Typical School Lunch

No lunch for you!

February 12, 2014

There was a story in the news recently that goes something like this: When a 12-year-old Texas boy went to eat breakfast this week at his middle school a cafeteria worker took away the meal and tossed it in the trash — all because his meal account was 30 cents short. This didn’t happen in […]

If only PolyMet knew now what it knew then

February 4, 2014

One of the very best ways, my friends, to evaluate what someone says is to see what s/he said before. We’ll get into that in a moment, but first a brief reprise of things written here previously. I have written before, on a couple of occasions, about PolyMet’s hopes and dreams for the flow of […]

Michelle Rhee

Cheaters sometimes win

February 3, 2014

The heartwarming tale of a woman who overcomes her past as a cheater

The DNR’s cold comfort

February 1, 2014

You shouldn’t worry, because they have it covered!

Company Men

January 30, 2014

Those fellows in the suits want you to cede a lot more than just your time.

The great DNR tent revival show

January 29, 2014

Came to RiverCentre on January 28th

Words designed for eating

January 28, 2014

The water model is a joke

Talk to the experts!

January 25, 2014

But who are these experts, anyway?

Free at last! Free at last!

January 22, 2014

The Viking stadium is litigation-free today – Michele Kelm-Helgen

These men shovel dirt II

January 21, 2014

It is Tuesday, end of the business day, and the Supreme Court has still not done its duty and dismissed the request of three citizens of Minneapolis to enforce both the Minneapolis charter and the Minnesota constitution. And while I think that plaintiff Doug Mann and his co-petitioners have made a good constitutional case, some […]

Tempest, meet Teapot

January 17, 2014

More fodder for Ben’s sheltered workshop

These men shovel dirt

January 14, 2014

On this man