I just saw a poll on the local witn.com site about the proposed dollar coin. It seems in this non-scientific poll people don't like the idea. Well it's time to do it anyway and if folks don't like it they can use a debit card. it costs too much to keep printing dollar bills. Perhaps a canada like system of 2 dollar bills with dollar coins.
In fac, it's past time to do this and perhaps while we're at it get rid of the penny.