The newspaper landed with an extra-heavy thud on Sunday

February 7, 2021

Katherine Kersten gives even ordinary bigots a bad name

by Steve Timmer

Lost in translation – Part Two

February 6, 2021

On the mistake of giving the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency “flexibility”

by Steve Timmer

Lost in translation

February 2, 2021

The proposed MPCA rules will damage the ability of Indian tribes and environmental nonprofits to enforce the Clean Water Act

by Steve Timmer
Capitol steps

Parsimonious twittery in the Minnesota Senate (and House) – Part Two

January 31, 2021

Hjalmer, I hear you, but . . .

by Steve Timmer

Parsimonious twittery in the Minnesota Senate

January 30, 2021

And now in the House, too!

by Steve Timmer

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

January 25, 2021

The pardon power is the ancient prerogative of the executive

by Steve Timmer
tina

Tina signs on to going after Hawley, Cruz

January 22, 2021

Well, I’ll be darned. The Democratic senators — Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Tina Smith of Minnesota, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Tim Kaine of Virginia and Sherrod Brown of Ohio — said the question for the Senate to determine is not whether Cruz and Hawley had […]

by Dan Burns

A parable for our times

January 19, 2021

This is where we are with the Boogaloo Bois, Three Percenters, Oath Keepers, their related cosplay idiots

by Steve Timmer
bwca

More underhanded crap from the sulfides-heads

January 18, 2021

These rules changes have been in the works at the Minnesota Pollution “Control” Agency for a while. It’s all getting a legal review, now. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) wants to avoid enforcing water quality standards that control pollution from mines, coal plants, and other polluters! MPCA has proposed rules to deregulate Minnesota mining […]

by Dan Burns

“A major tipping point”

January 10, 2021

Reenacting the Beer Hall Putsch

by Steve Timmer
rioters

What a great chance for Senators Klobuchar and Smith to show some real gumption

January 8, 2021

I wrote this, on another blog, when Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) made her POTUS run official, in 2019. AKlo’s political approach has always been to pick the safest position on every issue, and stay there as if welded down. It’s made her electorally invulnerable in Minnesota, and has absolutely nothing to do with being a […]

by Dan Burns
rotunda

Kind of pithy remarks on the 2021 MN lege

January 6, 2021

First of all, “pithy,” which means having substance and point, contains an element of sarcasm, here. My record, when it comes to any kind of politics-related prognostication, is, in a word, wretched. The best thing is that I am comfortable suggesting that the DFL caucuses in both houses can legitimately be termed “progressive,” and that […]

by Dan Burns