Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Looks like I may have been premature last week when I declared that Governor Dunsel, er, Dayton, blinked during his game of chicken with the MNGOP over the State’s budget. It may be more accurate to say the Legislative leadership blinked. And that is disappointing.
One of the concessions Dayton demanded ...
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Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Governor Dayton blinked. The Dunsel in Minnesota played chicken with the State Legislature over the biennium budget by shutting down the state government, and The Dunsel blinked. But in his capitulation and acceptance of the proposed budget floated by him on June 30th including some conditions that may be a ...
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Thursday, July 14th, 2011
As the Great Minnesota Shutdown continues, its impact is hitting more and more people. Recently I read how a number of small eateries in down town areas are reducing hours and staff due to a drop in business as a result of state workers being put on furlough.
Now I am ...
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
It's 6AM CDT, and so far it is looking about like what the analysts predicted with Republicans picking up roughly 60 seats in the House and 6 seats in the Senate. There are still seats that are undecided that could push the GOP even further. One can hope.
No, it is ...
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
From the realm of the unbelievable, also known as Minnesota, Robert Pohlad, son of the late Karl Pohlad (and owner of the Twins), is hosting a fundraising event asking $7,600 per person to meet non-other than Smokin' Sloe Joe Biden. Yep, that's right, seventy-six hundred smackers and you can meet ...
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
I haven't been writing in a while. Bad thing to do. Now I find myself living in a state that has become the butt of America. Minnesota is sending a real Bozo to the U.S. Senate. No surprise there. Al Franken, one of the biggest bafoons in in Amrerica, ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Here in Minnesota, we have a Metro transit taxing district, which consists of those few communities that need a transit system, like Minneapolis and St. Paul. Not too long ago, the Democrats up at the State Capitol attempted to expand the transit taxing district to include the rural cities ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
It was a real struggle to get these uploaded as they kept stalling out, however, I finally got the darn things up. I had to split them into two videos due to length.
Part 1:
[flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_ivFV15-4I]
Lot's of jabs being poked at the sierra Club and the Global Warming rally taking ...
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