7. June, 2003 - Cork this!
- Just a quick update. I’ve ordered the t-shirts from BUTIK.PL and I’m currently waiting for PayU to validate my account so I can pay. Looks like the final price is going to be about $14 per shirt (XXLs are more, so I haven’t figured it out exactly yet).
- Sosa gets 8-game suspension, which seems about right. The historical precedent is 4 to 10 games from what I’ve heard, and while he thinks it’s harsher than he deserves, there were those asking for longer suspensions, too. As Scott points out, the fact that MLB checked his bats and found them clean proves only that someone was smart enough to clean out Sosa’s locker before the officials came to get the bats.
- Rioting penalties proposed in University of MN code, which is a step in the right direction, but as was pointed out by June Nobbe, what’s really needed is a culture change, rather than a single law. But maybe this law will help start the change.
- Minneapolis to consider allowing 2 a.m. bar closing. The only real opposition is over what parts of the city will be allowed to have the later closing time. The current proposal is city-wide, but there are those who would like to see it limited to just downtown. [strib]
- Glitch wipes out Candian firearms records of an unknown number of people who registered their firearms (as required by Canadian law) in the last few days of last year. If you’re not registered by July 1, you’re breaking the law, but how do you know whether you’re registered or not? For that matter, how does the government know who’s registered? [some guy]
- Gun signs: eyesores, windfalls. The signs are required to be ugly by law, but at least it’s made a little bump in business for the sign-printing industry.
- Downtown Minneapolis will fall under cameras’ watchful scrutiny, but Councilmember Lisa Goodman assures us:
If you’re not urinating into a flower pot in front of Goodfellows it shouldn’t be a problem for you.
Gee, Lisa, I feel so much better about being continually watched in downtown now.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Sat, 07 Jun 2003 08:57:42.