MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!
"It's almost scandalous,'' said Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, meaning the lack of big grocery stores with fresh grapefruit."
Somebody's begging for a Super Wal-Mart. I'm betting they don't want them there, though.
Here in Seattle they have just figured out how to reduce the traffic and parking problems. New buildings don't need to worry about providing parking for their tenants, but will be REQUIRED to provide "green space". This, OF COURSE will REDUCE traffic and parking problems because people will then have to use mass transit.
(Or stay in the suburbs which I currently do.)
Maybe boy-mayor R.T. should start his own "Simon Delivers"
type grocery delivery service, but that would have to also be subsidized mostly by taxpayers.(kinda like rail here)
Guess I better not give him any ideas.
That "NPR book bag" line was brilliant. This guy would probably do better at stand-up than most of today's so-called "comedians."
Soucheray has been taking alot of hits in the editorial replies and from e-mails due to his poking fun at global warming and Algore's movie.
It's been warm here in Mpls. (40 degrees) most of December. My bird bath is filled with water instead of ice.
Minnesota - the new vacation spot! LOL
Go Joe!
MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!
Good rant.
I remember as a city kid visiting my country cousins out in Suffolk County, LI, around 1946. My aunt sent my cousin and me out for milk and bread. Well, I was used to running down the corner to the Mom and Pop store for these items. I thought my cousin and I would NEVER get to the store. It was two miles away.
Meanwhile, we got lots of fresh air and exercise going to and from.
By the looks of our "inner city poor", most of them could use more exercise and less food.
A good friend of mine is a store manager for a major grocery chain.
They have left EVERY 'urban' market because EVERY store was unprofitable due to shopper and associate theft and 'shrinkage.'
The market was unprofitable. period.
Worse, people like Davis pay a premium for these goods.
Wait, I thought that these Mom & Pop shop owners were the poor people being ground into dust by the Wal-Mart beomoth. Now I find out that they are the capitalist exploiters of the urban poor. Maybe we should just outlaw big stores and have the Federal Department of Grocery Prices force the Mom & Pop stores to sell at Wal-Mart's prices.
self-ping
