Bluestem Prairie

Bluestem Prairie is a hip (but not cynical) rural magazine for those who prefer take their corn with a progressive chaser and tongue planted firmly in cheek.

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Finding community: Morris student Taylor Barker sees freedom to marry as match for rural values

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

Pausing over breakfast at Don's Cafe in Morris, 20-year-old University of Minnesota student Taylor Barker shares his passion for the spirit of rural community that the moderate independent student discovered while attending the liberal arts college in Stevens County.

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M4M's legislator of the day, Joe Radinovich announces yes vote on freedom to marry

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

Another Greater Minnesota Democrat in the House has announced his decision to vote "Yes" on Karen Clark's bill to legalize the freedom to marry.

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Farm laborers deserve the same rights as other workers in our state's economy

By Dale Moerke, Bluestem Prairie

I spent some time yesterday watching the Minnesota Ways & Means committee debate the proposed minimum wage changes. While there are many things about the debate that caused a spike in my blood pressure, I am really concerned about those who think farm workers do not deserve the same rights as other workers in our state’s economy.

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Open veins of Big Stone County, Minnesota; or, the idea of order in Ortonville

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

In a recent radio interview broadcast by KDIO, Ortonville mayor Steve Berkner inveighed against "intimidation tactics" that had supposedly by used by "special interest" opponents of the Strata Mining Corporation's plan to open a granite quarry in a cow pasture that contains some of Big Stone County's namesake granite outcroppings.

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Preferred Sands of Minnesota touts "maintaining and sustaining" while Wisconsin site's runoff woes continue

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

The chief refrain repeated by the sorrowful violins of the lobbyists for Minnesota's sand mining industry and its allies is that if the state legislator puts additional safeguards in place for our water and communities, the industry will fail to thrive in Minnesota as it has in Wisconsin.

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