> Mary Jane had a Nixon-like hatred of the 'elitist' Kennedys and a
>> distrust of Jim because she saw him as using McCarthy for a stalking
>> horse candidate for Bobby Kennedy. In addition she was against
>> secrecy, as was I. So we became paired for a change in strategy at
>> those meetings. She was formidable and, as I recall, fairly
>> effective and, of course, we moved to almost full throttle as we
>> crushed the pro-Johnson, if not pro-war, regulars at the caucuses. I
>> saw her a few times over the years and called her up whenever she
>> filed for some election. That car accident killed her friend and I
>> remember her struggles in recovery. I was pleased when she was
>> elected soil commissioner. That name change finally worked.
>>
>
> Al Uhl, downtown
>
>
> Alan Uhl
> Downtown, St. Paul
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Death of a perennial candidate From: Al Uhl Date: Jan 06 17:12 UTC Short link

> Thanks to Michael Mischke for his comments on Mary Jane Rachner
> Reagan, the delightful kookie amateur politician. She and I were two
> of about 14 district organizers in Ramsey County for Gene McCarthy
> during the winter of 1967-68. We worked for Jim Goff and Goff worked
> for John Connolly, the state organizer. She was a loud, all-out,
> sincere opponent of the Vietnam War. I recall the weekly McCarthy
> campaign meetings at a small store front on Snelling at Selby. Early
> on the operation was semi-secret despite the visible location
> because Jim had a lot respect for the DFL's organizing ability and
> didn't want to stir it into action as it slept in sureness over LBJ.
> Mary Jane had a Nixon-like hatred of the 'elitist' Kennedys and a
> distrust of Jim because she saw him as using McCarthy for a stalking
> horse candidate for Bobby Kennedy. In addition she was against
> secrecy, as was I. So we became paired for a change in strategy at
> those meetings. She was formidable and, as I recall, fairly
> effective and, of course, we moved to almost full throttle as we
> crushed the pro-Johnson, if not pro-war, regulars at the caucuses. I
> saw her a few times over the years and called her up whenever she
> filed for some election. That car accident killed her friend and I
> remember her struggles in recovery. I was pleased when she was
> elected soil commissioner. That name change finally worked.

Al Uhl, downtown

Historic Saint Paul presents... From: Mike Fratto Date: Jan 06 13:56 UTC Short link

1. An RFP is a Request for Proposals. Its similar to a RFB, Request for a bid.
The difference is the RFB is asking for your lowest price on a commodity. The
RFP is asking for proposals and, in most cases, a price to complete the
proposal to provide for, normally, intellectual work. But of course you knew
this.

10. One can obtain one of those fantastic cubs by contacting AMHine his self or
Historic St. Paul for a small $10 fee.

7. I don't know how much of the former Navy Island the city owns. My,
assumption is all of it. However, it is only 2.2 acres in the first place. I
think the Minnesota Boat club has a long term lease on the space.

As for when the Navy left the island, I think it was the late '60s or early
'70s. My dad was a reservist who served out of the Island. He was one of the
St. Paul reservists who manned the USS Ward that fired the first shot for the
United States an hour before Pearl Harbor was attacked. He retired after 30
years which would put the date between 1969 and 1971.

FYI: According to a news release on October 9th, 2008, The island that sits
beneath the Wabasha Street Bridge was named in the
1880s because of the raspberry bushes that grew on the island. It was
home to Minnesotas first athletic institution, the Minnesota Boat
Club, which remains today. In 1948, it was renamed Navy Island when it
became a Naval training center and changed back to Raspberry Island in
1995.

Mike Fratto
Payne Phalen


Please help those who don't get enough to eat.
http://oyh.org
http://hungersolutions.org

The future depends more on
what we do between now and then
Than what we did in the past.

--- On Tue, 1/6/09, david unowsky <david.unowsky@gmail.com> wrote:
From: david unowsky <david.unowsky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [SPIF] Historic Saint Paul presents...
To: "Andrew Hine" <amhine2@gmail.com>
Cc: "St. Paul Issues Forum" <stpaul-issues@forums.e-democracy.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 6:57 AM

8) a boulwares a ring in its nose and a wreath around its horns or whatever
it wants to wear. (A henways 6 to 8 pounds depending on age and breed.)

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Andrew Hine <amhine2@gmail.com> wrote:

> In gratitude for your patience during the last 6 months, attached here is
> the latest and greatest semi-annual "HSP Preservation Journal."
I'd have to
> say it's one of our 25 best Journals of all time.  Included are above
> average articles on:
>
> East 4th Street
> the Ackerman Building
> the Green Stairs
> the Riverview Commercial Club
> Preservation 101: Windows
> Vacant buildings, by the numbers
> Raspberry Island
> the City's Comprehensive Plan
> the City House-Head House-Sack House
> 3M East Side
>
> This is required reading for SPIFfers, and there WILL be a quiz.  BUT,
it's
> a take-home quiz:
>
> 1)  When do RFPs go out for 4th St, and what's an RFP anyway?
> 2)  In what year was the Ackerman Building built?  Demolished?
> 3)  What does GSCC stand for?  REDA?  Who dismantled the damaged stairs?
> 4)  What materials issue does the Riverview Commercial Club face?
> 5)  What part of an old window is usually the most deficient?
> 6)  How many Category 1+2+3 vacant buildings were in Saint Paul last
> October?
> 7)  How many acres does the City own on Raspberry Island?  When did the
> Navy leave the island?
> 8)  What's a Boulware?  (extra credit - What's a Henway?)
> 9)  Where was Sanitary Farm Dairies, Inc located?
> 10)  How does one obtain an increasingly rare Saint Paul Cube?
>
> For the answers, either
> A) e-mail <email obscured>
> B) read the 8-page Journal
> or
> C) send me $10
>
> Also visit  www.historicsaintpaul.org  for scads of other interesting
> stuff.
>
> AMH
> VP 2009
> HSP
>
>
> St. Paul Issues Forum now contains the following file
>
>    http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/file/302-2009-01-05T224259Z
>    Name: PresJournalFall08.pdf
>    Tags:
>    Type: application/pdf
>    Size: 2049KB
>
>
> All the files that have been added to St. Paul Issues Forum can be viewed
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>
> Andrew Hine
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Historic Saint Paul presents... From: david unowsky Date: Jan 06 12:57 UTC Short link

8) a boulwares a ring in its nose and a wreath around its horns or whatever
it wants to wear. (A henways 6 to 8 pounds depending on age and breed.)

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Andrew Hine <amhine2@gmail.com> wrote:

> In gratitude for your patience during the last 6 months, attached here is
> the latest and greatest semi-annual "HSP Preservation Journal."  I'd have to
> say it's one of our 25 best Journals of all time.  Included are above
> average articles on:
>
> East 4th Street
> the Ackerman Building
> the Green Stairs
> the Riverview Commercial Club
> Preservation 101: Windows
> Vacant buildings, by the numbers
> Raspberry Island
> the City's Comprehensive Plan
> the City House-Head House-Sack House
> 3M East Side
>
> This is required reading for SPIFfers, and there WILL be a quiz.  BUT, it's
> a take-home quiz:
>
> 1)  When do RFPs go out for 4th St, and what's an RFP anyway?
> 2)  In what year was the Ackerman Building built?  Demolished?
> 3)  What does GSCC stand for?  REDA?  Who dismantled the damaged stairs?
> 4)  What materials issue does the Riverview Commercial Club face?
> 5)  What part of an old window is usually the most deficient?
> 6)  How many Category 1+2+3 vacant buildings were in Saint Paul last
> October?
> 7)  How many acres does the City own on Raspberry Island?  When did the
> Navy leave the island?
> 8)  What's a Boulware?  (extra credit - What's a Henway?)
> 9)  Where was Sanitary Farm Dairies, Inc located?
> 10)  How does one obtain an increasingly rare Saint Paul Cube?
>
> For the answers, either
> A) e-mail <email obscured>
> B) read the 8-page Journal
> or
> C) send me $10
>
> Also visit  www.historicsaintpaul.org  for scads of other interesting
> stuff.
>
> AMH
> VP 2009
> HSP
>
>
> St. Paul Issues Forum now contains the following file
>
>    http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/file/302-2009-01-05T224259Z
>    Name: PresJournalFall08.pdf
>    Tags:
>    Type: application/pdf
>    Size: 2049KB
>
>
> All the files that have been added to St. Paul Issues Forum can be viewed
> at
>    http://forums.e-democracy.org/s/?g=stpaul-issues&amp;f=1&amp;t=0
>
>
> Andrew Hine
> West End, Saint Paul
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Historic Saint Paul presents... From: Dirk Dantuma Date: Jan 06 04:24 UTC Short link

#10.  at the ButtonBar, but they charge $15 (they are now a collector's
item)

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Hine [mailto:amhine2@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 4:45 PM
To: St. Paul Issues Forum
Subject: [SPIF] Historic Saint Paul presents...

In gratitude for your patience during the last 6 months, attached here is
the latest and greatest semi-annual "HSP Preservation Journal."  I'd have to
say it's one of our 25 best Journals of all time.  Included are above
average articles on:

East 4th Street
the Ackerman Building
the Green Stairs
the Riverview Commercial Club
Preservation 101: Windows
Vacant buildings, by the numbers
Raspberry Island
the City's Comprehensive Plan
the City House-Head House-Sack House
3M East Side

This is required reading for SPIFfers, and there WILL be a quiz.  BUT, it's
a take-home quiz:

1)  When do RFPs go out for 4th St, and what's an RFP anyway?
2)  In what year was the Ackerman Building built?  Demolished?
3)  What does GSCC stand for?  REDA?  Who dismantled the damaged stairs?
4)  What materials issue does the Riverview Commercial Club face?
5)  What part of an old window is usually the most deficient?
6)  How many Category 1+2+3 vacant buildings were in Saint Paul last
October?
7)  How many acres does the City own on Raspberry Island?  When did the Navy
leave the island?
8)  What's a Boulware?  (extra credit - What's a Henway?)
9)  Where was Sanitary Farm Dairies, Inc located?
10)  How does one obtain an increasingly rare Saint Paul Cube?

For the answers, either
A) e-mail <email obscured>
B) read the 8-page Journal
or
C) send me $10

Also visit  www.historicsaintpaul.org  for scads of other interesting stuff.

AMH
VP 2009
HSP

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Carl Pohlad (bless his black lil' heart) From: Jon Gorder Date: Jan 06 03:41 UTC Short link

Just heard of the death of Mn. Twins owner Carl Pohlad (man, that family has
some genes, he was about nine years younger, at 93, than his mother
when she passed).
 There's a long list of activities that would rival the blue meanies we could
launch into here but what the hell. Here's to the only owner to bring us
Giatti, Hrbyk, Viola and Puckett and the only two World Series titles in Twins
history.

 R.I.P. Carl.

 Jon Gorder
 Cathedral Hill

Death of a perennial candidate From: Jay Wilkinson Date: Jan 06 03:32 UTC Short link

I never encountered her when she was protesting the US war in Vietnam - she
only came to my attention after she had taken a sharp right turn.

Never-the-less I loved some of her bravery, brazenness and turns of phrase.
For example, I aspired to be viewed as strong and uncompromising as those she
termed "tire iron feminists."

Now that I think of it, I should get someone to design a t-shirt on that theme
and put it on sale at Mayday, Northern Sun, Tires Plus, the successor to Amazon
Books, Common Good Books....  Do you think they'd let me sell it at the winter
carnival?

Historic Saint Paul presents... From: Andrew Hine Date: Jan 05 22:43 UTC Short link

In gratitude for your patience during the last 6 months, attached here is the
latest and greatest semi-annual "HSP Preservation Journal."  I'd have to say
it's one of our 25 best Journals of all time.  Included are above average
articles on:

East 4th Street
the Ackerman Building
the Green Stairs
the Riverview Commercial Club
Preservation 101: Windows
Vacant buildings, by the numbers
Raspberry Island
the City's Comprehensive Plan
the City House-Head House-Sack House
3M East Side

This is required reading for SPIFfers, and there WILL be a quiz.  BUT, it's a
take-home quiz:

1)  When do RFPs go out for 4th St, and what's an RFP anyway?
2)  In what year was the Ackerman Building built?  Demolished?
3)  What does GSCC stand for?  REDA?  Who dismantled the damaged stairs?
4)  What materials issue does the Riverview Commercial Club face?
5)  What part of an old window is usually the most deficient?
6)  How many Category 1+2+3 vacant buildings were in Saint Paul last October?
7)  How many acres does the City own on Raspberry Island?  When did the Navy
leave the island?
8)  What's a Boulware?  (extra credit - What's a Henway?)
9)  Where was Sanitary Farm Dairies, Inc located?
10)  How does one obtain an increasingly rare Saint Paul Cube?

For the answers, either
A) e-mail <email obscured>
B) read the 8-page Journal
or
C) send me $10

Also visit  www.historicsaintpaul.org  for scads of other interesting stuff.

AMH
VP 2009
HSP

The following file was added to this topic:

PresJournalFall08.pdf (application/pdf, 2049KB)

New Years Predictions for St. Paul From: Andrew Hine Date: Jan 05 20:37 UTC Short link

I still have an analog crystal ball, so things aren't very clear.  Nonetheless,
it appears the following will occur:

January
some sort of "Billboard 500" event (very blurry...); "Just gimme some sort of
sign, girl, oh my baby, to show me..."

February
Hallmark opens Valentine's Day card and candy factory in Hamm's Brewery;

March
crazed Dutchman steals Zambini from Landmark and creates seventeen miles of
skating trails along River; anonymous donor finances animal psychiatrist to
treat Como Zoo denizens

April
Head House gets final paint job and even nay-sayers show up for free wine &
cheese party; Frogtowner wins $50 in rain garden contest

May
Coney Island permanently re-opens for new May Day Festival; sells out of
Maibock on the first day; Ye Olde Solar Panel Shoppe opens

June
man swims in River off Raspberry Island and survives; car boot sales held all
month in vacant East Side parking lot

July
massive drought in Bible Belt brings on massive prayer for sky blue Saint Paul
water, which is sold for $55/barrel, tax-free; urban zip-line circuit a huge
success

August
material scientist saves the day by explaining to MPR radio types that
vibrations can actually be damped; thousands pay $10 a head to escape summer
heat by going on underground tours of Saint Paul

September
mother of all Autumnal Equinox Parties nets stereo owner a fine; no one shot
all month; Meteorologist Convention at XEC

October
Great Boulevard Harvest; canning supply shop opens downtown

November
first annual Guy Fawkes Day/Bonfire Night bash in BVNS; migratory birdwatchers
spend $550,000 at riverfront sho... oh, wrong town...

December
Palace Theater re-opens; "Peanutcracker Fantasy" debuts; The Regift Shop opens

Death of a perennial candidate From: Darlene Levenson Date: Jan 05 18:14 UTC Short link

I truly appreciate Michael Mischke's synopsis and scenarios about Mary Jane
Rachner's life and politics. I was a reporter for a family-run newspaper in
Mpls. when she was in full force. Yes, we called her kooky and only ran one of
her letters-to-the-editor, but in her own way she became a legend and achieved
fame, because not only the media but people in general recognized her name--
probably more than other candidates'.

By posting this, you gave Mary Jane a fine farewell gift. For all we know,
she's somewhere out there giggling with glee. You did a good thing, Michael! My
total respect and thanks to you. Darlene

Death of a perennial candidate From: Michael Mischke Date: Jan 05 17:41 UTC Short link

I still remember it as one of the stranger requests a political
candidate has ever made of me. Running as an independent
conservative in the 1984 general election against incumbent DFL
Congressman Bruce Vento for the 4th District seat in the U.S. House
of Representatives, Maryjane Reaganthen known as Mary Jane Rachner
dropped by the Villager office to place an ad for her campaign. She
handed me the ad copy that she had typed up under the headline, An
Open Letter to the Citizens of St. Paul. She also produced a
photograph of herself, beaming in the embrace of President Ronald
Reagan. She told me she had paid $1,000 for the privilege of having
the photo taken with the president when he was in town earlier that
year.

Theres just one thing Id ask you to do, she said. Can you do
something to hide my turkey neck?

She suggested the addition of a big but tasteful bow beneath her
chin. I dutifully complied by cutting a bow out of plain white paper
with a scissors and taping it to the photo.

Thats it! she exclaimed. And thats the way the photo ran in her
Villager ad.

I was reminded of ReagansMaryjanes, that isfamously forthright
quirkiness this week when I got the news that she had died.
(Inexplicably, an obituary never appeared.) Her body was found by a
neighbor on the kitchen floor of Reagans Highland Park home on the
morning of December 16. The death certificate listed the cause as
simply sudden death, though cardiac arrest is suspected, according
to her neighbor and physician, Dr. Jim Giefer. Divorced twice and
living alone, Reagan was 87.

Reagan had been called many things during her years as a perennial
candidate for public office, but until 1996 winner was never one of
them. Thats the year Ramsey County voters overwhelmingly elected her
to the obscure position of Soil and Water Conservation District
supervisor, probably to get me off the streets, she said at the
time. The victory ended a marathon run for elective office for
Reagan, who first ran unsuccessfully for the St. Paul School Board in
1972, a race she once referred to as my respectable campaign. Her
political ambitions were put on hold two years later when she was
involved in a serious car accident. The crash broke nearly every bone
in her body.

Reagan returned to the campaign trail after Ronald Reagan was elected
president in 1980. She was so enamored of the president that she
changed her name two years later in his honor. Since then she had run
for everything from City Council to president, with races for School
Board, mayor, Ramsey County Board of Commissions, U.S. House of
Representatives and U.S. Senate thrown in for good measure.

My purpose was never to win the race, Reagan once said of her
numerous bids for public office. You cant do that unless you have
the dollars and important people backing you. But every election year
Id look over the field and see what looked like an avenue for my
beliefs.

Those beliefs shifted over the years, from being what she once
referred to as a smart-ass liberal who worked for the Democratic
Party and protested the Vietnam War to an arch-conservative known for
her outspoken stands against abortion and homosexuality. And never
one to mince her words, Reagan managed over the years to offend the
sensibilities of just about everyoneon the left and right.

Reagan was well-aware of her reputation as a crank motivated by
nothing more than a desire to attract attention to herself, but it
never seemed to bothered her. If you assume that people act only on
selfish motives, youre not going to understand me, she once told
the Villager. My attitude is not, am I going to be rich and famous?
It is, what can I do in my last years of productive life to make a
difference?

Literary Scene From: Erik Hare Date: Jan 05 03:04 UTC Short link

Jay recommended:
> Just read Bart Schneider's Man in a Blizzard, a private eye mystery set in
metro area
> this year in the run up to the RNC

Thanks for the recommendation! There is an active literary scene here in
Minnesota, and while it's centered on Minneapolis we certainly have our share
in Saint Paul. Common Good Books and Nina's have done a lot to help elevate the
visibility of our local writers. I hope people can support Schneider and other
local writers.

BTW, balloting starts tomorrow on the 2008 Weblog Awards, and my blog Barataria
is up for Best Cultural Blog. I'd appreciate some Saint Paul solidarity and a
vote from everyone here. Barataria can be found here:

http://erikhare.wordpress.com/

And the voting page can be found here:

http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-culture-blog/

There may be other Saint Paulites who are finalists for a Weblog Award, and if
so I would very much like to hear from them!

St. Paul Novel, Man in Blizzard From: Jay Wilkinson Date: Jan 05 02:11 UTC Short link

Just read Bart Schneider's Man in a Blizzard, a private eye mystery set in
metro area this year in the run up to the RNC.  Read and find:  Hungry Dave
Unowsky; WA Frosts; Bob Dylan, Tony Bouza; Jesse V; VP hopeful Governor Holsum;
Cecil's Deli; collapsed 35 E, Robt Bly and other poets.  I imagine he finished
the book in June and who can blame him for not anticipating Sarah Palin......

Build the project right. From: Gary Fischbach Date: Jan 02 18:44 UTC Short link

The Central Corridor will be built because the concept of light rail makes more
sense than the reality. Light Rail is a new age religion, just like
eco-theology. It doesn't have to make sense, it has to feel good.

Limited stops down University? This will kill small business on University. The
bus can stop every block or two, allowing you to stop near a business on a hot
or cold
day and less walking if you are carrying packages. This busline for MTC is one
of their most used lines, so why kill it?

Think of light rail going down Washington Avenue in Stadium village? How will
ambulances get to Boyton and the hospitals in an emergency situation? Better
not have that heart attack, stroke, or allegic reaction on the East Bank. Think
of all the support companies that make the U move: garbage haulers, vending
machine service, maintenance, cleaning, product deliveries, office supplies,
you name it! ALL of the products will cost the U more because it will be such a
hassle getting vehicles into Coffman, Health Sciences, Riverbend, etc. Think of
how difficult it will be for all the Stadium Village companies will have it? It
will cost them more to have everything delivered and no one will try to drive a
car to any of them. If it has limited light rail stops, how far will you walk
with a -20F windchill to go to Erberts and Gerberts? The bus could stop at
amost every block, the rail line won't.

I live in Highland park, I go to Roseville when I need to shop at mall type
stores. Snelling and I94 and University are already jammed for car traffic,
think I'm going to fight my way thru there with light rail holding up the
traffic lights? I plan on taking Snelling south to west Seventh and on to West
Saint Paul/Robert street or 494/Bloomington/Richfield more me!


Hey MPR, better be careful what you wish for! Build it right next to MPR, they
asked for it!
How many little minority/small owned shops will be able to make it thru the
construction phase of University light rail? Not many. How many will have to be
subidized to return?

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