Dave Mindeman on his MNPact.org blog notes that Dakota County Commissioner’s plan to raise property tax rates for transit improvements after failing to obtain the final $20 million through a Federal appropriation : Republican U.S. Rep. John Kline has refused on principle to seek earmarked federal funding for Cedar Avenue, (Dakota County Commissioner Will) Branning [...]
Yesterday I read an article in the Star Tribune about how Joel Pourier stole more than $1 million from a charter school in Minneapolis. Pourier was hired by the school in 2002 as a finance director and was later promoted to executive director. When he applied for the position he listed on his resume that [...]
Today’s Must Read story comes from Newsweek’s Andrew Romano (here are the highlights) : Nothing is more important to Republican politicians these days than jobs and the deficit. Elect Republicans in November, as House Minority Leader John Boehner put it, we will put an end to this insanity. There’s only one problem with Boehner’s message: [...]
John Kline (R-MN-02) warned us on September 29, 2009 : Congressman John Kline, the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today strongly criticized legislation that would dramatically expand the federal government by eliminating the private sector-based federal student loan program and spending tens of billions of dollars on a range of [...]
The negative political ad was born on September 7, 1964 … The advertisement begins with a little girl (Birgitte Olsen) standing in a meadow with chirping birds, picking the petals of what appears to be a daisy counting each petal slowly. (Because she does not know her numbers perfectly, she repeats some and says others [...]
Did you know : Defense firms poured millions of dollars more into lobbying during the first two quarters of 2010, increasing expenditures by about 7 percent over what they spent in the first half of last year, an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics shows. Between April and June, only the financial services and [...]
New blog post: DFL CD2 Endorses Shelley Madore after she wins primary http://tqaey.th8.us
Tonight a DFL Congressional District 2 Central Committee meeting was held at Lakeville’s Heritage Library. The meeting was called after the results of the primary showed that Shelley Madore won over DFL party endorsed Dan Powers. The committee needed to vote this evening to see if Madore would receive the party endorsement. It was great [...]
During Gil Gutknecht’s ten year career representing the First District, his most insightful contribution was an observation on the failings of government, when he aptly called the US Senate “the graveyard of all good ideas”. Sadly, those words still ring true today. Roundtable readers may recall the Lessons Learned From Obstructing Food Safety discussion that [...]
Did you notice how many colleges in our area have nicknames featuring animals ? There are the Golden Gophers for Minnesota, the Bison for North Dakota State, the Jackrabbits for South Dakota State, the Hawkeyes for Iowa, the Badgers for Wisconsin … do you know John Kline’s favorite … anybody guess the Corinthian Colleges Cash [...]
MN Blue Blogs: Ten articles from Minnesota blogs
Graphic artist and blogger Mario Piperni, that's who. Amazing graphics, great stories.
What’s Happening in Congress, Rick Nolan Union News: 10 articles from national union blogs
