The War on Light Bulbs? MN Rep needs to go...
Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 08:14:03 AM PDT
Those of us steeped in Minnesota and/or wingnut politics know the name Michele Bachmann. The first-term Congresswoman from the suburbs of St. Paul has been a reliable source of misguided policy, but her latest effort is the kind that should be of concern to independent voters: repealing the phase-out of incandescent light bulbs out of concern for personal freedom and pollution.
More after the jump...
Revisiting (and supporting) the value of IRV
Thu Oct 12, 2006 at 07:45:51 AM PDT
A recent
diary that trumpeted a pro-IRV initiative in Minneapolis sparked an interesting debate. Most posters (including myself) supported the idea, while a pair of people spoke of IRV's downsides. I am concerned that those downsides were misrepresented or perhaps overstated, though I trust the posters had the best of intentions.
I hope this diary will either help those latters Kossacks find a new understanding, or give others good reasons to take their concerns with the appropriate grains of salt.
All the news that's fit to snip
Sat Sep 23, 2006 at 06:32:20 PM PDT
Tonight I logged on to the Star Tribune (Minneapolis) website and decided to read
its take on the supposed death of Osama bin Laden. What I read--and what I was optionally not supposed to read--really got me to thinking about how much news is actually left on the newsroom floor, figuratively speaking.
Olbermann 1, Rumsfeld 0: US editorials weigh in
Fri Sep 01, 2006 at 07:55:44 AM PDT
A day after our DKos hurrah for the sage words of Keith Olbermann, comes a raft of editorials from newspaper boards across the country, all calling Don Rumsfeld on the carpet for the latest in a long series of hollow defenses of the indefensible. I'll start with a quick review of my hometown paper's editorial, and will offer a few links to other editorials nationwide.
Star Tribune honors the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Sun Oct 02, 2005 at 08:28:19 AM PDT
In Sunday's OpEx section of the Star Tribune (Minneapolis), there is a fine reprint of the "Flying Spaghetti Monster" letter to the Kansas State School Board (
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5644842.html). For those keeping score at home, the print version gives the letter greater prominence than the website version.
While this letter is not news to many liberals with e-mail accounts these days, it makes a great impression alongside the Strib's broader Sunday discussion of evolution versus intelligent design. If fundamentalists want to see God every time science teachers are forced to explain the possibility of an "intelligent designer," then I'll be teaching my daughter to think of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Star Tribune: there is time for blame
Mon Sep 12, 2005 at 08:06:47 AM PDT
On Sunday, the Star Tribune's reader representative, Kate Parry, ran an
excellent column that summarized the disgust we have been feeling over the government's bungling before, during and after Katrina:
I have never seen our readers so angry....
The Star Tribune, which for two weeks has offered stories and photos that have made us weep over the human toll of this catastrophe, must not fail these readers in holding government accountable for a massive failure of leadership that contributed to the death toll.
Stories that lay bare the flawed response before, during and after the hurricane must be put on equal footing with the wrenching stories of human catastrophe as the coverage moves forward...
More after the break...
Sproul shadow pops up in Minn.--push for this story
Fri Oct 22, 2004 at 07:19:48 PM PDT
