Hubris and blandishments

July 21, 2015

It hasn’t been much in the news around here, but in more sentient parts of the world, notice has been made of the fact that the United States’ monument to the Cold War — the Runit Dome, or the Tomb, to the locals — is leaking radiation after having built a mere 35 years ago. Swell. This is […]

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

Looking upstream

April 14, 2015

A group of friends is enjoying a picnic on the bank of a pleasant river surrounded by woods. Birds are singing and there is a faint whisper from the breeze in the trees. The idyll is shattered when one of the friends shouts, “There’s a baby in the river!” He jumps in the river and wades out to […]

by Steve Timmer

A conversation before drifting off

February 2, 2015

A little political pillow talk

by Steve Timmer

Let there be holes in the ground, part two

October 1, 2014

Thus spake Mike

by Steve Timmer

Let there be holes in the ground!

September 5, 2014

Thus spake Mike

by Steve Timmer

Forever is a really long time

August 11, 2014

It’s even longer than 500 years

by Steve Timmer

Hiring more dingoes as babysitters

August 7, 2014

Many of you already know about the catastrophic — which seems almost too mild a word, under the circumstances — copper/nickel/gold tailings dam collapse in British Columbia. But if you haven’t, according to the Vancouver Observer, the Mount Polley mine’s tailings dam failed, and “dumped five million cubic metres of toxic waste near the Quesnel and Cariboo Rivers.” Oh, how […]

by Steve Timmer

When the going gets tough

July 11, 2014

The senior mining companies take a powder

by Steve Timmer

Get more from UMore – A UofM tragedy unfolds

June 23, 2014

Another in the money gets what money wants series

by Jeff Wilfahrt
Matt Entenza

The Weekly Wrap 6-15

June 15, 2014

KSTP/SurveyUSA released a poll last week that I will address in a future, standalone, post. In the meantime, The Wrap™ is here to scratch your Minnesota politics itch. ♣ Matt Entenza, candidate for state Auditor, filed a complaint this week against the incumbent Auditor, Rebecca Otto, with the Office of Administrative Hearings claiming that she broke […]

by Tony Petrangelo

It might be cheaper than mining

June 13, 2014

An alternative thought on Polymet mining

by Jeff Wilfahrt