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Advise and dissent as Rock-Tenn Community Advisory Panel faces Port Authority plans

By Dan Gordon , Special to the TC Daily Planet

There’s a jury in St. Paul that meets every two weeks. Unlike other juries, it deliberates in public, rather than behind closed doors. It meets in a church instead of a courtroom. It passes judgment not on criminal cases but on fuel sources. It’s called the Rock-Tenn Community Advisory Panel (RCAP) and, like a jury, it’s subject to the same manipulations, distortions, and conflicts of interest that surface around criminal proceedings. MORE »

Things People Say

Drinking Mississippi mud

By Mark Twain

“The man they called Ed said the muddy Mississippi water was wholesomer to drink than the clear water of the Ohio; he said if you let a pint of this yaller Mississippi water settle, you would have about a half to three- quarters of an inch of mud in the bottom, according to the stage of the river, and then it warn’t no better than Ohio water – what you wanted to do was to keep it stirred up – and when the river was low, keep mud on hand to put in and thicken the water up the way it ought to be. MORE »