Sulfide mining stories reprise

September 12, 2013

Stories here at LeftMN

On comments – Old candidates never die edition

September 10, 2013

Commenter Ned observes, in response to Old candidates never die, a story about the latest installment in Tom Horner and Tim Penny’s serial biliousness in the Sunday Strib: I’ve wondered why the StarTrib publishes these guys. Their analysis is always so shallow or deceiving. I have worked in job training programs for many years; their […]

by Steve Timmer

MN Elections Info site: New Feature!

September 9, 2013

Maps of every congressional and legislative district

by Tony Petrangelo

Old candidates never die

September 7, 2013

They just lose their marbles

by Steve Timmer

Minnesota’s Congressional Delegation, Syria and 2014

September 7, 2013

[Editors Note: typically I do a Weekly Wrap™ on the weekends. This week I got about 600 words into the first item about the Syria vote and thought to myself (and here’s where the editor’s note goes even more meta), “self, you should just make this it’s own stand-alone post.” So that’s what this is. […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Looking at some features of the Minnesota Elections Info site

September 5, 2013

Tuesday I introduced the Minnesota Elections Info site. Today, I’m going to spend a bit of time on some of the features of the site. There are currently four different sections to the site; General elections results, Primary elections results, a general elections Graph and a timeline of Minnesota electoral history. Let’s go over these […]

by Tony Petrangelo

On comments – defending Brimstone Mountain edition

September 4, 2013

We rarely ever hear from detractors here at LeftMN; perhaps we don’t have many. [chortle] But we got a critical comment to The forces of grievance and resentment weigh in. Aaron from Duluth (to distinguish him from our, or formerly our, Aaron) writes: Hmmmm, the Shebandowan mine opened in 1972, CEPA was enacted in 1988. […]

by Steve Timmer

LeftMN Projects: Minnesota Elections Info

September 3, 2013

Because those of us here at LeftMN are so dedicated to bringing you the best in Minnesota political coverage, we have a number of projects in the works to help us do just that. The first of these that we are revealing is the Minnesota Elections Info site, which can be found at: elections.left.mn [Update: […]

by Tony Petrangelo

On comments – Labor Day edition

September 2, 2013

It is probably pretty discouraging to leave comments here at LeftMN. But we do read them, including the two hundred-odd spam comments we get every month, so it is kind of a “wheat and chaff” thing. But persevere, kids, because — as today — we sometimes even get around to publishing a couple, and they are always […]

by Steve Timmer

The forces of grievance and resentment weigh in

September 1, 2013

I’ll have a double Brimstone, neat

by Steve Timmer

The Weekly Wrap 8-31

August 31, 2013

♣ Sad news earlier this week. Minneapolis School Board member Hussein Samatar, pictured above, succumbed to leukemia on Sunday at the age of 45. Besides the family he leaves behind, Samatar’s legacy includes the African Development Center he founded, and whose mission is to: African Development Center works within the African communities of Minnesota to […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Remembering the parade of heroes and charlatans

August 28, 2013

Goal reached!

by Steve Timmer