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March 17, 2021

No to corruption and pollution

by Steve Timmer
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Trump voters

March 15, 2021

My take.

by Dan Burns
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High-stakes standardized testing, this year? WTF?!!

March 3, 2021

This is quoted from an article dated a couple of weeks ago. I looked around this morning, and the administration has not pulled back. The Biden administration chose a pro-testing advocate, Ian Rosenblum of Education Trust New York, to announce the decision that states must administer the federally mandated tests this spring… Joe Biden said […]

by Dan Burns
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Regarding the Equal Rights Amendment in Minnesota

February 22, 2021

Thinking back, I suppose that it was in late 1976 that I had public speaking class, sophomore year in high school. I liked that one about as much as the majority of kids do – I’m pretty sure that speaking in front of groups remains the #1 human phobia – but I wanted A’s in […]

by Dan Burns
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A win for the environment in a Minnesota court, for a change

February 17, 2021

After recent decisions regarding Enbridge Line 3 in particular, this was good to see. Wins for the environment equal wins for the people, even if some of the people never have come around to understanding that. The Minnesota Supreme Court (Feb. 10) issued a ruling overturning a prior Minnesota Court of Appeals decision that held […]

by Dan Burns
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Minnesota has another Crazy Michelle in Congress

February 8, 2021

It’s not quite the same. Former Rep. Michele Bachmann has just one “l” in her first name, while Rep. Michelle Fischbach’s parents went with the far more common spelling. That said, there was this: Two Republicans of the Minnesota Congressional Delegation, Reps. Michelle Fischbach and Jim Hagedorn, joined the six members of the Senate and […]

by Dan Burns

The newspaper landed with an extra-heavy thud on Sunday

February 7, 2021

Katherine Kersten gives even ordinary bigots a bad name

by Steve Timmer

Lost in translation – Part Two

February 6, 2021

On the mistake of giving the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency “flexibility”

by Steve Timmer

Lost in translation

February 2, 2021

The proposed MPCA rules will damage the ability of Indian tribes and environmental nonprofits to enforce the Clean Water Act

by Steve Timmer
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Parsimonious twittery in the Minnesota Senate (and House) – Part Two

January 31, 2021

Hjalmer, I hear you, but . . .

by Steve Timmer

Parsimonious twittery in the Minnesota Senate

January 30, 2021

And now in the House, too!

by Steve Timmer

The power to pardon in Minnesota should be the governor’s – continued

January 25, 2021

The pardon power is the ancient prerogative of the executive

by Steve Timmer