Also, has anyone heard if they are going ahead with planned pay increases for the city workers. Because I could see that if tell the city no more money than last year, some employees might be losing their jobs to allow other employees to get raises without regard to the deficits and stuff. I can see that happening because my personal experience is that city employees don't have much solidarity. But I think it is too bad to have less police protection just to trudge onwards with past compensation decisions, ignoring new economic realities.
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Seems kind of unprecedented to be building a Cub 16 blocks away from another one in the same neighborhood. I can't think of anyplace where Cub did that. And Country Club had to CLOSE a store at 46th and Hiawatha after Minnehaha Mall opened up. This either means Cub is doing awfully well, or they are unaware of the local retail history. Wonder why they wouldn't look for a site in the Nokomis area instead. The people in that neighborhood have to travel quite a ways to reach any large foodstore.
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I , too, wonder about this apparent need by public agencies to build lavishly. When various U of M presidents were crying about lack of funds, they were building all kinds of new and lavish structures. And, as an alum, I was wondering what students thought as they saw double-digit tuition increases, decline in the schools reputation, claims of "we can't hire world-class professors", and then all these new buildings. I took many of my classes in the "temporary" buildings left over from the GI Bill era and found them no worse than classes in big brick buildings. Then, I go into the "warehouse" buildings that so many retail outlets use these days and where business is conducted successfully and wonder more. The best private-sector equivalent is the tendency of headquarters to be palaces while the real work is done in cheap and functional buildings. It must be a sickness of the top management, the white collar class, that they must work in PRESTIGIOUS buildings.
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Anyone else get these flyers at their doors with articles by Charles Colson, the ex-con. Seems really weird to reach back to the Viet Nam War and a White House plumber, to contradict Michael Moore's antiwar speeches.
Jim Mork Cooper
Twin Cities Anti-War Protest and Speakout. Oppose George "The Man Who Would Be Caesar" Bush's Gallic war in Iraq. March 29, 2pm, Loring Park, Minneapolis
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U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL LAW "Suddenly, the government of the United States has discovered the virtues of international law. It may be waging an illegal war against a sovereign state; it may be seeking to destroy every treaty which impedes its attempts to run the world, but when five of its captured soldiers were paraded in front of the Iraqi television cameras on Sunday, Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, immediately complained that 'it is against the Geneva convention to show photographs of prisoners of war in a manner that is humiliating for them'" 3.25.03 www.bushwatch.com
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