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COMMON SENSE - DPPA's newsletter Join DPPA and get the high quality paper version of Common Sense mailed to your door. These articles are retained on the web for historical interest and do not necessarily reflect the views or goals of DPPA today. Winter/Spring 2006 DPPA / LWV Comp. Plan Forums DPPA Annual Civic Activist Award. Process, Standards, and Sugarloaf Comprehensive Plan Update - It's Really Happening! Sustainable Duluth Surfaces Comprehensive Planning: What, Why and Potential Challenges A New Super Have you paid your dues? All COMMON SENSE : Winter/Spring 2006 as a single page

Winter/Spring 2005 The County Issue Duluth greenspace, tax forfeit land, and the County. County roles and challenges Join DPPA's email discussion list Common Sense seeks editor Bylaw adjustment All COMMON SENSE : Winter/Spring 2005 as a single page

Spring 2004 What's new with Mayor Bergson? The Importance of Tax Forfeited Land Who is DPPA anyway? and 8.3 said they attended the speech either "this year" (2003 DPPA welcomes the new crew All COMMON SENSE : Spring 2004 as a single page

Fall 2003 DPPA forum shows workings of city commissions Planning Commission still not Open Government Consistently surprised by development DPPA honors Nancy Nelson with tree planting ceremony. Bill Hardesty and DPPA present digital camera to NHS All COMMON SENSE : Fall 2003 as a single page

Spring / Summer 2003 DPPA's Civic Activist Award for 2003 Goes to Bill Hardesty DPPA Elects board members and officers Been to any good meetings lately? Barb Olsen ends three-year editing spree City Web Browsing - Join a Commission, or two. Calendar of Upcoming Events All COMMON SENSE : Spring / Summer 2003 as a single page

Winter 2003 Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. -- James Madison The Planning Commission - a DPPA forum A ``Report Card'' of Sorts: DPPA's ``Duluth City Councilor Review'' Civic-Activist ``Burnout'': Treating the Symptoms DPPA's Civic Activist of the Year for 2003 ``Making Places Special'' Features Duluth DPPA Briefs DPPA Calendar of Events All COMMON SENSE : Winter 2003 as a single page

Fall 2002 Unraveling the Mysteries of DEDA So, what’s wrong with the Wal-Mart process in Duluth? The ``Face to Face'' Series Building Community Through Music DPPA Focuses: Heading the Issues Off at the Pass Here Are Those Proposed Bylaws Changes.... Are You Getting the ``Juice'' on DPPA-Talk? The Next DPPA Project: City Councilor and Mayoral Report Cards Spirit Mountain - A DPPA Public-Policy Project A Tree for the ``Tree Lady'' DPPA Calendar of Events All COMMON SENSE : Fall 2002 as a single page

Summer 2002 "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein The Comprehensive Plan: Whither or Wither? Women in Duluth Politics -- Where Are They? Nancy Nelson: A Campaign Journey Greg Gilbert: On Encouraging Women in Local Politics Wow, What a Good Time! Welcome to Jan Karon The DPPA Civic Activist Award goes to DPPA’s 2002 Video Project Soon to Be On the Air Revitalize Democracy! Calendar All COMMON SENSE : Summer 2002 as a single page

March 2002 "Is It Mean to Be Green?" DPPA Debate March 9, at Our New DPPA Meeting Location at Fitger's! Is It Mean to Be Green? No "Anti-Business" Labels for Us! Doing Business in Duluth: Good Grief! Or Good Fortune? Business Alliance Charts Path Less Traveled "Robin Goodfellow"-A New Business Adventure in Duluth Skijoring enlightenment Progressive Springboard DPPA's Second Annual Spaghetti Feed Extravaganza! DPPA Board elections! Living Green Conference Celebrates Its 10-Year Journey...and Act Now to "Protect Our Water" February 28. (Information: 726-1828 DPPA Calendar All COMMON SENSE : March 2002 as a single page

Winter 2001/02 "When a person tries to act in accordance with his conscience, when he tries to speak the truth, when he tries to behave like a citizen even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it won't necessarily lead anywhere-but it might." -- Václav Havel Special Planning Issue Super-connector of People A Grand Way to Start the Year! Mark January 12 on Your Brand New Calendar Next DPPA Meeting Sometimes in Losing We Actually Win Our Friend, Alden Lind Mother Nature Delays the Ringsred Bench... But Fails to Foil Matrimony Has It Been Nearly a Year Already?! Calendar of Upcoming Events All COMMON SENSE : Winter 2001/02 as a single page

November 2001 "Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." -- David Lloyd George Special Pro-Development Issue! The Glory Returns: The Duluth Boat Club Lake Place Discovered Return of the Walking Tours? And While We're on the Topic: "Images of America - Duluth" Habitat for Humanity: Building Homes for a Stronger Community Bayfront: Positive Development for Duluth What Else Is New? Calendar of Events DPPA Second Anniversary Extravaganza! Celebrating the Candidates and Volunteers and Looking Toward DPPA Goals for 2002 All COMMON SENSE : November 2001 as a single page

Summer 2001 "Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. DPPA SUMMER PICNIC EXTRAVAGANZA! It's Campaign Season and Time for the Return of the Terrible Campaign-Volunteer-Fear Disease Let's Give Them Our Help 50 Years and Counting: Time for a City Charter Remodel? Exploring Potential Routes for the Superior Hiking Trail Through Duluth Northland Sustainable Business Alliance Forges On Dr. Eric Ringsred Bench Has Been Ordered! Aquariums in Other Places: Baltimore Summer Calendar All COMMON SENSE : Summer 2001 as a single page

May 2001 "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." -Bertrand Russell Eric Ringsred Appreciation Day! Honoring the Man of Foghorn Fame! Finally, an Alternative for Duluth Area Businesses? Excerpted from writings by Lucy Blake, President of the Sierra Business Council in Sierra Nevada: More Questions for the Questions-Without-Answers (So Far) Department: Spending Our Sales Tax Money PUD, CUP... DPPA Says Its Piece "It's Just Like a Political Rally from the Old Days!" Thanks, Melanie! A Quick Profile Next DPPA Meeting Calendar of Events All COMMON SENSE : May 2001 as a single page

April 2001 "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." -Stephen Leacock DPPA Spaghetti Feed Extravaganza! The Spirit Mountain Saga: The First Good News in a Whole Long Time Excerpts from DPPA's Recent Point of View, "Comprehensive Plan Must Include Spirit Mountain" Railing Against the "Done Deal" Syndrome Spirit Mountain Fax Attacks What You Can Do on the Spirit Mountain Issue What It Takes to Get Involved-in Spirit Mountain or Any Issue Calendar of Events All COMMON SENSE : April 2001 as a single page

March 2001 "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." Albert Einstein Next Meeting of Duluth Public-Policy Alliance NORTH SHORE SEWER LINE Where Are All the Good Candidates? Looking for a Good Read? Try "Better, Not Bigger" Hoof It On Out to Those Comp Plan Meetings! Non-Smoking Restaurants Look for a Boost Gilbert Presidency Set New Standard of Excellence Calendar DPPA Sponsorships Available All COMMON SENSE : March 2001 as a single page

January 2001 "Duluth hasn't lost its urban old-growth forest yet. Maybe the final answer, when it comes, will tell us something about what really matters in Duluth." Terry Brown, on Spirit Mountain, in a letter to the editor. Next DPPA meeting: City Charter "Duluth Progress Zone" The City Planner's Anecdote Corner Web Sites to Take a Gander At Notes on the News by Wendy Carlson "Selfish" or "Self-Interest"? You Choose. Calendar All COMMON SENSE : January 2001 as a single page

December 2000 First they ignore you, Then they laugh at you, Then they fight you, Then you win -Gandhi Next Meeting Discuss Duluth's Strong Mayor-Weak Council System A Place that Holds a Million Memories: The Duluth Armory Gold and Green: Attaching Dollar Figures to Open Space Slade's "Resignation" from Aquarium Prompts Search for a Positive Outcome Decision on Spirit Mountain Lawsuit a Puzzler Those "Sneaks" on Park Point Haven't Given Up Yet January Grows Near, and with It Comes the Smoke-Free Ordinance DPPA Sponsorships Now Available DPPA's Calendar of Events All COMMON SENSE : December 2000 as a single page

October 2000 "The only thing I know for sure...is that every minute of public testimony in front of the City Council has been packed with wisdom, intelligence, and a sincere desire to make Duluth a better place to live." - Greg Gilbert, Duluth City Council President Next DPPA Meeting: DPPA Hosts a Campaign Training Seminar "Sneaky" Citizens and The Park Point Motel Selling Off the City's "Site Preservation Status" Land United HealthCare Construction Chokes Life in Chester Creek Kept Alive on the Pages of the Duluth News Tribune This One Has Spawned Some Good Jokes: Citizens Speaking at the City Council Westgate Townhomes Project: Too Late for an EAW Calendar All COMMON SENSE : October 2000 as a single page

September 2000 "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu Next Meeting of the Duluth Public Policy Alliance (DPPA) St. Louis County Jail in Danger of Demolition Granitoid Streets "Between a Rock and a Wet Place" Sifting Through for the Facts DPPA Library Know Anyone Else Who Might Enjoy "Common Sense"? Calendar Contact information: Even if You Just Pick One! Actions to Take This Month Complimentary Issues of "Common Sense" End This Month! All COMMON SENSE : September 2000 as a single page

August 2000 It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over-and When It Comes to the McQuade Harbor, It Still Ain't Over, Even Then! Thank Goodness They Didn't Have to Lick the Stamps! Wendi on Why She Thinks We Ought to Vote for Nader DPPA Now Has a Library When speaking Before the City Council, Remember the Old Girl Scout Rule: Be Prepared! Calendar: Contact information: Actions to Take This Month: (Consider Affixing List to Refrigerator!) Complimentary Issues of "Common Sense" Must End Soon! Next Meeting of the Duluth Public Policy Alliance (DPPA) All COMMON SENSE : August 2000 as a single page

June 2000 Next Meeting of the Duluth Public Policy Alliance (DPPA) Cranking Up the Commitment: DPPA Launches Into Two Big Issues Know Anyone Else Who Might Enjoy "Common Sense"? Time Flies and the 2001 Elections Grow Closer DPPA Bides Its Time on the Endorsement of a Bayfront Plan as the Issue Continues to Percolate DPPA Now Has a Part-Time Staff! As the City's Comprehensive Plan Work Promises to Finally Get Under Way, the Natural Resources Inventory Hops Into High Gear Sustainability Forum Coming to Duluth (More from) The Questions-and-No-Answers Department Web Sites to Take a Gander At Coming Soon! Calendar of Events Actions to Take This Month Thanks for your memberships! All COMMON SENSE : June 2000 as a single page

May 2000 "Politics and ambitions don't have to be crass, but they're likely to become so unless citizens occasionally jerk the chain. And, I've tried never to be afraid to jerk it when necessary." - Alden Lind Duluth's Smoking Ban Proposal Creates an Enjoyable Ruckus in DPPA Next Meeting of the Duluth Public Policy Alliance (DPPA) April's DPPA Meeting Communications to Take a Gander At In the Wake of the Bayfront Task Force Recommendations: Two Points of View DPPA's handout on Earth Day The Questions-and-No-Answers Department Coming Soon! Calendar of Events Thanks for your memberships! All COMMON SENSE : May 2000 as a single page