Carly Swirtz is going to have to expand on her claim that the same stores vary their prices in suburban stores. I went to the only "poor neighborhood" Cub I know, the one in Midway, and I went up Snelling to Roseville to the Har Mar Cub. I compared prices of unadvertised staples. All the prices were identical. I don't doubt you could put together a shopping cart where one would be higher, but I also think no one would actually have to BUY that shopping basket of goods. And, of course, if you require exotic stuff with almost no consumer market, the bet is off. The factor that makes them expensive is the wholesale cost. Anyway, I just don't think the difference is there in discount groceries. What could make things expensive is if you shopped at one of these hole-in-the-wall Latino or East African shops in town but at Cub in the suburbs. I'm quite sure the customer base of the mini-marts really pay a premium.
I checked the Sperling site. According to their figures, food actually is slightly higher in Blaine than in Minneapolis.
http://www.bestplaces.net/html/ccecon.asp?lstat=MN&lcity=2706382&rstat=MN&rcity=2743000
Teachers
I have yet to see a single case where someone who complained about teaching pay had also complained about the vast sums that people like Lawrence Coss pull down after driving companies into the quicksand. They simply seem not to be BOTHERED when one of these plunderers makes of with tens of millions. But somehow it is WRONG for teachers to make a decent wage. And then of course you have people like Kevin Garnett who do nothing but entertain, who are supposedly ENTITLED in their teenage years to tens of millions of dollars. "Oh, but that's the MARKETPLACE". Well, thanks, but then who died and made the MARKETPLACE God? Freezing teachers' pay while having no CONCEIVABLE limit for a pro athlete strikes me as the worst possible argument in favor of the the marketplace. Anyway, it seems certain that until teachers kick and scream, the couch potatoes of society will continue to maintain they are "selfish" (but the pro athletes aren't?)
And, yes, if the school district committed to a contract, they should honor it. Or do we also think only some contracts need to be honored? Suppose the Wolves said, well, Kevin we thought we'd make more MONEY when we promised you all that. Sorry, kid, we'll have to cut you $20 million. That, of course, would work like a charm. I'm sure KG would realize how wrong it would be to be so "selfish" as to demand the contract to be honored!
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Jim Mork
Cooper Neighborhood
No bonds for colonial wars. Say "no pay no play" and spare the grandkids from a life of poverty.
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