30. January, 2003 - and now, in local news...
- If You're Not Atlas, Are You Still Allowed To Shrug?, by Joel Simon. A nice tale about principles. [endwar]
- Refinery seen by artistic eye prompts threat of call to FBI. A UW-Madison grad student decided the old Koch Refinery (now called the Flint Hills Refinery) looked interesting in the sunshine. So he decided to take a few pictures of it. The security guards confiscated the film from his camera in the name of national security. Sounds like the kind of thing we were warned about when we were going into East Berlin in 1980. I think that's all the commentary that's needed. [strib]
Delmonico's is up for sale. I stopped in yesterday to ask them about the listing, and it's true. They're looking around for someone to buy the store, and are hoping they'll find someone who'll keep it as a neighborhood deli. But it's a tough business to be in, according to the guys there. The idea of running a little store like that is vaguely tempting, but I seem to have left my spare $365k in my other pants, and a business plan of Well, I have no idea, but I learn pretty quick.
doesn't inspire confidence in the hearts of bankers. Besides, it's not really so much that I want to own a store (though changing careers looks like a pretty good idea some days) — it's more that I just don't want the store that's there to go away. There's already one store (Brotherson's) that's gone from the list I put together two and a half years ago, and I don't want to lose any more. [steph]- After wettest summer comes driest winter. More on the goofy weather we've had this year. I still have trouble thinking that it's January (and almost February) when there's less than an inch of snow on the ground. But the below-zero temperatures are an effective reminder. Then again, they're saying it may hit 40 today, which means we'll lose all the snow we've got. But there's more on the way. 7 of the next 10 days have forecasts that include snow. [strib]
- City Pages: We Shoot, We Score:
On Tuesday, January 28, the Minnesota Court of Appeals sided with City Pages in our two-year quest to compel the state and Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Minnesota to disclose the joint legal bills associated with Minnesota's lawsuit against the tobacco industry.
Score one for the somewhat more independant press. It'll be interesting to see the details when they finally come out.
- In Pushing Tin, The City Pages talks about Hilltop. A charming little community to the north of me, which had the highest crime rate in the Twin Cities metro area for a while. It also has one of the liquor stores in the area that's open until 10pm six days a week (unlike other cities which make them close at 8pm Monday-Thursday).
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:03:46.
