A DIRTY
bit
It's budget season, that time of
year when city workers learn if
raises will materialize (probably
not). The stress may just have
them reaching for a lighter
and ciga...don't do it! Mayor
Greg Fischer is proposing to
charge employees who smoke a $50-permonth surcharge if they're on the city's
health insurance plan. The good news?
The city and its coffers encourage post-work
cocktails, especially in the downtown taxincrement-fnancing district that's supposed
to pay off the Yum! Center.
Q
SPOTTING
On a painted-blue concrete parking
bumper in front of City Hall.
(Send us an unexpected feur-de-lis spotting
of your own. It just might make a future issue.
editorial@loumag.com, subject: feur-de-lis.)
micro
poll
At Mall St. Matthews in
May, we asked 45 people
this question:
Ever seen The Big Lebowski?
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31 NO
14 YES
YES: "My favorite part is the bit about how
the rug got stolen and the Dude got so
attached to a living-room rug" — Jason
Bucek, 33, St. Matthews
NO: "But it's on my movie list. I'm a big Jeff
Bridges fan, and the movie's a classic" —
Tanner Smith, 20, Simpsonville
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