STrib online- was RE: [Mpls] Council OKs Public Safety Sales TaxPlan

[Steve Brandt]

As it is for some of you, online registration is a frustration for me
too.  That's mostly because I tend to forget my passwords.  But I get
online mailings from the Star Tribune only about once every other week,
and my delete key still works.  Many online registrations have a feature
that allow a user to refuse online junk mailings.  I wonder if Mike
Hohmann may have neglected to check that during registration.

For those looking for a reason to get mad at the Star Tribune, there
are better reasons.  One is the evaporation of Minneapolis coverage,
aside from City Hall, schools and crime.  During one two-week period
last spring when I measured, the ratio of Minneapolis crime news to
enterprise news (coverage other than City Hall schools and crime) was
about 15:1.  For St. Paul coverage, the crime-to-enterprise ratio was a
much more reasonable about 3:2.  That ratio distorts the metropolitan
area's image of Minneapolis, and it's unacceptable to me.  But I don't
run the place, and my internal lobbying falls on deaf ears.  So it's up
to you to make the noise, if there's anyone left out there who cares.

Steve Brandt
Star Tribune