Folks, I'm singling out Victoria's post (below) only as an example of a larger phenomenon creeping back onto the list.
The post below is not about Minneapolis - it's about Minnesota in general. While the state's business climate obviously affects the city, Minneapolis-issues is a list devoted to city-level policy and city-level effects. While the temptation is constant to "take it to the next level," the purpose of the list is to discuss city-level stuff that other, bigger forums ignore. Larger discussions - which tend to be more abstract and ideological - take us away from our purpose to discuss "applied policy" as it really affects us in our own backyard and our own experiences as city residents (or people with interests in Minneapolis.) I know this is sometimes a tricky line, but please be mindful to focus your posts on Minneapolis - as that is the list's core purpose. Thanks, David Brauer List manager on 12/10/01 10:09 AM, Victoria Heller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After assessing such factors as state, personal, and corporate income-tax > rates, property taxes, sales and death taxes, and workers' compensation > rates, The Small Business Survival Committee, a Washington, D.C. think tank > and lobbying group, ranked the best and worst states (with regard to taxes) > in which to run a business. As reported in Fortune Small Business magazine, > here are the results -- > > The winners: 1. Nevada 2. South Dakota 3. Washington 4. Wyoming > 5. Florida > > The losers: 1. Minnesota 2. Kansas 3. Maine 4. Hawaii 5. > Rhode Island _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
