On the court rejecting a mining company permit

December 10, 2019

Now with a 12/11 update . . .

PolyMet permitting timeline

December 6, 2019

A companion to the eBook: Fourteen Years of Bullshit

abandonedfarm

Is Big Ag really trying to push traditional farmers under?

December 5, 2019

First, let’s assess the situation as it is now. – Most farms in the U.S. are still, technically anyway, traditional, family farms. Though the farmers’ kids, and even grandkids, are very often far from kids, age-wise, any longer. Economically, though, what those farmers do is determined by Big Ag and Big Ag-friendly (to say the […]

PolyMet: Fourteen Years of Bullshit, the eBook

December 2, 2019

With a link to free ePub, azw3, and mobi format copies, and as a PDF, too

mprbuilding

The long, erratic decline of MPR News

November 25, 2019

I remember when Minnesota Public Radio’s morning e-newsletter was called “Polinaut.” Back then their reporting in general really was a cut above that of corporate-owned “news” media. That is, it was more grounded in objective reporting of facts, and less in false equivalence and other forms of providing conservative spin. In retrospect, I can’t pin […]

hegsethtrump

A Minnesota lad keeps plunging deeper into the swamp

November 24, 2019

Pete Hegseth is from Minnesota. He did high school in Forest Lake. He tried for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2012, but lost to Kurt Bills. Bills went on to be obliterated, by something like thirty points as I recall, by Sen. Amy Klobuchar in the general. That Amy stomped Kurt, and Kurt […]

new nafta

Corporate Dems look to ram through “new NAFTA”

November 17, 2019

Contrary to what some may be claiming, this pretty much bites. “Not quite as bad as the old NAFTA” is not the same as “good.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at her weekly press conference (November 14) that a deal on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was “imminent,” and that it would serve as a template […]

Minnesota District 30A State Representative Nicky Zerwas

Who is the Most Online Minnesota Legislator?

November 7, 2019

An investigation

jenin

MN-04: Rep. McCollum could use attention and support on Palestinian rights

November 5, 2019

Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) introduced HR 2407, the Promoting Human Rights for Palestinian Children Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act, on April 30. It was referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee, and nothing has happened since. It does have 22 co-sponsors, including Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). This is nothing new for Rep. McCollum. For years […]

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-big-hail-mary-can-jack-kemp-save-the-gop-14110

Why did a Court of Appeals Judge ask if PolyMet’s dam was a Hail Mary?

October 29, 2019

It’s more of a Lazarus, really

Shannon Lotthammer: We don’t know where all that mercury is coming from

October 27, 2019

It’s a puzzle that the TMDL study would have answered, which is why it was scotched

Capitol

MN-01: Rep. Hagedorn kind of, kind of doesn’t, join pitiful GOP publicity stunt

October 27, 2019

Actually, I’m starting with something from an email I got from the Independent Media Institute. The overwhelming majority of media that most people read, watch and hear, simply put, is awful, in so many ways, and one of the biggest problems we face. Couldn’t have said it better, myself, which is why I quoted that. […]