Joni Bennett endorses Ron Erhardt

April 4, 2016

Joni’s a former member of the Edina City Council

by Steve Timmer

A small victory for bees

April 3, 2016

Paying attention to the little things

by Lois Schadewald

David Schultz wows ’em at Drinking Liberally

April 2, 2016

What’s up with the Millennials, anyway?

by Steve Timmer

“Nobody wants to talk about the good things it does”

March 22, 2016

Good things like this, eh, Ruk?

by Steve Timmer

“It’s a giant money suckhole”

March 19, 2016

Probing the IRRRB

by Steve Timmer

Where have you gone, Gov. Kasich?

March 18, 2016

The Strib ed. board turns its lonely eyes to you

by Steve Timmer

Ron Way endorses Ron Erhardt in 49A

March 13, 2016

Ron Way, former Assistant Commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, official with the U.S. Department of Interior, staffer on Capitol Hill in Washington, reporter for newspapers, including the Star Tribune, and frequent contributor to the Strib and MinnPost, is a resident of House District 49A in Edina. Ron supports Representative Erhardt for re-election. Here […]

by Steve Timmer

Endorsing Ron Erhardt

March 8, 2016

The other members of the SD49 delegation endorse Ron

by Steve Timmer

Norm Coleman won’t vote for the Donald

March 5, 2016

And it’s all Barack Obama’s fault!

by Steve Timmer

The answer is a TIF

March 1, 2016

Here’s the question: If you take a student from every grade in the Edina Public Schools and lay them end to end, and then you do it again, what do you get? Well, you get a TIF. That’s how long a TIF at Grandview would last. Perhaps obviously, I am just talking to my Edina […]

by Steve Timmer

Another bridge to the past

February 19, 2016

Shawn Otto published a perceptive piece in the Huffington Post yesterday, February 18th. It’s about how a campaign needs a forward-looking story to capture voters’ attention and support. I have heard Professor David Schultz make the same point in several presentations, including one he made at Drinking Liberally a few years ago. Elections are, after all, […]

by Steve Timmer

LeftMN endorses Bernie Sanders for President

February 14, 2016

LeftMN is mostly devoted to state-level politics in Minnesota, and we ordinarily aren’t concerned with nomination contests for the office of President of the United States. However, with the Minnesota precinct caucuses coming up on March 1st, and because the LeftMN editorial board does have an opinion in the matter, we’re going to express it. [This endorsement […]

by Steve Timmer