This is my weekly column for the Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune.- It seems TPaw is already having issues with federal regulators, with his PAC. Doesn't seem like much, now. But what's that they say about the [...]
"Pesticides are everywhere...most people do not even know that -cide means 'to kill,'" said Becky Sheets of Staples, Minnesota. Sheets shared her story as part of Minnesota Clean Water Action's newly launched Ripple Effects campaign.MORE »
Byline TC Daily Planet [...]More than a dozen Lutheran congregations in Minnesota have vowed to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) after a vote in Minneapolis this summer to allow gay and lesbian pastors in committed relationships to serve as clergy.MORE »Byline [...]
The pen is mightier than the sword, something Governor Pawlenty proved earlier this year when, with the stroke of his pen, he used his line-item veto to eliminate the General Assistance Medical Care or GAMC program. GAMC is a state-funded health insurance program for [...]
A few don'ts for those attending Sister's Christmas Catechism at the Ordway: don't arrive late, don't chew gum, and don't wear anything you wouldn't wear to church. Sister will notice, and you may have to pay for your sins. Lateness and chewing gum could' [...]
A while back, the Daily Planet republished a series of columns by a former scenester writing for Rift Magazine under the name of Almostred. Returning to Minneapolis after many years out of town, he found the music scene—and specifically First Ave, where he worked [...]
Hot damn and hallelujah, yours truly is going to catch Junkyard Empire at the Cedar Cultural Center. I get a late start, but figure I'm still in good shape. Show starts at 8, it's a few minutes of. I shouldn't miss much of [...]
via tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com
An interesting look into the AP’s process for tracking down an early copy of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” and how the news service was first with the fact-check story. It’s like a Bond movie!
Posted via web from Mike’s stuff [...] An email is circulating in Republican circles stating that State Representative Randy Demmer, R-Hayfield, will be announcing his bid for the Republican endorsement for a second congressional bid in Rochester.
The email --which I have obtained through several sources--says:
Randy Demmer will be holding a press conference to [...]
- Today's Strib has a piece on Gov. Tim Pawlenty and state economist' [...]
This year, I'm certainly thankful for a political system that allows people to speak out in favor of or against just [...]
I could write paragraphs and paragraphs about Bernard-Henri Lévy’s bizarre and disgusting HuffPo article, in which he does a premature touchdown dance at the prospect of the freeing of convicted child rapist Roman Polanski. Were I to do so, I’d probably start by noting that Lévy [...]
(From Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture) [...] Hal Davis sends me this bleak time-lapse graphic of the deepening rate of unemployment across America since January 2007.
I link to it with my standard caveat — that population-based data projected in geographic space can be misleading.
It's the same point being made by dueling cellular network ads for Verizon [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for "Black Friday" (November 27).
1. On Wednesday, Jane Hamsher asked, "Why is HCAN Defending Blanche Lincoln From A Primary Challenge?" The answer: "[HCAN] will continue to operate as part of the Democratic party infrastructure, try to kill primary" [...]
The recent murders of four union members in Colombia underscores the tensions that remain with the doctrine of free trade since the WTO protests in Seattle ten years ago; a trade agreement with the South American nation remains stalled because of human rights [...]
I suppose the free market has a good solution for this problem, if we'd only let it work.
The state of Idaho has an estimated 846 gray wolves — compared to Minnesota's 2900.
Now, if you're thinking, "good, the wolf population in the west is starting to recover," you're not thinking [...]
