When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar*

Oct28

October 28, 2021

A Gilbert and Sullivan character shows up at the Minnesota Court of Appeals

by Steve Timmer Stories
soil

Pesticides are killing the soil, and Big Ag has no problem with that

Oct27

October 27, 2021

Recent studies indicate that beneficial organisms in soil are being annihilated. “What this study really drives home is that pesticide use is incompatible with healthy ecosystems, across organisms, pesticide classes, and a whole set of different health outcomes, including death,” said Kendra Klein, senior scientist at Friends of the Earth and co-author of the study. […]

by Dan Burns Stories
covidmn

Hard to tell, where much of the COVID school money ended up

Oct22

October 22, 2021

From Oct. 20: After the pandemic shut down schools across the country, the federal government provided about $190 billion in aid to help them reopen and respond to the effects of the pandemic. In the year and a half since millions of children were sent home, the Education Department has done only limited tracking of […]

by Dan Burns Stories
cannabis

A polite suggestion for Minnesota’s marijuana parties

Oct12

October 12, 2021

For the greater good

by Dan Burns Stories

Undercover among America’s secret theocrats

Oct6

October 6, 2021

Jesus plus nothing

by Steve Timmer Stories
va

Checking out where the VA is at right now

Oct5

October 5, 2021

You may have seen this. Former President Donald Trump empowered associates from his private club to pursue a plan for the Department of Veterans Affairs to monetize patient data, according to documents newly released by congressional investigators. As ProPublica first reported in 2018, a trio based at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort weighed in on policy and […]

by Dan Burns Stories

Charles Dean is the latest Spotty ™ winner

Oct3

October 3, 2021

Anti-vaxxers ought to identify themselves

by Steve Timmer Stories

The Pioneer Press shines a bright, unflattering light on HCPA

Sep21

September 21, 2021

Who the [blank] is Woodstock Capital LLC?

by Steve Timmer Stories
mncapitol

Trying to figure out MN Senate Party of Trumpers

Sep21

September 21, 2021

Have they really decided they’d better move away from being so royally deserving of the “Party of Trump” moniker? Hard to say. I’m referring to their having picked Sen. Jeremy Miller (R-Winona) as the new Senate Majority Leader. He’s considered to be about the least extreme, selfish, and deranged member of the GOP caucus, there. […]

by Dan Burns Stories

The power to pardon in Minnesota should be the governor’s – continued – a reprise

Sep15

September 15, 2021

Judges always think they did it right

by Steve Timmer Stories
gasplant

Speaking of filthy fossil fuels boondoggles…

Sep13

September 13, 2021

The Nemadji Trail Energy Center (doesn’t that sound innocuous, even pleasant?) is planned for Superior, Wisconsin. Minnesota has a legal say because many of its customers will be in the northeast part of this state. They deserve better. We all do. The Minnesota Court of Appeals (August 23) upheld Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approval […]

by Dan Burns Stories

Kristen Boldon does not win a Spotty ™

Sep6

September 6, 2021

The group that is best at telling Black people what to think are white progressives

by Steve Timmer Stories