There’s something rotten in Minnesota, a reprise

September 6, 2020

A story from September of 2019

Never mind Denmark, there’s something rotten in Minnesota

September 16, 2019

Another revelation in the PolyMet scandal came on Friday with the disclosure of another set of emails between the abysmally-named Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the equally-inaptly-named federal Environmental Protection Agency. With friends like them, the environment needs no enemies. The hed for the article on the Strib website is New email deepens mystery over […]

by Steve Timmer

“It’s a giant money suckhole”

March 19, 2016

Probing the IRRRB

by Steve Timmer

Who appointed Jim Nobles to be Pontius Pilate?

February 17, 2015

Here’s the lede from a Strib article about Legislative Auditor Jim Nobles’ performance at a House committee hearing on Tuesday, February 17th: An expansive report chronicles widespread problems during MNsure’s first year of operations, and concludes that achievements at the health insurance exchange were outweighed by failures. Nobles thinks it wasn’t worth it. You can read […]

by Steve Timmer