Sex, Lies and Leadership

June 19, 2015

What we learned from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program and sex abuse cover-up in the Catholic Church

On comments: Welcome, David Schultz

June 19, 2015

A few days ago, Hamline professor David Schultz published his first commentary here: Whatever happened to the liberal Democrats? You should read it if you haven’t. Read it again if you have. There were comments to David’s piece, uniformly positive, and remarking how he would spiff the place up. I got emails from readers, too, to […]

by Steve Timmer

Right Wing thinking explained with Art

June 18, 2015

The mobius thinking of the right wing in pictures

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Governance in the Dismal Swamp

June 17, 2015

In recent months, controversy has swirled around the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board (the “IRRRB”) and the people who populate and control it: Iron Range legislators. There was another story by investigative reporter Jennifer Bjorhus in the Star Tribune on Sunday, June 14th – another eyebrow raiser – involving IRRRB loans to a Mountain […]

by Steve Timmer

2015 Minnesota hPVI

June 15, 2015

The forth of edition of Minnesota’s most beloved Legislative district metric

by Tony Petrangelo

Whatever happened to the liberal Democrats?

June 13, 2015

The first LeftMN commentary by Professor David Schultz

by David Schultz

The Separation of Powers

June 10, 2015

Is on everyone’s lips

by Steve Timmer

Fahrenheit 451 revisited

June 6, 2015

Someone sent me this video and asked my reaction. It’s a promotional video made by Corning that purports to show what our future will be like. If our future is a complete dystopian nightmare, that is. Even the title is chilling to me. The video takes us through a day, dawn to dusk, of a prototypical […]

by Steve Timmer

The trouble with family courts

June 3, 2015

Have you ever had someone come and ask your opinion about something, or to help him or her solve a problem, and then when you do, he or she turns on you and claims you’re wrong, and it’s all your fault? Mediating a tiff between your kids is a particularly good way to wind up in this situation; sometimes they […]

by Steve Timmer

Ryan Winkler headlines Drinking Liberally on June 4th

June 1, 2015

Most of you know that Minnesota Rep. Ryan Winkler is leaving the Legislature and moving to Brussels, Belgium to follow his wife and family to her new position. He’s apparently going to split his time between Brussels and Minneapolis, but will be away too much to continue to serve in the Minnesota House. His departure […]

by Steve Timmer

You want Dill on that Tomassoni?

May 20, 2015

[I’ve been indisposed and haven’t written much for a while. Sorry.] The close of the recent legislative session will probably set the bar for skullduggery on a number of fronts, not the least of which is the environment. HF 846, the odious Agriculture and Environment Omnibus Budget Bill contains a lot of policy in it — bad policy — […]

by Steve Timmer

Michelle’s pitch for martyrdom

May 1, 2015

You might learn something, or not

by Steve Timmer