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Sally Jo Sorensen publishes Bluestem Prairie for those who prefer take their corn with a progressive chaser.
Reasonable individuals might fancy that Minnesota’s tea party patriots, who fret about spending and burgeoning government, would be spending January scrutinizing plans to extract tax dollars or new government-sponsored gambling revenue to fund a privately-owned stadium.
They’d be wrong.
It was no surprise to anyone when Senate Minority Leader Dave Senjem was pushed aside after his caucus rose to power following the 2010 elections. PIM reported in early October 2010 that Geoff Michel, David Hann and campaign top dog Amy Ko Continue Reading
Bluestem’s editor attended Hamline University back in the days before it housed a School of Business, and so we read the tales of the tiff between the private, nominally-Methodist private college’s business wing and Tom Emmer at some distance.
A reader suggested that Bluestem look into what the impact of the meltdown of MF Global might be on Minnesota’s rural economy. I haven’t come up with a definitive answer to this question, but perhaps the business press will look into it.
It’s no wonder that Rochester-based development company McGhie & Betts representative Jeff Broberg was booed by the crowd that packed the a Winona County Planning Commission meeting Thursday night.
While the Occupy movement was launched in New York City, one index of its contagiously popular appeal is the appearance of Occupiers in places like Rochester, Duluth and Brainerd.
Yesterday at the Minnesota Independent, editor Jon Collins broke the news that the Corrections Corporation of America’s private prison in Appleton, shuttered for want of business from the state of Minnesota, may reopen.
In Private prison company’s growth went hand-in-hand with political influence, Collins reports:
One shibboleth shared by conservative legislators (and the corporations that enable them) in attacks against the middle class is that wages and benefits must be gouged in order for American businesses to remain competitive in a global marketplace.
The Republican Party is changing. First it was the Emo Senator breaking ranks with the Borg by supporting local decision-making on school levies.
As a dedicated chronicler of the right’s congenital inclination to paint itself as the victims no matter who it picks on, Bluestem is getting some good belly laughs from the “What if” school of mythmaking reacting to Continue Reading