Not wanting Joe Soucheray to cherry-pick topics for the list, I thought I'd pass along some OTHER stories from last Thursday's SW Journal and today's Skyway News:
The one I think might be most interesting for list members is on the city's recent health-care deal with its employees. Employees opted for a high-deductible, lower-premium plan, and the city kicked in a substantial part of its premium savings back to employees, setting up individual accounts to pay off the deductible. In the end, the deal saved $8.8 million compared to what status-quo 2004 premiums would have been. The city actually spent less in '04 for premiums than in '03, and workers come out ahead, too. A harbinger for many of us? The story is at: http://www.skywaynews.net/articles/2004/03/08/news/news03.txt Linden Hills gets behind affordable housing - although one project might not exactly qualify (Keith Reitman alert: subsidies involved.) http://www.swjournal.com/articles/2004/03/04/news/news01.txt School board members say for Kenny, bitter closing medicine still coming http://www.swjournal.com/articles/2004/03/04/news/news02.txt Chris Johnson alert: Park Board may make Calhoun refectory a restaurant http://www.swjournal.com/articles/2004/03/04/news/news04.txt Recycled recommendation: city staff sticks with garbage giant for recycling deal http://www.swjournal.com/articles/2004/03/04/news/news11.txt Lake Street recommendation draws parking, assessment concerns http://www.swjournal.com/articles/2004/03/04/news/news08.txt (Lots of other stories in the Journal, www.swjournal.com, and Skyway News, www.skywaynews.net). David Brauer Editor, both papers Kingfield REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
