The trouble with family courts

June 3, 2015

Have you ever had someone come and ask your opinion about something, or to help him or her solve a problem, and then when you do, he or she turns on you and claims you’re wrong, and it’s all your fault? Mediating a tiff between your kids is a particularly good way to wind up in this situation; sometimes they […]

by Steve Timmer

You want Dill on that Tomassoni?

May 20, 2015

[I’ve been indisposed and haven’t written much for a while. Sorry.] The close of the recent legislative session will probably set the bar for skullduggery on a number of fronts, not the least of which is the environment. HF 846, the odious Agriculture and Environment Omnibus Budget Bill contains a lot of policy in it — bad policy — […]

by Steve Timmer

Michelle’s pitch for martyrdom

May 1, 2015

You might learn something, or not

by Steve Timmer

Four persons of interest

April 29, 2015

I don’t know about the rest of you, my friends, but I have been absolutely riveted by Michael Brodkorb’s efforts to get to the bottom of the disappearance of Samantha and Gianna Rucki, missing now for two years. Interest in the case was revived by the Strib’s Brandon Stahl’s recent article about the disappearance of the […]

by Steve Timmer

Did you bring your toothbrush, Mr. Nathan?

April 29, 2015

If you read Brandon Stahl’s story in the Strib a week ago about the two missing teenage girls from Lakeville, and attorney Michelle MacDonald’s representation of the mother of the girls, or the story here remarking about the eerie equanimity with which the mother, Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, and her attorney bear the continued disappearance of the […]

by Steve Timmer

Do you know where the girls are, Michelle?

April 24, 2015

Just about the time you think the case of attorney Michelle MacDonald couldn’t get any stranger, you are proven wrong. MacDonald, the Republican candidate for the Minnesota Supreme Court in the election last November, is in the news again in a Strib story running under the hed “Lakeville sisters still missing two years after parents’ […]

by Steve Timmer

TIF-ed off in Edina! – part two

April 16, 2015

The Grandview redevelopment

by Steve Timmer

High-stakes hypocrisy

April 15, 2015

One thing’s for sure: Pearson and the other testing companies’ failures won’t end up getting them degraded like the teachers, principals and schools. That kind of accountability is for everyone else.

by Rob Levine

Looking upstream

April 14, 2015

A group of friends is enjoying a picnic on the bank of a pleasant river surrounded by woods. Birds are singing and there is a faint whisper from the breeze in the trees. The idyll is shattered when one of the friends shouts, “There’s a baby in the river!” He jumps in the river and wades out to […]

by Steve Timmer

When we last left Larry Klayman, bereft

April 9, 2015

When we left Larry Klayman at the courthouse door after his humiliating summary judgment defeat in the defamation action Klayman v. City Pages, Ken Avidor, et al., many of you, my friends, were probably inclined to think, “That’s the last we’ll hear about Larry Klayman!” I am sure that’s what the white whale thought that […]

by Steve Timmer

We come not to praise Klayman’s lawsuit

April 8, 2015

But to bury it

by Steve Timmer

The Cycle of Corporate Abuse

April 4, 2015

On mining’s toxic relationship with the Iron Range.

by Jennifer Tuder