The biggest frustration for a stadium supporter is other stadium supporters
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UPDATE: Minneapolis mayor and city council president narrow Minneapolis sites to Metrodome
Star Tribune columnist Jon Tevlin talked to state Rep. Dean Urdahl, R-Grove City, about the video of systematic cruelty to chickens at Sparboe egg factories.Arab Spring continues outside the headlines
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Obviously that headline isn’t completely true, because if it’s not being reported, then how am I linking to reports? It’s more a case that our domestic concerns with the economy and the latest dumb things said during Republican presidential debates have pushed the Arab Spring off the front pages and maybe even to the hidden places where a bit of looking is necessary. Continue Reading
Let it fail and do nothing
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Update: Hurrah!
Good news: the deficit supercommittee looks set to fail. Yes, I see the stock market is down a bunch today. I don’t care. Failure is good. Sometimes, a bad deal is better than no deal. This isn’t one of those times.
What we learned from Tuesday’s elections
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Did we learn anything from [Tuesday’s] elections, or are we just having one happy day after a good night? dan.burn’s post last night and the attached comments have the many good results, and I suspect a few got missed in there. Are there any broader lessons?
Minnesota Nice at 99 Percent protest march
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Not to say this was a well behaved group, but the protest march through downtown Minneapolis Saturday stopped at red lights and crossed on the green. You might guess the police had things under control, except I didn’t see police, and looking through the photos and videos I made, I still didn’t see any. Continue Reading
Foreclosure protest blocks intersection by US Bank
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Some protesters from Occupy MN set up tents in a downtown Minneapolis intersection near the occupied Government Plaza. The intersection of 6th St. and 2nd Av. S. is by the US Bank headquarters. My wife happened to be passing and recorded some video. This was recorded on a phone in noisy conditions, so the sound is rough.
The Key(stone) to solving some problems
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I was running an information table at a public event Saturday like I did a bunch of times this summer and Fall for my senate district DFL. This was for OFA and the Hayden campaign for the special election Tuesday, though I doubt that makes a difference regarding my point. Well, maybe it does, because I was trying to help President Obama get reelected and that’s where I’m going with this. Continue Reading
Occupy MN one week in
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I went to Occupy MN Saturday, which marks the start of the second week. I posted video last week after learning how to operate the camera and how to do the most minimal editing. This time … actually I still mucked one up. Anyway, I have more people stating why they’re participating. Continue Reading