Congratulations, Minneapolis
By Mitch Berg
The scourge of plastic bags has been lifted from your lives.
Now, on to solving the worst-in-the-nation achievement gap, poverty, the worst-in-Minnesota crime rate (which, in the Camden and Near North neighborhoods, is up there with Baltimore and Detroit), the sagging business climate, the eroding infrastructure (notwithstanding the staggering amounts the city has spent) and the tense racial climte.
With the bag thing out of the way, it should be a breeze.
March 22nd, 2016 at 2:10 pm
Don’t shop in Minneapolis.
At least you have a choice. My county banned plastic and paper bags. I can’t shop in another county without boarding a plane — or ordering from Amazon.
March 23rd, 2016 at 12:17 pm
They’re simply going to push people from getting plastic bags with their groceries to buying plastic bags for their trash/dog poop/etc. needs. But it makes them feel good while their schools suck and their kids are in gangs, I guess.
March 23rd, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Are they including body bags in their ban?
March 24th, 2016 at 1:58 pm
Mpls council member: “Yes, that dike over there is leaking and about to break, but look at this cool hole I’m digging over here!”
Me: “Yeah, but what’s the symbolism that that hole is 6′ deep?”