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On September 30th, the 18.4 cent per gallon federal gasoline tax is set to expire unless extended by Congress. Without the tax, the federal Highway Trust Fund would run dry, eliminating funding for mass transit and road projects. Continue Reading
Unless you were somehow connected to the urban farming movement, you had probably never heard the word “permaculture,” until very recently. Is it a long-lasting social trend? A medical technique that reverses baldness? Sorry, no.
According to Politifact.com, “…as of 2009, the net worth of the nation’s 400 wealthiest individuals exceeds the net worth of half of all American households.”
Planning in many American cities, suburbs, and rural towns for the past several decades has inexplicably but systematically excluded the oldest form of transportation in the books: walking.
From the first time I voted in 1968 until 1996, I had considered myself a Republican, although I frequently crossed party lines. But in 1998, I finally began attending the DFL Caucus.
There hasn’t been an update in our Progress on Our Doorstep series for a while, because the complexity of construction projects allows progress to happen for weeks witho Continue Reading
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture announced on Friday that Minnesota farm exports in 2010 reached $5 billion, equaling the amount of 2008, as rising global food shortages are putting greater demand on North American farm commodities.
Growing up with a farm background, I always felt bad for those folks whose families didn’t have access to field fresh produce.
It’s tough to argue to Americans raised on gasoline at 20 or 30 cents a gallon that the current price at the pump pushing $4 is too low. Continue Reading
Lake Pepin, the widest naturally-occurring twenty mile stretch of the Mississippi River, is facing an existential problem: in a few hundred years it may no longer exist.