Saturday, June 30, 2012
In other news from around the region, Dakota County residents react to Supreme Court decision on Obamacare, and three juveniles charged in the Lakeville School scandal plead guilty.
You can't be in front of your computer 24 hours a day, so each weekend, Patch reviews the most important recent developments from throughout Dakota County. Here's a look at stories that first appeared on this site, or of Patches covering nearby cities, that may interest or affect you. To read the full stories, just click on the headlines. Dakota County Up for $1.4 Million in Federal Disaster Relief The county could get money to recover from a severe storm that ripped through on June 19, damaging roads, uprooting trees and inundating the Miesville Ravine Park Reserve. Southeast Metro Reacts to Supreme Court Ruling Residents, local health care providers and politicians weigh in on the Supreme Court decision that President Obama's '…
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Residents, local health care providers and politicians weigh in on the Supreme Court decision that President Obama's 'Affordable Health Care Act' does not violate the Constitution.
At a Starbucks Coffee in Lakeville on Thursday, two men were huddled over a laptop computer, a game of cribbage set to the side. "This is an outrage," one man said to nobody in particular. "I'm moving to Canada," the other replied. "You can't. They have government-run health care, too," the first man said. "Well what the heck? I can't believe this—Roberts in the majority, for the bad guys," the second said as both laughed. Larry Kringle, the first man, and Jimmy Johnson, the second, were reacting to today's news that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care Act that President Barack Obama signed into law last year. Dubbed Obamacare, the decision rested largely on whether an "individual mandate" …
Thursday, February 2, 2012
W.P. Carey & Co. LLC. purchased the properties for nearly $153 million, according to Finance and Commerce.
New York-based W.P. Carey & Co. LLC. announced on Thursday that it purchased Blue Cross Blue Shield's Eagan headquarters and two other office facilities for nearly $153 million, according to Finance and Commerce. The investment firm entered a sale-leaseback deal with Blue Cross, which will remain in the buildings under a long-term triple net lease, according to a press release issued by W.P. Carey. The eight office facilities, located in Eagan, Aurora and Virginia, total roughly 1.1 million square feet. "The financing is an excellent exmaple of our ability and capacity to be a substantial long-term source of capital to companies looking to strategically grow their businesses," W.P. Carey Managing Director Gino Sabatini wrote in the press …
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Saturday, May 21, 2011
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is the largest employer in Minnesota to launch a bike share system for employee wellness.
BlueCycle, a new bike sharing program for employees at Eagan-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota was officially launched on Friday, May 20 to coincide with National Bike to Work Day. 3,500 Eagan Blue Cross employees will be able to check out a bicycle to ride between buildings, get some exercise before or after work and at lunch, run errands, or ride to a nearby restaurant for lunch. Eighteen bicycles have been distributed between four of the seven Blue Cross office buildings in Eagan and another two are available for use at their Virginia, MN office. BlueCyle has been in the planning stages for a about a year and is sponsored by the company's human resources and prevention groups. "We've had really high interest," says Sarah …
