Ethanol fuel should just be killed dead

December 16, 2021

This article is a really good look at where this issue is currently at. If you’ve pumped gas at a U.S. service station over the past decade, you’ve put biofuel in your tank. Thanks to the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS, almost all gasoline sold nationwide is required to contain 10% ethanol – a […]

by Dan Burns

Those black flags on Trumper poles

December 5, 2021

They’re not what I thought

by Dan Burns

I was wrong about MN Senate Republicans

November 29, 2021

A while back I posted here about the possibility that members of the slim Party of Trump majority in the Minnesota Senate had decided to start being more, in a word, sane. As it turns out, nope. No way. Minnesota Republicans are reigniting debate over the emergency powers used by DFL Gov. Tim Walz during […]

by Dan Burns

Community schools are a great plan

November 18, 2021

So how will deformers try to stop them?

by Dan Burns

You can tell the Page Amendment is a Trojan horse

November 15, 2021

Because it is so poorly thought out

by Steve Timmer

Sulfate-impaired water everywhere

November 10, 2021

But the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency just noticed it

by Steve Timmer

Playing with fire

November 8, 2021

The Minneapolis School Board considers a dangerous resolution

by Steve Timmer

Time for the bloated, flailing political polling industry to crash and start over

November 6, 2021

What got me going on this was the latest ridiculous high-profile political polling debacles, namely, the California recall and the New Jersey gubernatorial election. But it’s been a long time coming. I’m going to assume that as someone intelligent, knowledgeable, cool, and righteous enough to be visiting this website, you recall the various examples to […]

by Dan Burns

When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar*

October 28, 2021

A Gilbert and Sullivan character shows up at the Minnesota Court of Appeals

by Steve Timmer

Pesticides are killing the soil, and Big Ag has no problem with that

October 27, 2021

Recent studies indicate that beneficial organisms in soil are being annihilated. “What this study really drives home is that pesticide use is incompatible with healthy ecosystems, across organisms, pesticide classes, and a whole set of different health outcomes, including death,” said Kendra Klein, senior scientist at Friends of the Earth and co-author of the study. […]

by Dan Burns

Hard to tell, where much of the COVID school money ended up

October 22, 2021

From Oct. 20: After the pandemic shut down schools across the country, the federal government provided about $190 billion in aid to help them reopen and respond to the effects of the pandemic. In the year and a half since millions of children were sent home, the Education Department has done only limited tracking of […]

by Dan Burns

A polite suggestion for Minnesota’s marijuana parties

October 12, 2021

For the greater good

by Dan Burns