You're right, Jon - with one exception: Not enough locally produced public
affairs programming - especially for progressive listeners - they being the
largest underserved audience in the KFAI listening contour.
I have public affairs talk show proposal under consideration for a vote by
KFAI's Progr
On Friday, April 2, 2004, at 12:35 PM, Jason C Stone wrote:
Consider the costs associated with leaving the LRT infrastructure idle
(or in testing mode) for
one year.
$700,000,000 invested at the going bond rate is over $30,000,000/year.
Then figure in a thousand vehicle fleet, mostly busses, at
Maybe it is time to return to the REAL cause of this transit strike--the lack of
UNIVERSAL, SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE.
The union is holding out for health care coverage for retirees which is something that
too many companies are reneging on even though we still pretend we can operate this
countr
The Mayor and I have pledged our money to KFAI, the bestest
little radio station in the Twin Cities. How about you? Pure community radio for
cheap. 90.3 Mpls 106.7 St. Paul. Go for it.
Jon Gorder
Twin Citie
Before the strike began I heard more than one bus driver talk about how Pawlenty and
Bell we're planning to save millions of dollars from the busses sitting idle.
This tells me that there was no lock out since the transit union was stupid enough to
consciously comply with the Governor's Met Cou
How can it be legal for Minneapolis to allow the bidding process to start
over so that the other waste management companies could come in at the same quote
as Eureka? Something definitely smells bad and it isn't the recycling
trucks.
Anne Johnson
Cooper
REMINDERS:
1. Think a member has violat
[Mark Snyder wrote:]
"North Country Co-op, the Twin Cities oldest surviving
food cooperative, is celebrating its Grand Re-opening April 2nd - 4th.
...
Chicks on Sticks, the all-women's stilt walking group, will be at North
Country, grooving to David Stenshoel of Boiled in Lead and Sam Adams of
In a message dated 4/2/04 8:29:28 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The labor market roared back to life in March, adding 308,000 nonfarm jobs,
> as the Federal Reserve's two-year-old commitment to easy credit finally
> sparked the employment revival seen as crucial to Preside
Divide-and-conquer on I-35W
Divide and conquer appears to be more than a slogan when it comes to
Interstate 35W in South Minneapolis; it appears to be a strategy. The
Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) learned the concept following
a defeat in the 1990s and is now set to begin a $46
Heard that the City Council chose to negotiate with BFI for the new
recycling contract today...that's right, the #3 choice of Solid Waste.
Eureka finished third.
Did not watch the Council meeting, but wanted to throw this out for
comment - since I'm sure there will be much.
David Brauer
Kingfi
On April 2, 2004, Mark Snyder wrote:
>As has been widely reported, Met Council saves $220,000 per weekday the
>buses don't run. Today was weekday #21. Multiply 21 x $220,000 and you get
>$4.6 million. A week from today, it'll be up to $5.7 million.
>
>Why aren't these savings being put on the tabl
Bill Cullen had this postscript in a discussion about the bus strike:
P.S. Jennifer Pedersen wrote "I'm amazed how many people look at the bus
drivers' wages as if they are taking something away from the rest of us."
How can we increase anyone's wages/benefits without taking money from
someone else
Our List Manager commented that some bus strike messages are getting off of Mpls. I
assume that at least partly relates to the thread I started on privatizing bus
service, and the more generalized discussions between Mark Snyder and I about the
respective efficiency of government vs private ent
--- WizardMarks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Brandt wrote:
>
> >Another poster suggests that the strike is actually a walkout
> >
> WM: I think it's a lock-out in that employees were asked to clean out
> their lockers and Bell refuses to negotiate.
[TB] The picket signs along Franklin A
Steve Brandt wrote:
Another poster suggests that the strike is actually a walkout
WM: I think it's a lock-out in that employees were asked to clean out
their lockers and Bell refuses to negotiate.
the "Met Council refused to negotiate further." I've supervised union
preparations for a possibl
Consider the costs associated with leaving the LRT infrastructure idle (or in testing
mode) for
one year. This too, is money that could be brought to the negotiating table. If
Peter Bell
thinks transit workers are overpaid, as a list member has mentioned may be the case,
he should
state it cl
NEWS ALERT
from The Wall Street Journal
April 2, 2004
U.S. nonagricultural payrolls rose by 308,000 in March, the fastest pace in
four years, besting economists' consensus estimate for a rise of 120,000
jobs. But the unemployment rate rose a tenth of a percentage point to 5.7%.
[MH] I'
It may not technically be a lock out, but my point was that describing the
action as the union "walking off the job" was not accurate, either. The
thread was about media bias, and I think that Blake's choice of words
indicates a slant that is not favorable to the union. The significant part
that
At 07:30 AM 4/2/2004 -0800, Jason C Stone wrote:
You forgot to include the quote from the same article saying that job
growth is still lower than
we would normally expect at an economy growing at this rate. Nor does the
increase in jobs
reflect stagnant or decreased wages or people leaving unem
A previous poster asks: "Isn't it bothering you that every media
outlet in town, pretty much, seems to give the union a free pass and
isn't blaming them at all for this strike?"
Brandt: I can't answer your question because I don't have time to
take in every media outlet in town. I'm impressed
You forgot to include the quote from the same article saying that job growth is still
lower than
we would normally expect at an economy growing at this rate. Nor does the increase in
jobs
reflect stagnant or decreased wages or people leaving unemployment to take jobs at
reduced
salaries. I wo
It is day 30 of the Metro Transit bus
strike/lockout.
Metro Transit is asking the Federal government for
permission to delay the opening of light rail line for
a full YEAR.
Here is the story by Laurie Blake of the Star
Tribune:
http://startribune.com/stories/368/4700679.html
Pet
Just released:
http://www.thestreet.com/_medge/markets/meredithderby/10152017.html
The labor market roared back to life in March, adding 308,000 nonfarm jobs,
as the Federal Reserve's two-year-old commitment to easy credit finally
sparked the employment revival seen as crucial to President Bush's
Could someone help me out with a question? Are the members of the Minneapolis School
Board salaried or stipended? I need to know as soon as possible. Thanks
Loki Anderson
Marshall Terrace
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
The media is very definitely NOT pro union. Laurie Blake again today
said that the drivers had "walked off the job" when the were actually locked
out after the Met council refused to negotiate further.
Bell and Pawlenty appear to be willing to trash the Hiawatha Line to
prove that they ca
The excuses I heard on MPR were 1) they were one time savings and 2) there would be a
5-10% drop
in ridership that would require an aggressive marketing campaign. It doesn't add up
for me.
Jason Stone
Diamond Lake
--- Mark Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As has been widely reported, Met C
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