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Sally Jo Sorensen publishes Bluestem Prairie for those who prefer take their corn with a progressive chaser.
The chief refrain repeated by the sorrowful violins of the lobbyists for Minnesota’s sand mining industry and its allies is that if the state legislator puts additional safeguards in place for our water and communities, the industry will fail to thrive in Minnesota as it has in Wisconsin. Continue Reading
When Tessa Hoffman Schweitzer received a mail piece from Minnesota for Marriage targeting Matt Schmit, her state senator, the divorced mother turned to social media to object to the notion that the freedom to marry would harm children. She urged friends in the district to call Schmit and ask him to vote yes, happy to have Schmit’s number readily at hand, courtesy of the anti-freedom group. Continue Reading
Bluestem had some errands to do in Montevideo Saturday and so joined about 75 other people at the Minnesota For Marriage (M4M) road show rally in the parking lot of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. Continue Reading
A divorced single mother in St. Charles, who supports the freedom to marry, received a mailer yesterday from Minnesota for Marriage that she shared via Facebook. Continue Reading
As Bluestem drafts this, the Legislative Audit Commission is meeting to approve evaluation topics for 2013. Continue Reading
Like many teenage girls, Naomi Wente once wrote out a list of the characteristics she sought in a spouse: intelligence, compassion, political involvement. Continue Reading
After a long day of rehabbing the rural Big Stone County farmhouse they’ve purchased together, Rebecca Terk and John G. White share stories and gumbo at the kitchen table in Terk’s home in Clinton. The couple, who will marry this summer, also share a core belief in the freedom to marry. Continue Reading
One of the best-known (and liked) lobbyists at the Minnesota State capitol is John Kaul, whose candid photos capture the essence, drama and frequent exhaustion of the legislative process. He’s also a pretty decent documentary filmmaker who explored the life of Minnesota’s first woman state supreme court justice. Continue Reading
Yesterday, followers of conservative pundit Michele Malkin registered their outrage at Google’s decision to feature Hugo Chávez on the search engine’s home page doodle. Continue Reading
During last fall’s debate over the amendment to restrict the freedom to marry, one of the spokesters for Minnesota for Marriage (M4M) compared the tactics of Vote No supporters with Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. M4M quickly repudiated the claim, but has revived the trope in news materials for April 7 church-based organizing. Continue Reading