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.

Hutchinson, Minnesota

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Scary MN: Do GreenStep Cities mean Pawlenty was totally a United Nations secret operative?

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

Over at True North, Bluestem reads in Environmental Agenda 21 Program gets 86’d in Crystal:

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Tony Cornish: police officers and guns, not coaches and sports, for Minnesota's schools

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

If Cornish--who loves the limelight--spoke out about Big Ten coaching salaries before, we haven't found it.

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December 26, 2012: Mankato and Santee, NE to remember 1862 mass execution of Dakota men

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

While some conservatives have spent the last few months pissing and moaning about how the proposed social studies standards spend too much time "focusing" on the treatment of indigenous people in the United States' westward expansion, the 150th anniversary of the largest mass execution in American history is a cold slap of fresh air to that ideological battle.

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That awkward moment when we discover Tony Cornish's ignorance about Israeli school security

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

The last time Tony Cornish gained attention from wanting to combine education and firearms was the first anniversary of America's most lethal spree shooting, the tragedy at Virginia Tech. In 2008, Star Tribune staff writer Pat Doyle reported in Bill would allow students with permits to carry weapons on MnSCU campuses:

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Nobody ever expects the Ag Act of 1949: Farm Bill politics to mug milk drinkers and producers

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

For months, Collin Peterson and Tim Walz have roaming the countryside warning Minnesotans that we need to pass a five-year Farm Bill.Senators Klobuchar and Franken did their bit in the upper chamber by passing the Senate version, and the House Ag committee got its work done months ago.

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