How serious is Big Energy, about going green?

July 23, 2019

Judging by what Xcel Energy is doing, here in Minnesota, it would seem that they are quite serious indeed. As Xcel Energy prepares a filing to close its last coal units in Minnesota, a lesser-known provision of the settlement announced (in May) commits the utility to energy savings equivalent to another power plant. The agreement […]

by Dan Burns

Stauber and Emmer to save the day for Twin Metals

July 16, 2019

Take this, sulfides opponents! Members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Western Caucus, including Eighth District Representative Pete Stauber are seeking an investigation of what they’ve termed an “Obama Administration scandal-plagued land grab in northern Minnesota.” Stauber, caucus chairman Paul Gosar of Arzona, and Minnesota’s Tom Emmer, are seeking a U.S. House investigation into Obama […]

by Dan Burns

Useful idiots

July 12, 2019

In the Strib (the paper edition) yesterday, July 11th, the editorial board of the Largest Newsroom in Minnesota! penned a genuine stinker about dropping the reciting the pledge of allegiance before meetings of the city council in St. Louis Park. It stuns me that an event of such little consequence could inflame so many people, […]

by Steve Timmer

Getting rid of student debt would be great, but…

July 9, 2019

There has to be something for those that don’t have any.

by Dan Burns

Natural law is in the eye of the beholder: his name is Mike Ebnet

July 2, 2019

Fellow Edinan Mike Ebnet got some ink in the letters section of the Strib: Here’s how I interpret that book excerpt and natural law A couple of things surprised me about a June 23 letter about the June 16 excerpt from “The Conservative Sensibility,” a new book by Washington Post columnist George F. Will. One, […]

by Steve Timmer

The Twin Metals/Trump family relationship is all over the news

June 27, 2019

But why now?

by Dan Burns

PolyMet scores a hat trick!

June 26, 2019

O, what a tangled web we weave . . .

by Steve Timmer

William Beyer wins the coveted Spotty ™

June 23, 2019

For understanding the difference between natural and positive law

by Steve Timmer

Skipping down Memory Lane with PolyMet

June 22, 2019

If you get the right pollution regulators, they are your defenders, not your regulators

by Steve Timmer

A Minnesota Congressman is in over his head

June 21, 2019

Big surprise: The National Republican Congressional Committee, which is the official campaign arm of the House GOP, has gotten lacerated in recent weeks over its chaotic PR efforts and shabby fundraising—so much so that a nasty dispute burst into the open between committee chair Tom Emmer and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in […]

by Dan Burns

Wrong again, about Trump this time

June 18, 2019

But I still think at some point he’ll flee

by Dan Burns

Wishing those behind Minnesota’s pro-choice lawsuit very, very well

June 11, 2019

From late May: Abortion rights supporters say they’re launching a legal strike on abortion restrictions in Minnesota, as laws governing the procedure expand across the country. A coalition of women’s and abortion rights groups, along with the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, announced a lawsuit in St. Paul on (May 22). They said a 1995 […]

by Dan Burns