UPDATE: Since this article was originally posted, the United Transportation Union has declared its opposition to the proposed DM&E loan. See “United Transportation Union Blasts DM&E Loan“.
The football season ends but politics remain with us forever. For…
It’s no secret that U.S. Rep. Tim Walz has some issues with the expansion of the DM&E railroad and the bloated federal loan scheduled to be handed to DM&E. As the Minnesota Democrat delivered comments from his constituents to the…
Politicians aren’t the only folks who like to change history in order to justify what they say in the present. Pwonkies (political wonks) are also guilty. Here’s an example from Stuart Rothenberg posted Feb. 5 on RealClearPolitics (italics are mine):…
Rep. Tim Walz may not have office furniture or computers yet, but that doesn’t hold back the national press. Wednesday he was featured on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. The clip is here. Also, a new political website…
Freshman congressman Tim Walz is doing quite well, thank you. Going from an apolitical high school government teacher to being a U.S. congressman in the space of less than 30 months has been quite a ride.
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The errors of President Bush and the Republican Party are coming back to bite them in so many ways: Iraq, Afghanistan, domestic policies, even the way they’ve conducted their campaigns. For example, this editorial from the Tomah (WI).
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Tim Walz’s surprising victory is just a symbol of a city’s success that has been brewing for a long time
When I first moved to Mankato, Minnesota, in the fall of 1986, I thought I was moving to…
The PR machine representing those supporting the DM&E Railroad’s proposed expansion into Wyoming’s Powder River Basin is running full-bore today after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled in favor of the project yesterday.
The effort is…
An article today by Matthew Spieler on CQPolitics.com (“The ‘Everyman’ Image of Rep.-elect Walz“) is a good example of how the national media still doesn’t quite know how to deal with the Tim Walz victory, just like they didn’t…
by Leigh Pomeroy
Pro- and anti-DM&E expansion groups met in Byron, MN, and Pierre, SD, this week to once more air their arguments. The pro-expansion Byron meeting was hosted by the Olmsted County Farm Bureau, the Minnesota Association of…
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