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

Hey Ruk! Just look around!

August 27, 2013

The Ruk climbs Brimstone Mountain to see what he can see

by Steve Timmer

Dogs are eating the dogfood

August 25, 2013

That is intended for our seniors

by Steve Timmer

The Minnesota Capitol security picture show

August 25, 2013

The antics of the “no problems”

by Steve Timmer

The Weekly Wrap 8-24

August 24, 2013

The link to the image above came from Joe in the comments. Steve wrote a series of posts a couple weeks back about Twila’s latest episode of windmail tilting. In those posts a billboard sporting the above stockphoto featured prominently. Another reminder that in a capitalist society, everything is for sale, even angst. “Wait a […]

by Tony Petrangelo

How I Learned to Stop Worrying, Love the Bomb and understand the TBaalParty

August 22, 2013

It is hard to understand the TBaalParty political thought most of the time but there may be a hint in this poem by Edward Lear. Finding the analogy is an exercise for the reader. The Jumblies BY EDWARD LEAR I They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went […]

by Jeff Wilfahrt