Scary MN: Do GreenStep Cities mean Pawlenty was totally a United Nations secret operative?
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Over at True North, Bluestem reads in Environmental Agenda 21 Program gets 86’d in Crystal: Continue Reading
Tony Cornish: police officers and guns, not coaches and sports, for Minnesota’s schools
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If Cornish–who loves the limelight–spoke out about Big Ten coaching salaries before, we haven’t found it. Continue Reading
December 26, 2012: Mankato and Santee, NE to remember 1862 mass execution of Dakota men
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While some conservatives have spent the last few months pissing and moaning about how the proposed social studies standards spend too much time “focusing” on the treatment of indigenous people in the United States’ westward expansion, the 150th anniversary of the largest mass execution in American history is a cold slap of fresh air to that ideological battle. Continue Reading
That awkward moment when we discover Tony Cornish’s ignorance about Israeli school security
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The last time Tony Cornish gained attention from wanting to combine education and firearms was the first anniversary of America’s most lethal spree shooting, the tragedy at Virginia Tech. In 2008, Star Tribune staff writer Pat Doyle reported in Bill would allow students with permits to carry weapons on MnSCU campuses: Continue Reading
Nobody ever expects the Ag Act of 1949: Farm Bill politics to mug milk drinkers and producers
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For months, Collin Peterson and Tim Walz have roaming the countryside warning Minnesotans that we need to pass a five-year Farm Bill.Senators Klobuchar and Franken did their bit in the upper chamber by passing the Senate version, and the House Ag committee got its work done months ago. Continue Reading
Governor Dayton and Speaker Thissen foresee frac sand mining as a key rural issue in 2013 session
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At today’s pre-session press briefing, PIM’s Charley Shaw asked what issues the Governor and caucus leaders saw as important for rural Minnesota. The AP reports in Bipartisanship still elusive at Minn. Capitol: Continue Reading
On commercialization of the naming of blizzards: the Weather Channel and Minnesota tradition
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Several Facebook friends first raised the objection today: what’s up with giving winter storms names? Continue Reading
Will MNGOP drop all pretense and run News Corp Veep for Government Affairs against Franken?
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While corporations across the country have fled the ranks of the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Republican Party of Minnesota may be poised to embrace its inner corporatist. Continue Reading
Minnesota House ALEC members: a look at the minority caucus committee commendations
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In Capitol 10: Legislation you won’t be seeing in 2013, Politics in Minnesota staff asked its Capitol insiders what won’t be on the agenda: Continue Reading
PRB’s lump of Christmas coal: CP Railway looks to sell DM & E tracks west of Tracy, MN
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The Associated Press and other news services are reporting Canadian Pacific gauging interest in railroad tracks. From the Albert Lea Tribune: Continue Reading