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Feds Deny Disaster Assistance for Mpls. Tornado Victims
The Federal Emergency Management Agency sent a letter Tuesday to Gov. Mark Dayton, denying the request. FEMA says the tornado damage is not beyond the combined capabilities of the state, affected local governments and voluntary agencies.
Officials are considering their options. The state has 30 days to appeal the decision.
Last week President Barack Obama declared Anoka and Hennepin counties disaster areas following the May 22 tornado. That declaration will send money to state and local governments - and some non-profit organizations - for repairs to facilities damaged by the storm.
Preliminary assessments put the damage to public infrastructure at $16.3 million.
Read more from Channel 5 KSTP News.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
The perpetual funding for Job Training of the Poor and Under-Served must stop. The focus on job creation has been abandoned
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| “If one more dollar goes to training and businesses are bypassed that can create opportunities then the best social services program is just being “social.” |
By Alan L. Maki, Guest Contributor IBNN NEWS Real Citizen Journalism Project
Minneapolis, MN (IBNN NEWS/RCJ/June 7, 2011)…In my opinion it is mean and cruel to train people for jobs that don’t exist. What is terrible is many of the training programs exist just so the over-paid administrators can feed at the public trough.
A lot of the problem can be solved through the enforcement of Affirmative Action which requires training for specific jobs public funds will be spent on to create.
Here in Minnesota Democrats and Republicans have been colluding for years running schemes and scams to evade and prevent the enforcement and enactment of Affirmative Action.
Obama shoved hundreds of millions of dollars into Minnesota through the American Recovery and Re-investment Act and then he allowed Minnesota politicians to allocate these funds to townships, counties and cities that don’t even have Affirmative Action requirements.
In all of Minnesota I bet there aren’t more than 6 townships, counties or cities that implement and enforce Affirmative Action and if you go on the job sites you can tell just by looking at the faces no Affirmative Action is being enforced— looking at the people standing in the food-shelf lines this is another matter.
With all the attorneys and politicians running around Minnesota talking about “human rights” and what a great “liberal” guy Hubert Humphrey was. here in Minnesota there isn’t a single attorney who will stand up and challenge this racism nor is there one single politician in the Minnesota State Legislature who will stand up and insist that any tax-payer funds spent on public works projects must include the enforcement of Affirmative Action.
Mark Dayton appointed an outright opponent of Affirmative Action, Mark Phillips, to head up the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. Mark Phillips worked for the number one offending employer in Minnesota for failing to enforce Affirmative Action: Kraus-Anderson.
Unless Affirmative Action is going to be stringently and stridently enforced there is no point in training people of color for any jobs because anyone can see the opportunity to get a job once trained is just not there. It’s called: racism.
It is racist to train someone to do a job knowing the people who are going to be trained will not get the job because of the color of their skin.
No one knows better than DEED Commissioner Mark Phillips whose department oversees millions of dollars in training funds that the people of color being trained are never going to get a job because while working for Kraus-Anderson it was his job to enforce racist employment policies designed to deprive people of color from getting jobs they were trained to do.
Dollars should be allocated to implement and enforce Affirmative Action.
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights whose job it is to enforce Affirmative Action is one sick racist joke that operates under the theory of “benign neglect.”
Monday, June 6, 2011
Black Focus II 06/05 by Black Focus II | Blog Talk Radio
Black Focus II 06/05 by Black Focus II | Blog Talk Radio
Ronald A. Edwards LIVE broadcast from the Target Center for the MN Lynx Women's Basketball game on Sunday 6/5/11.
Ronald A. Edwards LIVE broadcast from the Target Center for the MN Lynx Women's Basketball game on Sunday 6/5/11.
Friday, June 3, 2011
The Tornado Relief Efforts in North Minneapolis... 06/04 by IBNNNEWS | Blog Talk Radio
The Tornado Relief Efforts in North Minneapolis... 06/04 by IBNNNEWS | Blog Talk Radio
Say it Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud
Say it Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud
Uh! With your bad self!
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!
Some people say we've got a lot of malice
Some say it's a lot of nerve
But I say we won't quit moving until we get what we deserve
We have been bucked and we have been scorned
We have been treated bad, talked about as just bones
But just as it takes two eyes to make a pair, ha
Brother we can't quit until we get our share
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!
One more time!
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!
I worked on jobs with my feet and my hand
But all the work I did was for the other man
Now we demand a chance to do things for ourselves
We're tired of beatin' our head against the wall
And workin' for someone else
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud
We're people, we're just like the birds and the bees
We'd rather die on our feet
Than be livin' on our knees
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud
Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud
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