Bob CollinsEven the mayor of Minneapolis acknowledged on Tom Weber’s program on Minnesota Public Radio yesterday that there’s no equitable distribution of the good life that The Atlantic so portrayed in its article. Read more →
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Joe Biden swore in the new secretary of defense today, then whispered sweet somethings into his wife’s ear. Read more →
Today’s release of the review of MNsure from the Office of the Legislative Auditor leaves a big question for MNsure’s board of directors: What were you thinking when you put such incompetence on the payroll? Read more →
Oh, America, if only you could just lighten up a little bit.
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When Jennifer Axelberg of Monticello tried to flee her husband during a fight at their cabin in Mora, she didn’t have much choice but to get in a car and drive for a mile to safety, even though she had enough to drink at dinner that she was driving under the influence.
As a result, the commissioner of public safety in Minnesota revoked her driver’s license under the state’s implied consent law.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a presidential hopeful, has gotten a lot of mileage out of his story — told most recently at a convention of conservatives in Iowa — about Wisconsin’s teacher of the year losing her job because of union seniority rules.
One problem: It never happened. Read more →
Gov. Mark Dayton is asking for $10 million to replace the state’s two airplanes. Read more →
A surprising thing has happened to those war-protesting, Eugene McCarthy-voting, Richard Nixon-hating kids of the ’60s. They’ve become Republicans. Read more →
Some state legislators have a fear of intelligent data. A new bill is aimed at killing an alternative to the gas tax before it’s born. Read more →
It only takes a quick scan of the public safety section of area newspapers to see what alcohol can do to people, and a state legislator is suggesting — again — that one answer to the problem is to allow more people to drink at a younger age.
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A group favoring tax reform is betting that you’re going to feel sorry for New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. Read more →
The nice story about the reaction of people who pitched in to help a guy who has walked 21 miles for work in Detroit every day can’t just be a nice story about people pitching in to help a guy who has walked 21 miles for work in Detroit every day.
There’s a subtle belittling of the effort by those who favor better transportation options for people, as if people can’t stop a wound from bleeding and try to stop the war, too. Read more →
When Sen. Thom Tillis was in the last minutes of his appearance at the Bipartisan Policy Center yesterday, whatever self-preservation instinct he has failed him from trying out an analogy to explain why businesses are over regulated. Read more →
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who’s over in Europe burnishing his foreign policy credentials, just injected the vaccine issue into his likely 2016 presidential campaign. Read more →
The people at College Raptor have finally found something that Republicans and Democrats in the United States Senate have in common: Their educations. For the most part, nothing but the best, and disproportionately from the Ivy League.
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