Miscellany 1-23

January 23, 2015

In a story here on January 21st, it was noted that the administrative law judge was denying the request of the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy to subpoena DNR and PCA witnesses for a hearing on the Sandpiper (“KXL Lite”) pipeline application. The story mentions that the DNR and the PCA were not parties to […]

by Steve Timmer

Making a record at the Public Utilities Commission

January 21, 2015

Update: January 28th: According to informed sources, the ALJ did not reverse himself and allow the subpoenas to issue. However, the DNR has apparently asked to testify, but the MPCA has not. It would be very interesting to know the communications that took place between the DNR and the MPCA, on the one hand, and […]

by Steve Timmer

Miscellany on MLK Day

January 19, 2015

Spitting in Martin’s eye

by Steve Timmer

Bloomington Ten exonerated!

January 18, 2015

On charges of “crimes against shopping”

by Steve Timmer

Miscellany 1-17-15

January 17, 2015

It frequently happens that an interesting item will come along that I would like to comment on or provide a link to, but it isn’t material for a whole story. That’s where the idea of Miscellany was born. It won’t be an aggregator, exactly, and I won’t do it with any predictable regularity. Each issue […]

by Steve Timmer

Are we marching to anywhere?

January 13, 2015

[See the updates below] Since this is a mostly-Minnesota website, and since I am a little conflicted about the meaning of the whole thing myself, I hadn’t planned to write about the massacre in Paris (because that it was it was) and the follow-up shooting at a kosher market that took additional lives (that was also […]

by Steve Timmer

The car salesman from Crown gets his feelings hurt

January 9, 2015

Hey Kurt, where the hell is my road?

by Steve Timmer

Is Bloomington a company town?

January 6, 2015

Or do #BlackLivesMatter?

by Steve Timmer

The car salesman from Crown

December 30, 2014

You want the undercoating, right?

by Steve Timmer

They shall serve as examples for all to see

December 26, 2014

The words of Bloomington city attorney Sandra Johnson still ring in my ears: “It’s important to make an example out of these organizers so that this never happens again,” Johnson said. “It was a powder keg waiting for the match.” If you go to the Bloomington website, you will see a note that the police […]

by Steve Timmer

Inspector Javert

December 24, 2014

In the last story about the MOA Black Lives Matter rally on the 20th, I suggested that Bloomington city attorney Sandra Johnson was the protagonist in a Greek tragedy, doomed by circumstances, but obsessed to carry on in the face of a fate that was obvious to everyone but her. That metaphor was completely wrong. She isn’t a tragic […]

by Steve Timmer

Barbarians breach the gate at the MOA

December 23, 2014

We must have revenge!

by Steve Timmer