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Under the spreading chestnut tree

June 5, 2013

For all too long now the false allegory of government expense as a family budget has held sway. It crops up all the time, the couching of government balancing its budget like a family at the kitchen table. There is a better metaphor for government. It is much more like a black smith’s shop. A […]

by Jeff Wilfahrt
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Minnesota State Capitol

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American Crystal Sugar and the Minnesota Orchestra

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Both are sad stations of the cross of labor crucifixion

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In the Minnesota Orchestra labor dispute

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While plugging his ears and singing “la la la la”

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Dave Senjem decides to face the freight train

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Votes against marriage equality

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Representative Peggy Scott

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Photos from the Capitol on the historic day of the House vote

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On marriage equality, that is

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