Finally (!) the Minneapolis City Council is starting to move forward in closing the loophole in the city's living wage job policy. Too bad it took four years of pressure and a notice from the legislature that the city was in violation of state law to get some of these City Council members to act....otherwise big projects like the downtown Target store would have been covered a long time ago. Too bad it took all this pressure just to get City Council members just to guarantee $9/hour jobs in exchange for $150 million taxpayer dollars. Here's the full article at the Strib: http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?story=83406382&template=metro_a Jennifer Smith Stevens Square _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com _______________________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
