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Open thread July 4, 2012

Dan Crawford | July 4, 2012 5:23 pm

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  • save_the_rustbelt says:
    July 4, 2012 at 10:05 pm

    My health care hypothesis of the week:

    Most urban areas (excepting the biggest – NYC, LA, Chicago) will be dominated by two or three large integrated delivery systems (IDS) each with an obcessed focus on market share. Rural health care, except where it is a satellite function of the urban IDS, will deteriorate rapidly.

  • ddrew2u says:
    July 5, 2012 at 10:02 am

    CHICAGO LOCAL COLOR:
    Chicago sold it parking meter system to a private company for $15 million/year.  The city got a $1.15 billion up front payment — divided by 75 years that comes to $15 million/year.  Now that company wants something like $30 million a year back from the city: $14 million for a lost meter revenue due to construction and street closings over a 9 month period in 2001 — and $13.5 million for lost to handicapped placards in 2010.

    The company seems to think Chicago should give away its parking meter system for free plus $15 million a year extra.  The company grossed $80 million from meters in 2011. 


    http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/12299030-452/chicago-parking-meter-company-wants-more-money-mayor-balks.html 
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-rahm-emanuel-parking-meter-lease-20120630,0,1767149.story?dssReturn

  • ddrew2u says:
    July 5, 2012 at 11:34 am

    CHICAGO LOCAL COLOR:  
    Chicago sold its parking meter system to a private company for $15 million/year.  The city got a $1.15 billion up front payment — divided by 75 years that comes to $15 million/year.  Now that company wants something like $30 million a year back from the city: $14 million for a lost meter revenue due to construction and street closings over a 9 month period in 2001 — and $13.5 million for lost to handicapped placards in 2010.  
     
    The company seems to think Chicago should give away its parking meter system for free plus $15 million a year extra.  The company grossed $80 million from meters in 2011.   
     
     
    http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/12299030-452/chicago-parking-meter-company-wants-more-money-mayor-balks.html   
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-rahm-emanuel-parking-meter-lease-20120630,0,1767149.story?dssReturn

  • ddrew2u says:
    July 5, 2012 at 3:01 pm

    CHICAGO LOCAL COLOR:    
    Chicago sold its parking meter system to a private company for $15 million a year.  The city got a $1.15 billion up front payment — divided by 75 years that comes to $15 million a year.  Now that company wants something like $30 million a year back from the city: $14 million for a lost meter revenue due to construction and street closings over a 9 month period in 2011 — and $13.5 million for lost to handicapped placards in 2010.    
       
    The company seems to think Chicago should give away its parking meter system for free plus $15 million a year extra.  The company grossed $80 million from meters in 2011.     
       
       
    http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/12299030-452/chicago-parking-meter-company-wants-more-money-mayor-balks.html     
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-rahm-emanuel-parking-meter-lease-20120630,0,1767149.story?dssReturn

  • rjs says:
    July 6, 2012 at 7:10 am

    apparently there’s still a half million without power from inidiana to DC as of result of last week’s derecho; here’s an article on resulting pockets of “famine” in Wva…

    in a related story (as the drought & heat wave were both precipitated by the warm winter & lack of snow pack), here’s a photo gallery of the aftermath of the Waldo Canyon fires in Colorado…

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