Judy, are you 13 or 14?

Ever wonder how long the high school's been there, or how long it's been part of the park system? Ever delve into the numbers of urban youth who get scholarships to De La Salle who otherwise would rot in Mpls. public schools? Ever ask where the MCLU was when the whole island was broken glass and drunks save for that school.

Since your holy grail seems to be the tax base, ask Phyllis Khan and all the other DFL phonies who live on Nicollet Island how much they paid and how they came to live on "park land" in the first place. The lefty priviledged who call it home tried to get the city council to do their bidding and failed. Then they turned to the park board and failed. Then they discovered some non-elected river preservation concern that never heard of Nicollet but seems to oppose a football field. Now they're desperatley prodding the MCLU along. Don't you see their desperation, hypocrisy and the hated of kids and education?

Loathe the "religious right" all you want. Keep pushing pins in your Dick Cheney doll, but don't let it blind you from the history of the situation, politicians' obfuscation of the issue, and the law.