The DNR and PCA don’t deserve a pass from the Supreme Court

July 25, 2020

Important cases are pending before the Minnesota high court

How do you drown-proof a mine? Part 3, a reprise

September 21, 2019

The denouement – and a prediction comes true

How do you drown-proof a mine? Part 2, a reprise

September 21, 2019

It’s still the question on everyone’s lips

How do you drown-proof a mine? A reprise

September 21, 2019

It’s the question on everyone’s lips

Children aren’t a special interest group, Eric

May 25, 2018

Trying to rejigger the Separation of Powers

What color are your herring?

May 20, 2018

Somebody might not get to see her dying mother. An ambulance might not be able to get through. A protester might get hurt. These and others are all reasons supporting the Elk River Republican Nick Zerwas’ bill to treat protesters blocking freeways more harshly than other violators. The scolds on the Strib’s editorial board are […]

Al Franken

Appointed Senators are actually good at re-election

December 11, 2017

In which the author takes down a Twitter hot taker

An unapologetic love letter to Historic Fort Snelling – a reprise

May 3, 2017

2017 note: The Minnesota Historical Society is trying again this year to get bond funding from the Legislature to renew and improve Historic Fort Snelling for its bicentennial year in 2020. o O o There was a crowd, just as large, on the other side of the parade grounds, too. Memorial Day 2016. Historic Fort […]

Welcome to LeftMN

November 14, 2016

There are some new readers here because of my Commentary in the Star Tribune (Monday evening on the website and in the Tuesday paper edition; please read it before continuing here) in support of Keith Ellison’s run for the chair of the Democratic National Committee. We’re glad you came over to check us out and hope […]

The dog in the manger

August 21, 2016

And the guy who wants to bunk in with him

Rep. Davids weeps

June 6, 2016

He liked being chair of the House Tax Committee

An unapologetic love letter to Historic Fort Snelling

June 2, 2016

  There was a crowd, just as large, on the other side of the parade grounds, too. Memorial Day 2016. Historic Fort Snelling, the crown jewel of the Minnesota Historical Society’s historic sites scattered throughout Minnesota, made a bond request to the Legislature to renew, refresh, and re-imagine the site in advance of its 200th […]