Minnesota’s investment follies

August 2, 2019

Word comes via the Star Tribune that Minnesota’s investment board has invested in Glencore, Antofagasta, and Enbridge. Swell. In addition to the teensy conflict of interest it presents (all are supplicants to Minnesota agencies), this makes some members of the environmental community, well, gag, on a general level. Some people are asking for divestiture. As […]

by Steve Timmer

The giant freakout continues, unabated, part five

April 17, 2019

When is a proclamation not a proclamation?

by Steve Timmer

Can you extort an extortionist?

June 12, 2017

I don’t think so

by Steve Timmer

Minnesota’s constitutional crisis

June 5, 2017

We’ve been here a lot lately

by David Schultz

What color is your hat?

December 12, 2015

You only get to wear one color

by Steve Timmer

Put your best mine forward

October 26, 2015

In order to help him figure out whether copper-nickel sulfide mining is the cat’s pajamas or the worst idea in the history of ideas, Governor Dayton is going to visit two mines: one chosen by the mining romantics, and one by the people who choose to plan more than six weeks into the future, the […]

by Steve Timmer

Wherein JLew furnishes an argument for abortion rights

July 21, 2013

Accidentally, of course

by Steve Timmer

Repealing the Civil War

June 27, 2013

One Supreme Court decision at a time

by Steve Timmer