Perhaps, one would have to have been in Mr. Ortega's stores to experience the full effect of what the Mpls. Inspections Dept.'s issues with Mr. Ortega were. The Ortega store at 4th and Lake, bought by someone connected to Urban Ventures, it would appear, was really nasty. It smelled bad the one time I was in there--sour milk, meat past its sell-by date. Other shoppers reported (1) seeing mice in the food and observing mouse droppings; (2) being treated really shabbily while trying to buy from Mr. Ortega--this from a Spanish speaker; (3) seeing meat handled in such a way as to make buying it a dubious idea for one's health. I know one resident who went each week to a different Las Americas (Ortega's name for his grocery stores) to observe conditions and then call Inspections and report it I didn't like the way I saw Mr. Ortega treat his employees and I know, from talking to them about said behavior, that the INS had the federal eye on Ortega from 1996, at least. What many of us who live around here have observed is that Mr. Ortega was not a stand up-type guy, but a slum-maker/keeper. We who live here are all very tired of being the southside slum for Minneapolis.
Victoria Heller wrote: >Question for you social engineers out there: How can you be pro-jobs and >anti-business? >The most patriotic and GENEROUS thing anyone can do is - >Risk one's own money (and/or sweat) in business >Hire people >Make a profit >Pay taxes. > >Get it? > The most socially destructive thing you can do is start a business hire people and mistreat them make a profit while risking making people sick Make a big profit while creating yards and yards of misery and enforcing slum conditions on the neighborhood. Being anti cruddy businesses is being pro-labor and pro-business. Get it? WizardMarks, Central >_______________________________________ > >Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy >Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls > _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
