For the past two weeks Pyi Maung hasn’t spoken with his parents in restive Burma. It’s one of the longest silences between him and his parents, but it’s for a good reason: He doesn’t want…
Tom Elko, a member of AFSCME 3800 and author of Sky Blue Waters, offers a unique videoblog view from the picket line at the University of Minnesota, where clerical, technical and health care workers have…
Far too many conflicts are crippling the world, yet too few people like Mel Duncan have dedicated their lives to do something about the strife. Fewer still get recognized for their efforts. But this week, a respected…
Editor’s Note: Matt Martin writes a column twice monthly on the 1st and 15th (he’s 2 days early). This article is cross-posted at MNpublius.
With this session’s most politically tenuous piece of major legislation finally hitting the Governor’s desk,…
Editor’s Note: Matt Martin writes a column twice monthly on the first and 15th. This article is cross-posted at MNpublius.
As I wrote in my previous column in this space, I think that the DFL leadership in the…
For a lot of Minnesotans, JOBZ is just another government-backed economic incentive program, this one designed to help the rural parts of the state by creating jobs
The usual group of surly curmudgeons gathered on the Capitol steps Saturday demanding an end to taxation. Jason Lewis and the entire listenership of KTLK (charitably estimated by the station itself at 7,000) gathered to demand an…
For his master’s thesis in genocide studies, U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., grappled with how education about genocide had failed. History classes had, rightly, incorporated thorough study of the Holocaust, he said, but “we did…
A total of 67 bills were introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives Monday on a broad range of issues with taxation, education, transportation, and natural resources among the issues garnering more legislative attention. To stay up to date on…
The situation in Darfur is grim.
Former U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz laments that just 7,000 African Union troops are confronting the monumental task of averting genocide in a region of Sudan “about the size of…
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