Projecting the Minnesota House

November 2, 2016

Which party will control the Minnesota House in 2017 – UPDATED

The William and Ian reunion tour begins at Drinking Liberally

October 22, 2016

And you thought the Kiss reunion tour was big? This is bigger. On Thursday, October the 27th, Drinking Liberally’s Pre-Election Big Show will feature the long-awaited — and highly anticipated — reunion of William Davis and Ian Levitt (not shown above), formerly of the hit radio show The Best of Ian and William on AM950, The Progressive Voice […]

by Steve Timmer

Trump is right: The election is rigged — but in his favor

October 21, 2016

Professor Schultz’s recent article in The Hill

by David Schultz

Michelle MacDonald’s loose grip on the law

October 20, 2016

Specifically, Minn. Stat. sec. 211B.02 (2016)

by Steve Timmer

Jennifer Janovy for Edina City Council

October 19, 2016

And, of course, incumbent Mary Brindle, too

by Steve Timmer

Mourning opportunities lost, a reprise

October 18, 2016

Below the bubbles is a story I wrote in the wake of the 2014 elections and the DFL’s loss of the Minnesota House of Representatives. One of the things I predicted — although it wasn’t that hard — was this: My friends, you can look forward another [2016] election cycle just like the last [2014] one, only […]

by Steve Timmer

And Amy’s not a journalist, either!

October 15, 2016

And yet another update (10/19): The instances of people trying to divide the media from everyone else and decide who’s a journalist continue apace. Here’s constitutional lawyer Eugene Volokh in the Washington Post on CNN’s Chris Cuomo: “Also interesting is, remember, it’s illegal to possess these stolen documents. It’s different for the media. So everything you […]

by Steve Timmer

Who runs this burg, anyway? Part Two

October 13, 2016

In Part One, I described the outsized role in making policy held by the staff (well, and consultants, too) in a city like Edina, and in fact, in Edina. And I cautioned against stacking the city council with members who are themselves professional municipal technocrats, likely to be staff and developer oriented, rather than resident […]

by Steve Timmer

Who runs this burg, anyway?

October 12, 2016

Playing Sim City with other people’s money

by Steve Timmer

Drinking Liberally talks politics

October 8, 2016

Well, even more than usual

by Steve Timmer

Who the [blank] is “The Northstar Leadership Fund?”

October 3, 2016

Update: It is always gratifying when a newspaper article is published subsequently that confirms what you wrote, here about the EpiPen price gouging. This lit piece arrived in my mailbox this weekend: It was sent, not by Anselmo’s campaign, but by a group that lists its address as on the 48th floor of the IDS […]

by Steve Timmer

Here a VAT, etc., part three

October 3, 2016

See the update at the foot of the story. In the first and second stories in this series, I described how the international trading system is stacked against US manufacturing workers, and that much of it is our own fault. Or more accurately, it is because we want it that way. The neo-liberal elites who […]

by Steve Timmer