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Posted on July 10 at 3:41 p.m.
If they're serving creamed corn and ham with taster's choice, consider me as good as there.
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Posted on June 23 at 2:58 p.m.
Not so fast, ChIef....Depends on what type of employer Walgreens is classified as. If classification is based upon the sales of the single store making less than 625k a year, minimum wage is 5.25 an hour. Otherwise, based on the chain it would be 6.15 an hour. Regardless, they would pay employees based on the avg. income and wages paid in the area, which aren't very high and would probably come barely over five bucks an hour. It's a part time job. That's how chain corporations make so much money.
I agree that the building that family dollar used to be in is ugly and has no further use, but they are also planning on tearing down two nice homes behind it, and taking down three small old brick faced buildings which still have a lot of potential for small business. Otherwise you have a goliath chain swallowing up an entire block and taking down all of the trees for an oversized parking lot. They wanted the WHOLE block, but the other owners wouldn't sell. Those of you who call it "progress" or "getting into the 21st century need to take the wax out of your ears-chains drive small businesses out of town, especially in smaller communities. In another 20 years, the whole stretch of downtown buildings will be torn down and replaced with parking lots and windowless precast concrete buildings. There are some people who appreciate character and architecture, and then there are those who don't give a da*n.
Granted, an Arby's comes to town and you guys think it's some sort of fine unique dining establishment.
Posted on June 17 at 6:19 p.m.
I would rather liken it to a Mies Van Der Rohe Bauhaus creation from the 1940's. It would be called "Der Precast concrete PolebarN." And it even has a parking lot big enough to hold 150 cars, which coincidentally is exactly how many FF residents would converge upon said Walgreens at the same time in order to buy overpriced house-brand batteries and cheap plastic toys.
Seriously, folks. I don't see how you can get so excited over a walgreens. It's just another place to get halloween costumes and stool softener. I guess if it makes 30 more people happy to get 4.75 an hour, then you're all set. You call it progress-I call it characterless chain sprawl.
It looks almost as outrageous as that ugly cement-gulag that is the new dairy queen on the other side of town. I almost wonder whether if you pull up beside it, you would be served a dilly bar by a disheveled prisoner of war with a ball and chain attatched to their ankle?
Posted on June 12 at 2:52 p.m.
And furthermore, I'm amazed at how the neighborhood where I grew up in the middle of Fergus Falls (or most of the inner part of the city) has gone downhill. It looks like an atom bomb hit it. There's piles of junk behind and beside homes and cars parked all over front lawns. Why doesn't the city DO ANYTHING about it??? Why would anyone want to move to a place that looked like that?
If you're one of these folks who thinks it's perfectly alright to get away with hoarding trash, you need to have your head checked. In fact, there's a home with a burned out garage filled with garbage by the river that's been sitting in that condition for at least FIVE years. And another burned out house a couple of blocks away that has been in that condition for about 10 years. All I gotta say is....Wow.
Posted on June 12 at 2:41 p.m.
I'm not quite sure whether to take the first comment seriously or laugh. The right to having a yard full of trash, junk cars and vehicles parked all over the grass has _nothing_ to do with troops fighting overseas and the loss of personal freedoms. In fact, you have no right to do so at all.
A person who has no regard/respect for their neighborhood/community and creates a health hazard with a bunch of trash cars and garbage should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Why? Because you have no respect and it's an eyesore.
Quit using the American flag and troops as a sorry excuse and use some common sense. We have it really good in this country, and I don't think people realize it half the time.
On second thought, I think I would like to fill my entire front yard with old television sets and used toilets, and paint them all bright pink. Because that is my right as an American citizen and no one is going to infringe upon those rights!!!! I think we should just start to arrest people for having GRASS in their front yards, because that makes about as much sense, right?? right???
Posted on April 4 at 3:04 p.m.
Here's another good article on the ethanol subject from St.Cloud:
Posted on April 3 at 5:22 p.m.
You forgot to mention what truly helps our farmers: the billions in ethanol corn subsidies thanks to our national/local government (tax dollars).
The American government is driving the whole process and producing artificial markets for the products, otherwise the ethanol industry wouldn't be able to sustain itself. Can someone say ADM and CARGILL lobbies?
I recommend that the fine journalists at the Daily Journal take a more fair and balanced look at the ethanol debate, instead of writing a plethora of one-sided articles on such a hotly debated industry addled with disinformation.
Remember, there are a lot of people who believe _everything_ they read in the newspaper and watch on television. And then there are those who look at both sides of the coin.
Posted on March 25 at 4:05 p.m.
Real good for the area?....I suppose in the fact that it creates 30 new jobs? Is that it? Or that it gives local farmers more to grow? It doesn't matter since they all get subsidies anyways.
What about the enormous amount of air pollution ethanol plants create due to slackened restrictions by our government for just that purpose?
Less dependence on foreign oil? How do you figure ethanol is produced in the first place? With _massive_ amounts of water and FOREIGN OIL!
Depleting our land further by over-farming due to increased need for corn? Raised prices for corn and related products?
Cars get even worse mileage with ethanol than with regular gas? It pollutes significantly more due to the obvious fact that cars need to burn more to get the same mileage (E85 has a very low energy content) and that it's mostly alcohol that your car is running on?
Too bad sugar is such an expensive commodity in America, because making it from sugar cane is well more effective and efficient. Not to mention it doesn't pollute nearly as much. But ADM probably wouldn't like that, now would they?
It's all just a big failed government subsidy program gone haywire. And _your_ tax dollars are paying for it.
Good for anything? That's just plain bull. Just because someone presents you with a set of facts doesn't mean it's true. People just seem to refuse to look at the other side of the issue.
You don't make a very good point in your article: "the presence of that active stack in FF is a good thing." No, really it isn't. And none of the statements have any factual basis.
We'll ultimately stop drilling for oil because there will be none left.
But _we_ won't be around when that happens nor should we have to worry about that, right??
Posted on March 20 at 5:11 p.m.
Is that the Mark L. that I _think_ you're talking about? Oh, that's got to be hilarious.
I vaguely remember sledding with Chad in winter circa 1985 and he ran into a utility pole. Ahh, memories.
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