The Employee Free Choice Act, a bill focused on easing the process of forming a workplace union, is heating up in Congress. Minnesota Congressmen Tim Walz (D-1st District) and Keith Ellison (D-5th District) went on record today supporting the measure…
Just in time for the new Congress, American RadioWorks has come up with a terrific documentary entitled “Imperial Washington“. Listening to it one wonders, “How come no one came up with this stuff a few years ago?”
Actually,…
… and it’s only Monday
“It’s not an experience that I have any working knowledge of, where people buy you something and want something for it. It doesn’t happen in teaching.”
Cross-posted at Vox Verax.
A revolution? Not quite. But the first paragraph of an editorial from a southeastern Minnesota newspaper chain speaks volumes about the change that has overcome the American electorate, at least as represented by a…
Election ’06 is over and done with. Tim Walz predicted a bright, sunny day for 11/8. And if you live in southern Minnesota, it’s true
Cross-posted at Vox Verax.
So your congressman votes against allowing the federal government to negotiate with Big Pharma for lower prescription drug prices for seniors. And so he advocates health savings accounts, which are great if you’re young and…
Thanks to Bluestem Prairie for this tip:
Editorial: Walz, Rowley, Ramstad, McCollum
Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 23, 2006
Two incumbents, two challengers stand out in House races.
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Congress.org now has an online “power ranking” for members of Congress. Overall, Minnesota’s delegation has a power ranking of 15.36, well behind Iowa (one of the top at 28.92) and North Dakota (25.27), and slightly behind its…
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