Mortgage fraud. Negative equity. Exotic loans. As the former assistant attorney general for the state of Minnesota and current attorney for the Housing Preservation Project, Mark Ireland has seen his fair share of…
A bill to expand the self-defense definition that lets gun owners use deadly force failed a House committee vote yesterday. Rep. Tony “Stand Your Ground” Cornish, R-Good Thunder, says he still might try inserting the legislation…
In a 44-22 vote by Minnesota’s state Senate today, Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau was removed from her post as Commissioner of Transportation.
The Senate declined to confirm Molnau, who has been under fire for her response to the Interstate 35W…
Nuclear power has picked up a few unlikely endorsements lately, as some environmentalists reconsider its possible lesser-evil status as an alternative to carbon-spewing coal…
Gov. Tim Pawlenty has said clean energy would be the focus of his yearlong term as chair of the…
2/18 PM UPDATE: The state House Energy Finance and Policy Division voted to recommend $2.5 million for the plasma arc project in the 2008 bonding bill. The item now goes forward to the state House Finance Committee.
A remarkable thing happened at the State Capitol last spring: Our elected officials agreed on something, and that something, of all things, was climate change. A bill with bipartisan support passed the House and Senate and was then signed in…
Today is the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, and if the man were alive today he would most certainly support new gas and sales taxes to support road and transit projects. That’s the message…
A man named Norm, representing a group called Minnesotans United for Immigration Reduction, offered a novel explanation for the world’s fossil fuel and peak-oil problems at a legislative hearing on Monday.
“We now have about 303 million people in this…
One of the world’s leading peak-oil experts testified Monday before a Minnesota legislative energy committee.
Matthew Simmons, a Houston oil investment banker and former energy adviser to President Bush, is author…
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