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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Silica sand hearing exposes fractures between grassroots, local officials and industry, labor

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

While Southeastern Minnesota's bluff country from Red Wing to the Iowa border and the placid little Minnesota River from the metro to Mankato may have been strangers to the sort of divisions with which mining politics have cursed Northeastern Minnesota, a joint hearing on frac sand mining appears to have lifted that blessing.

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A field guide to the Minnesota legislature's February 19 frac sand hearings

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

Alarmed by the transformation of Southwest Wisconsin into sand pit corridors of Mordor, Minnesotans began organizing grassroots resistance to industrial scale silica sand mining in 2011, demanding that city and county government place moratoria on new mines and processing.

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Focus of frac sand fight, Winona becomes unscheduled stop for DC-bound Earth Train

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

An "Earth Train" carrying 70 Minnesotans heading to Washington to ask President Obama and his administration to lead a clean energy transformation made an impromptu stop in Winona to meet local activists--and pick up another passenger.

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Shall we pick song lyrics by a Hawaiian music artist for Minnesota's State Poem? No and yes

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

A new bill would make "Minnesota Blue"by Keith Haugen our state poem. Bluestem objects on aesthetic grounds, while a student critic, Joshua Preston, praises the text as a post-modern masterpiece.

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