A bit of a reality check on the Great Resignation

January 11, 2022

I have to confess that when I started seeing news about the Great R, I maybe allowed myself to get a little carried away (though only in my own thoughts, so no harm done). I’ve long yearned to see real movement toward a place where everyone who wants to – a large majority, to be […]

by Dan Burns

Enbridge’s mega-con

January 3, 2022

Well, now. As Republican state officials insist that Canadian oil pipelines are necessary to lower energy costs for American consumers, the fossil fuel giant operating those pipelines is suddenly citing the climate crisis its products are creating as a rationale for raising those prices higher, according to new documents reviewed by the Daily Poster… Last […]

by Dan Burns

A charter school feeds the hand that bit it

December 17, 2021

Hmong College Prep Academy

by Rob Levine

Ethanol fuel should just be killed dead

December 16, 2021

This article is a really good look at where this issue is currently at. If you’ve pumped gas at a U.S. service station over the past decade, you’ve put biofuel in your tank. Thanks to the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS, almost all gasoline sold nationwide is required to contain 10% ethanol – a […]

by Dan Burns

Those black flags on Trumper poles

December 5, 2021

They’re not what I thought

by Dan Burns

I was wrong about MN Senate Republicans

November 29, 2021

A while back I posted here about the possibility that members of the slim Party of Trump majority in the Minnesota Senate had decided to start being more, in a word, sane. As it turns out, nope. No way. Minnesota Republicans are reigniting debate over the emergency powers used by DFL Gov. Tim Walz during […]

by Dan Burns

Community schools are a great plan

November 18, 2021

So how will deformers try to stop them?

by Dan Burns

You can tell the Page Amendment is a Trojan horse

November 15, 2021

Because it is so poorly thought out

by Steve Timmer

Sulfate-impaired water everywhere

November 10, 2021

But the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency just noticed it

by Steve Timmer

Playing with fire

November 8, 2021

The Minneapolis School Board considers a dangerous resolution

by Steve Timmer

Time for the bloated, flailing political polling industry to crash and start over

November 6, 2021

What got me going on this was the latest ridiculous high-profile political polling debacles, namely, the California recall and the New Jersey gubernatorial election. But it’s been a long time coming. I’m going to assume that as someone intelligent, knowledgeable, cool, and righteous enough to be visiting this website, you recall the various examples to […]

by Dan Burns

When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar*

October 28, 2021

A Gilbert and Sullivan character shows up at the Minnesota Court of Appeals

by Steve Timmer