De La Salle deal undone by Met Council

BY ED FELIEN

The Metropolitan Council rejected a land swap deal proposed by Minneapolis Park Board administrative staff to allow De La Salle High School to build a football stadium on park land when they discovered the regional park system wouldn't be getting anything back in the swap. What Brian Rice (the Park Board attorney and De La Salle alum) proposed was giving the school regional park land without paying what it was worth or giving equivalent land in trade.

The deal now comes back to the Minneapolis Park Board and the City Council to finalize details. Some observers were reminded of the original de la Salle who was fond of setting up forts on Native lands and claiming all the land that drained into the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers for France. It was he who named Louisiana for King Louis and his wife Anne. He never got to Minnesota. The present site of Peoria, Illinois was as far north as he got.

Dorothy Woolfork remembered.

She was a one-woman powerhouse. She worked tirelessly in the 8th Ward on behalf of progressive candidates. Her home was a model for the rest of the neighborhood. She worked two jobs to send her sister's children to college.
She died last week at the age of 91.