I suspect that that Met Council and Pawlenty have zero time for small business. They love big boxes and chains with headquarters elsewhere. For Wal-Mart, against all the little businesses Wal-Mart drives out of business. Big boxes and their big lots thrive with more freeways and more cars; buses get in the way of WalMart domination.
I urge small businesses to look instead to the Green Party for a sympathetic world view: lots of small businesses and coops, no big boxes, no TIF for big boxes, micro loans for small businesses, city govt buy-local policy, buses and other public transportation, single-payer health insurance (a *big* benefit to small business), and more. --David Shove Roseville On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Barbara L. Nelson wrote: > I spent some time in a yarn shop yesterday talking to the owner about > her traffic & she said the busiest time used to be people stopping on > their way home from work. However, with the bus strike the number of > people stopping has dramatically declined. She thinks that drive time > has increased due to the strike & people no longer have that "window" of > time to stop and do errands. > > Has anyone else heard stories about how the bus strike is affecting > retail stores? I'd like to know if this effect is typical. If it is, > and if the small business owners got together & raised a ruckus, maybe > the Met Council (being run by a Republican) would be more willing to get > things moving again. > > Just a thought. > Barbara Nelson > Burnsville > formerly Seward 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
