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

TIFs are unhealthy for schools and other living things

March 29, 2015

Facing the TIF-industrial complex

by Steve Timmer

TIF-ed off in Edina!

March 27, 2015

Feeding the buzzard

by Steve Timmer

Working hard for the money

March 23, 2015

Although it has kind of died down now, there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth at the Legislature over the salary increases given by Governor Mark Dayton to his Commissioners, first by the House Republicans and their leader, Speaker Kurt Daudt, followed shortly thereafter by DFL Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, who persuaded […]

by Steve Timmer

Performing feats of legerdemain

March 18, 2015

There’s a big difference between a teacher’s rating on a flawed and invalid evaluation system and her “performance.” Just don’t try and tell that to local media.

by Rob Levine

Don’t listen to Doug, again

March 7, 2015

I haven’t written for a while; I hope to be better in coming days. I have some catching up to do. There is no better place to start than with an op-ed piece by Doug Tice that appeared in the Sunday, February 22nd edition of the Star Tribune. That’s a while ago, I know, but […]

by Steve Timmer

Tony, or your gut?

February 24, 2015

Don’t call Tony for the answer

by Steve Timmer

And along comes Terri!

February 22, 2015

Well, and Jenifer, too!

by Steve Timmer