MN17A: Did house candidate Tim Miller channel Marco Rubio’s awkward water bottle moment?
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A number of readers have brought our attention to the way Continue Reading
MNSOS Billboard Edition: Severson campaign gets more flack about curious message in design
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University of Minnesota graphic design associate professor Carol Waldron, who specializes in color theory and typography, isn’t the only one to see a curious message in Dan Severson’s design choices in his campaign for Minnesota Secretary of State (BSP noted Waldron’s take in U of M prof picks up on curious visual message in MNGOP Dan Severson’s SOS campaign logo). Continue Reading
Johnson to Red River Valley: Mark Dayton’s administration is “trying to kill the Sandpiper”
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The Star Tribune’s Ricardo Lopez reports in GOP’s Johnson accuses Dayton of slighting outstate Minnesota that the struggling Republican gubernatorial candidate J used the recent decision by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to ask Enbridge to consider alternative routes for the Sandpiper pipeline as an example of Dayton’s supposed nelgect of Greater Minnesota. Continue Reading
Clueless MNGOP confuses Community Action of Minneapolis with 25 other groups across state
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Like many Minnesotans, we read Alejandra Matos’ story in the Star Tribune with consternation.
In Audit scolds Community Action of Minneapolis for misspending hundreds of thousands of dollars, she reports: Continue Reading
Torrey Westrom voted to cut child protection services funding in 2011
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Child protection services politics in Minnesota have long been contentious, with cries for reform going up when a child dies, as is the circumstance with the death of Eric Dean,Continue Reading
Minnesota’s labor movement can celebrate some key 2014 organizing and political victories
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While our last post, Labor Day is the new Memorial Day: former lawmaker John Kriesel retweets the confusion, suggests that some Americans on twitter are drinking a strange brew of amnesia and mission creep, the labor movement in Minnesota can savor some victories in 2014. Continue Reading
Bircher questions Emmer and Mills’ purity, but willing to live with expediency to win elections
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It’s not just DFL state chair Ken Martin who is calling Republican congressional candidates like Tom Emmer and Stewart Mills III Tea Party extremists. Continue Reading
Cedar Summit Farm owners win case, coalition of utilities building CapX2020 must “Buy The Farm”
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Cedar Summit Farm is one of the success stories of Minnesota’s buy-local dairies, but as City Pages reported in 2013’s Cedar Summit Farms could be forced to relocate due to power line expansion, Florence and Dave Minar’s organic and grass-fed operation wasn’t compatible with the 345,000-volt line. Continue Reading
Stillwater cafe’s “minimum wage fee” part of failed industry effort for “tip credit”
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As we posted in Cafe charging “minimum wage fee” to “offset state increase of minimum wage for tipped employees,” the River Oasis Cafe in Stillwater charged diners an added $.35 cents on breakfast tab. Continue Reading
Cafe charging “minimum wage fee” to “offset state increase of minimum wage for tipped employees”
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A reader sent Bluestem the photograph of a tap from a restaurant in the east metro, to which a “minimum wage fee” of thirty-five cents has been tacked on to a fifteen dollar tab. Continue Reading