The Great Literacy Food Fight III

March 18, 2023

The science of reading is evidence based, and evidence-based literacy is the science of reading

by Steve Timmer

The Great Literacy Food Fight II

February 22, 2023

A headlong rush into a territory mapped out by the subsidiary of a private equity company

by Steve Timmer
northernmn

MN lege: 2022 races of particular interest, Districts 1-14

September 17, 2022

First in a series

by Dan Burns
draz

MN lege: Daudt gets spanked by the Draz

July 5, 2021

From July 1: Sitting lawmakers will no longer be able to work as lobbyists, after a Republican amendment taking aim at House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, was adopted nearly unanimously in the House and later approved by the Senate as part of a broader tax bill. Offered by state Rep. Steve Drazkowski, R-Mazeppa, the […]

by Dan Burns
mnsenate

MN lege: Loving these DFL pickup opportunities, Part 2

September 29, 2020

Districts 22-28

by Dan Burns
capitol

MN lege: Loving these DFL pickup opportunities, Part 1

September 21, 2020

Districts 1-21

by Dan Burns

The car salesman from Crown gets his feelings hurt

January 9, 2015

Hey Kurt, where the hell is my road?

by Steve Timmer

Let the little children suffer

April 9, 2014

By bringing them to me

by Steve Timmer
US Net Change Map

The Weekly Wrap 2-16

February 16, 2014

♣ The Republican Minority Leader of the Minnesota House, Kurt Daudt, will not get a free pass to endorsement this year: Oak Grove Mayor Mark Korin said today that he has filed the campaign paperwork and will seek the GOP endorsement. Korin is serving his fourth year as mayor of Oak Grove and runs an […]

by Tony Petrangelo
The United Watershed States of America

The Weekly Wrap 1-5

January 5, 2014

♣ Minnesota State Senator John Pederson has dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination for the sixth congressional district. Said Pederson: The bottom line is the schedule that the campaign demands is something that we weren’t willing to be able to invest in at this time. So… he didn’t realize that a campaign […]

by Tony Petrangelo

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

May 10, 2013

On marriage equality, that is

by Steve Timmer

Mechanical penis etiquette at the Capitol

January 7, 2013

It belongs on the front

by Steve Timmer