edited by: Sally Jo Sorensen,
Minnesota Editor
"Our Executive Board spent eight hours screening nine of the current candidates for governor," said George Plautz, President of AFSCME Council 65. "After hearing their views" [...]
Former GOP state Rep. Ron Erhardt of Edina is exploring a run for his old House seat as a Democrat.
“I’m looking to run. I raised money earlier in the year,” said Erhardt today in a telephone interview with PIM.
Erhardt, a moderate, spent nine terms in the House. When Republicans controlled [...]
Two school districts in southwest Minnesota have signed on to the YES! Program, administered by the Southwest Initiative Foundation, that offers hands-on energy action projects to look at energy opportunities and issues in rural Minnesota.
A recent report in the Worthington Daily Globe noted that Windom [...]
Minnesota Speaker of the House and DFL gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher has collected another union endorsement, this time from the American Federation of State, County and Muncipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 65, which represents 13,000 employees in greater Minnesota.
"Our members worry about how to pay for health care or whether [...]
AFSCME Council 65 has endorsed House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher for governor.
This comes a day after she picked up Local 49 (operating engineers). She also has the backing of MAPE, the second-largest state employee union.
The big one looming is still Education Minnesota. If Kelliher can pick up that [...]
I'll be dividing my time this weekend with Netroots MN and the Minnesota Farmers Union convention, so posting will be light. Here's an article from the Farmer about the latter event:
Minnesota Farmers Union is having their annual state convention Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November' [...]
The Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch hotel in Beaver Creek, Colo., site of a $113,753 Xcel board of directors retreat
DENVER — With St. Paul–based Xcel Energy on pace to [...]
Chris Coleman is speaking right now, and the first round of panels will follow him. If you're here, drop in and use this post as an open thread for what you're seeing and hearing.
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Posted in Video Tagged: News Busted [...] Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is again the rage in 2009, from which I quote below. Industrialist Henry Reardon is before a court of the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources.
"Are we to understand," asked the judge, "that you hold your own interests above the interests of the public?
"I [...]
“Crafty” detainees in Iraq have taken to taunting members of the Wisconsin National Guard about the successes of Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre.
As if Iraq weren’t already riven enough with its own internecine antagonisms, prisoners there under U.S. military guard are siding with Minnesota in [...]
Harry Reid plans a key procedural vote in the Senate this weekend, apparently trying to follow Nancy Pelosi’s footsteps in jamming ObamaCare down the throats of a skeptical chamber before members can hear from their constituents. Unlike Pelosi, however, this vote will not be on the bill itself, or even [...]
I don’t think I’ve ever asked this before. But, I’m curious who you all are. I don’t really do much in the way of advertising, though maybe I should. (I’ve said before, putting together the blog is a way for me to keep up with what’s going on.) I get [...]
House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher is getting her second union endorsement for governor in as many days (and her third so far), this one from the 43,000-member Greater Minnesota American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 65, Minnesota Public Radio’s [...]
The National Cooperative Business Association has sent an advisory to co-ops that the most recent health care bill outlined by Senate Democrats still use the word CO-OP for possible new health insurance companies. Hold on a minute, says the NCBA.
The Senate language refers to “Consumer Operated [...]
Some commenters on this site have indicated they have no problem with MN's governor rarely being in MN, dealing with MN's business, because the state' [...]
After Bloggergate, another Liberal Blogger tied to North Star Liberal has shut its doors.
Brian Falldin has deleted all of his site content. Here is the screen shot:
[...]ALSO: Bad news for the economy; racial tensions are either rising or falling in Owatonna; and lutes.
[...]Brietbart to release more ACORN tapes before the election!
Breitbart: There’s a lot of hypocrisy and the dust has settled for ACORN and at the end of the day they’ve recognized that Eric Holder, the Attorney General, has not initiated an investigation into ACORN after we now have seven tapes. [...]
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair lost his shot at the European Union presidency Thursday, when the UK withdrew its support for his nomination at a meeting of the group’s 27 leaders in Brussels. Current Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy won the job.
[...]WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington’s struggle over healthcare reform — President Obama’s top domestic priority — now is within days of a historic turning point.
[...]Not only has North Star Liberal closed its doors, but DFL Blogger Political Muse, Eric Austin, has called it quits.
Here’s Eric’s Post:
I recently joined with five other bloggers who I count as friends in the hope that we could create a different kind of blog. A blog that was [...]
From Citizen's Council on Health Care:
ALERT - ObamaCare Debate Friday with Vote on Saturday
Call Tomorrow by 5:00 p.m. EST! (try Saturday too in case they answer)
DIRECT Phone and Fax Numbers for Congress
U.S. Capitol Switchboard - 202-224-3121 - Toll-free numbers
11/19/09 email from U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell's office [...]
Many True North contributors and readers have been patrons of Keegan's Irish Pub for several years. Over those years, there have been many a Thursday night where our drinks were delivered to the patio by the lovely, charming and always professional, Sarah. Well, Sarah is moving on to bigger and better things and her Keegan's' [...]
Yesterday MDE posted information about a scrubbed post by a new Liberal blog North Star Liberal. Now, today North Star Liberal has shut its doors.
Where did they go?
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