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January 17, 2008 09:31 PM EST --
At Minnesota Public Radio we had a forum discussion on the environment (there will be more about this later). But even in this context, it was amazing how the economic slide made its way into the conversation. . . .
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December 30, 2006 03:43 PM EST --
We were sitting in the living room when the news anchor announced: Saddam Hussein was put to death. I had heard rumblings that it was “imminent”, “soon to happen”, . . .
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April 16, 2008 08:32 PM EDT --
(Caution, one word near the end could be considered naughty)
Many people can relate to too much overtime at work. The hours and days go by and there is no time to get anything else done. It was at . . .
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June 28, 2007 12:48 PM EDT --
Of course the debate is never over, this is politics after all. From the Minnesota Public Radio News Website, Supporters fall 14 votes short of keeping immigration bill alive in Senate:
The Senate drove . . .
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March 15, 2008 03:02 PM EDT --
Buyer's remorse is familiar to anyone who has voted in an election.
In an effort to get people to comment on this article, I offer the following scientific process of elimination.
Buyer's . . .
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February 13, 2007 11:35 AM EST --
From Minnesota Public Radio News feature Should Minnesota mandate cancer vaccine?:
Lawmakers at the state Capitol are debating whether to require 12-year-old girls to get a vaccine that prevents some . . .
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October 30, 2007 10:11 AM EDT --
Politics in all its notorious glory becomes a prop for this acute study of human dynamics as played out on the political field in Life's A Campaign , written by Chris Matthews, . . .
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August 21, 2008 07:35 PM EDT --
For any Minnesotans that are going to the State Fair this year. I will be volunteering at the Jack Uldrich for Senate booth (built like a front porch, I'm told). Located next to the kids playland and . . .
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April 23, 2007 08:52 AM EDT --
Recently both Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty asserted that today's high schools are obsolete.
Minnesota Public Radio News considers the premise in Special report: Is . . .
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December 18, 2006 08:50 AM EST --
Hello folks. Nothing like a little tea and some news. First things that caught my eye today:
Jets soar, Vikings crash That's got to sting. The article helpfully points out "Both the Vikings . . .
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January 15, 2008 09:38 AM EST --
Minnesota has one of the highest rates of binge drinkers. And young people are dying, just this morning comes a report of a North Mankato-area young man who died from what authorities suspect is alcohol . . .
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January 15, 2008 05:21 PM EST --
The salt. The plowing. The winter. They take their toll on Minnesota roads. Then you have the complaints that not enough money is being spent on transportation infrastructure.
If you are a Minnesota . . .
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March 12, 2008 09:06 PM EDT --
Both parties began purging moderates in the mid-seventies.
Richard Nixon was a moderate, but also a war hawk, much like John McCain is today. Ronald Reagan led the charge to change that reality in . . .
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June 26, 2008 10:22 PM EDT --
Mr. Lucky's signs (written about in my last post ) got me to thinking ...
Just what signs have you seen that stand out... that make you wonder... that say something more about who we are?
American . . .
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September 19, 2006 10:44 AM EDT --
According to a study, it doesn't really matter if you believe you approach politics with reason. From Minnesota Politic Radio's feature This is your brain on politics*:
Researchers at Emory University . . .
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February 13, 2007 08:59 AM EST --
According to Fox News, Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. . . .
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March 23, 2008 05:24 PM EDT --
In the Democratic party, the two groups at odds are the Clinton Democrat, and the Ted Kennedy old guard progressive.The Clintonian Democrat is known for bringing down the debt, and other things that the . . .
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September 13, 2008 02:46 PM EDT --
A commentary ran in todays Star Tribune in favor of PRT, personal rapid transit. The following is my counterpoint that I wrote. It won't make the paper, my stuff never does.
The commentary on . . .
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November 05, 2008 08:30 PM EST --
In my State of Minnesota, one retired moderate (Ramstead) was succeeded by a partisan Republican, which makes Congress worse (more partisan) in my book. I know that most of the defeated moderate Republicans . . .
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January 16, 2008 03:49 PM EST --
MN's tranportation spending woes go way beyond bridges. Read this story on potholes and the money that isn't being sunk into them.
Minnesota Public Radio's network of people like yourself . . .
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