I've been trying so hard to keep up with all the posts on the list. I seem to recall that in one subject there was mention made of public relations hype.
To illustrate that point I offer this. I suspect most people read Vanam Pai's e-mail from CITY HALL and took a quick look at the Ladies Home Journal and after having checked out the rankings of the big cities moved on or either they just took the announcement as peachy keen, didn't check and went on about their busy lives. I did not read the whole article on the their website nor did I run out and buy but I did notice something about crime relative to the best cities in America in which to live. When LHJ looked at low crime they looked for violent crimes, crimes against property and rape. They included all 200 cities, big and small, that they had ranked in their "best place to live" category. In this ranking Minneapolis ranked 182 behind 50 other large cities and behind 133 small cities. I really don't know what conclusion to draw from this except that we must have scored aces in all the other categories or they give little weight to the crime. Tim Connolly Downtown __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.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
