More Ranked Choice Voting Responses

October 21, 2013

I will be moving on to other aspects of Ranked Choice Voting, seriously. But before that I’m going to post a couple more comments on the issue of majority winners. If you’re just tuning in, my first post on the issue was “Ranked Choice Voting Question Time: Majority Winner,” and the first comment I’m posting […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Should the mayor run the schools in Minneapolis?

October 20, 2013

Then what are all these people yammering about?

by Steve Timmer

The 60s are the root of all evil

October 20, 2013

Things were much better in the 30s and 40s

by Steve Timmer

DL Teacher Appreciation Night Introduction

October 19, 2013

Teaching kids to swim

by Steve Timmer

The Weekly Wrap 10-19

October 19, 2013

♣ Third quarter fundraising numbers are in, but the FEC’s website is still screwed up from the shutdown, so I’m going to crib this info from DailyKos Elections (all monies in thousands of dollars): CD Name Party Raised Self Fund Self Loan Spent CTD CoH MN-02 Mike Obermueller (D) $73 $0 $0 $46 $204 $119 […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Wondering what just happened in Washington?

October 18, 2013

Oh, it ain’t so funny, if you ain’t got the money, in moneyland..

by Jeff Wilfahrt

GOP can’t keep markets out of the tank for more than 5 years.

October 17, 2013

Why does the market crash every 5 years when the GOP has the White House?

by Jeff Wilfahrt

CSPAN and things that go bump in the night

October 17, 2013

Tip O’Neil takes on the midnight empty chamber innuendo of Newt Gingrich

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Tea Party Shutdown Intermission

October 16, 2013

Tea Party Congressional Caucus takes a crisis break until January

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Responses to selected feedback on my last Ranked Choice Voting post

October 16, 2013

I got a few responses to my previous post on Ranked Choice Voting that deserve to be addressed, so that’s what I’ll do. Starting with: The author here has a few misunderstandings of the process. The Minneapolis rules provide for batch elimination for all the candidates that cannot mathematically win. This will weed out the […]

by Tony Petrangelo

A template letter for those represented in Congress by a Republican

October 15, 2013

A Wisconsinite gives voice to the government shutdown, a template for the progressive mind

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Letter to the editor MN CD 2 electorate will never see

October 15, 2013

John Kline, votes to shut down government over the debt he voted to create

by Jeff Wilfahrt