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As Bluestem noted yesterday, the budget figures brought to the table by the Senate Majority Caucus were supplied by private firms suchs as Accenture, IBM and Deloitte (h/t to PIM Weekly Report).
The Star Tribune reported in Dayton: GOP plan comes up $1.2B short:
My friend Ted Fiskevold, a member of the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981, Twin Cities Chapter 13, and a fine photographer, took a solidarity road trip with Mark Froemke, president of the Western and Red River Valley Area Labor Council of the AFL/CIO, across the Midwest to document union action across the region. Continue Reading
Wisconsin family farmers rallied with pro-union forces yesterday to protest Scott Walker’s power grab that will erode the middle class. Continue Reading
The unrest in the Midwest, with labor and its allies rallying thousands to state houses in Wisconsin and Ohio, prompted my friend AudraLynn to post a joke on Facebook:
Q:What is the difference between a Tea Party rally and a Union rally?
A: The signs are spelled correctly.
My immediate thought was, “Republicans still hold tea party rallies?”
A quarrel within the ranks of America’s conservative effort to delay and derail last year’s health care reform will come to a head on Wednesday, February 16, when the House Health and Human Services Reform Committee takes testimony on Continue Reading
It’s no secret that Bluestem is a big fan of the Lewis and Clark Rural Water Project for southwest Minnesota and nearby corners of Iowa and South Dakota. For years, I been posting approvingly of the earmarks that Walz, Minnesota’s Senators and conservative Republicans like Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and Steve King (R-IA) have requested.
Photo: Walz at a 2010 town hall for veterans.
The Air Force News and other outlets in Gannet Media’s Military Times Network are reporting that Bachmann plan would cut veterans benefits:
No wonder why Scott Newman will talk to the Star Tribune, and not to the Associated Pres Continue Reading
In English-only bill is unnecessary but assures Drazkowski’s re-election, a recent column about anti-immigrant legislation sponsored by state representative Steve Drazkowski, St. Paul Press columnist Ruben Rosario observed:
News comes my way of the departure of Republican Party of Minnesota Chair Tony Sutton from his role as CEO of faux-Mexican eatery Baja Sol.