Today, it's all good.
Saving the life of a stray cat, Women's History Walk in lower Dayton's Bluff and dinner at The Strip Club, finished with a piece of peach bread pudding. Is this not happiness?
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Dayton's Bluff Gets Level 3 Sex Offender!
Shutter the windows; barricade the doors! Dayton's Bluff is scheduled to host a Level 3 Sex Offender. Sadly, anyone in Dayton's Bluff can define Level 3 designation as a sex criminal who is most likely to reoffend. Most likely to commit another sex crime. Most likely to violently molest or rape again. "They have to live somewhere," neighbors hear time and time again. "It's better that they have an address so we can follow up," Police say. But do they all have to live in a single neighborhood? Unlike the Most Likely to Succeed award from high school, Level 3 designation is a very real threat to a community that already carries an enormous burden for the City of Saint Paul.
What burden? An uncanny amount of rental property, for one--many of which don't carry the Certificate of Occupancy required for any rental unit (a protection for tenants, landlords and communities that general standards of health and safety are being implemented and also revenue to the City of Saint Paul). You want sex offenders? We got sex offenders. A recent one, whose crime was against children, found a comfy little apartment directly across from the Margaret Rec Center. We've also got a steady flow of immigrant populations into the neighborhood, just as it's been since the birth of Dayton's Bluff. The challenge is forming community when everyone maintains their mother tongue. We're also burdened with the perception that our standards of quality are lower--that we don't mind a little rough-around-the-edges je ne sais quoi. Funny how none of my friends or neighbors in Dayton's Bluff fit this perception.
So where's it coming from?
What burden? An uncanny amount of rental property, for one--many of which don't carry the Certificate of Occupancy required for any rental unit (a protection for tenants, landlords and communities that general standards of health and safety are being implemented and also revenue to the City of Saint Paul). You want sex offenders? We got sex offenders. A recent one, whose crime was against children, found a comfy little apartment directly across from the Margaret Rec Center. We've also got a steady flow of immigrant populations into the neighborhood, just as it's been since the birth of Dayton's Bluff. The challenge is forming community when everyone maintains their mother tongue. We're also burdened with the perception that our standards of quality are lower--that we don't mind a little rough-around-the-edges je ne sais quoi. Funny how none of my friends or neighbors in Dayton's Bluff fit this perception.
So where's it coming from?
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