Granted, it's only a piddly 75 to 80 percent of the cost, but is Mayo's pitch for public money anyway comparable to what the Vikings/NFL squeezed out of Minnesota taxpayers? Christopher Snowbeck at the PiPress writes: "When announcing this week a plan for up to $6 billion in private and public investments focused on growth at the Mayo Clinic, Gov. Mark Dayton said he hesitated to compare the deal to last year's public financing package for a new Minnesota Vikings stadium. But the analogy was seized on Thursday, Jan.Today's Highlight in Local History:On June 12,1976, Waco Police Sgt. Roger Barrett was shot and stabbed to death after responding to a disturbance call at the downtown Greyhound bus station. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001.)In 1967, the Supreme Court, in Loving v.

The glass is very nice. Instead of having the traditional dividers that go from the top to the bottom, the panes of