- Under new bill, rioters would lose financial aid. That’ll address the issue of students who are rioting, but not the folks who aren’t students (it sounds like it broke down about 50-50 for the ones who were arrested in Mankato). Dunno if it’s a good step or not.
- They say ‘Alcohol anarchy’ fueled Mankato riot. But the quote I like is:
Hopefully police and prosecutors will throw the book at those involved. I was encouraged to see felony convictions for the riot here in April, but so far, all the arrests in Mankato seem to have been for misdemeanors.It’s sad partially because nothing too severe is going to happen to them, so they won’t realize how much their actions have affected people and the city.
- Rioters don’t appreciate the value of a dollar says Soucheray. He’s got a point there. [press-patch]
- Student riot spectators aren’t blameless, police say, which is a point I made back in April:
It’s nice to see that someone else has figured this out. [strib]I also heard a fair amount of complaining from people who got maced for
doing nothing
and my response has been to askDid you leave when the police were dealing with the riot and told everyone to leave?
- U plans for risk of riots this coming weekend, and probably for Homecoming too, which falls on Halloween this year. It’ll be interesting to see how it works. [press-patch]
- City orders students out of over-occupied rental house owned by Jim Eischens. That doesn’t surprise me much. There are an awful lot of houses in the area where more than three unrelated people are living, which violates the zoning for the area. I bet I could name five houses on my street without even thinking hard.
- City should pay historic designation costs is an editorial in the Daily weighing in on the issue that could end up tearing my neighborhood association apart. The thing is that the group of students who are opposing historic designation have decided that if they take over the neighborhood association, they can use it to fight the city. They seem to be getting some pretty poor advice from the lawyer who’s “helping” them. He’s the same lawyer who was behind an attempt in 1989 to take over the neighborhood association, so I suspect his motives are less than pure.