Minnesota Fringe Festival

On the Minnesota Fringe

August 1, 2012

The Fringe Festival is quintessentially Minnesotan

Tom Harkin

Rasmussen used Minnesota State Grant to game financial aid regulations

July 31, 2012

Documents released by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Monday show Minnesota’s State Grant program for higher education was used by Rasmussen College to maintain its federal financial aid eligibility. A series of emails sent by Rasmussen executives demonstrate how money from the Minnesota State Grant program was used to artificially […]

Sanford and Son

Poverty isn’t good for ratings

July 31, 2012

Where did all the working class characters go?

Because shoulder-fired rockets don’t shoot down airplanes

July 31, 2012

People do!

Capella Tower

Capella University CEO gets paid while public money burns

July 30, 2012

$4.50 in profit and marketing per $1 of instruction

He ain’t my brother; he’s just a heavy

July 29, 2012

Bean feeds for Brodkorb

Who is Bill Glahn?

July 28, 2012

What are you hiding, Bill?

Minnesota State Capitol

Post-ALEC billmaking

July 27, 2012

The video

Isle Royale Wolf Print

Minnesota’s brutal wolf season (Part 1)

July 26, 2012

“we gots too many wolves in Mn.”

Indemnifying Cal

July 25, 2012

Indemnify: To secure someone against legal responsibility for his actions

elephant ears

Elephant ears at the county fair

July 24, 2012

The family has been working at the county fair to bring in extra money: husband fellaslipper parking vehicles, and son dudeslipper directing them. During a momentary lull in traffic the subject of politics came up. One of the other guys parking cars said he supported Sarah Palin. Fellaslipper asked, “You’re a working guy around my […]

North Shore River

Sulfide mining interest comes to the north shore

July 24, 2012

Auction includes new areas of exploration