January 2005
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Dave Heineman has done all sorts of jobs in Nebraska government. With
his boss leaving for Washington, he's about to get the big one.
Public transit exists to move people efficiently from Point A to
Point B. But if riders can be sold something along the way, that's
good too, right? A financial services firm, ING Direct, thinks so. The
company is offering to buy one morning's free ride for everyone using
a big city's rail system in return for being allowed to market its
services in the stations.
This was a survey that would have made Betsy Ross proud: hundreds of
flag experts studied the flags of 150 U.S. cities on the Internet and
rated them. And when the results came in last fall, Washington, D.C.,
could proudly boast that it has the best municipal flag in the land.
About $2,500 worth of checks was bouncing each semester before the high school in Grossmont, California, adopted a no-check policy.
California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi approved the merger of Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies Anthem and WellPoint in November, allowing the creation of the nation's largest health insurer.
