In a letter released today but dated Dec. 11, Rep.-elect Tim Walz (MN) and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (NY) have asked the House Committee on Government Reform to look into the proposed taxpayer-subsidized $2.3 billion loan for the DM&E Railroad.…
Once considered a “sure thing,” the proposed Dakota Minnesota & Eastern (DM&E) Railroad expansion into the coal-rich Powder River Basin could be on the verge of collapse. The reasons for this are many and varied, but a last-minute provision slipped…
The new congressman laughs it off
“Yeah, a reporter asked me that the other day,” Tim Walz told me at a gathering of State DFLers at the Holiday Inn in Mankato Saturday night. He chuckled. “Heck, I’ve just…
… 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.”
Walz to address the DNC in Washington; Transportation Secretary Peters to visit Rochester
According to a Minnesota DFL press release today, Congressman-elect Tim Walz will address the Democratic National Committee’s Executive Committee on Dec. 2 about the recent…
Tim Walz has segued in the last two years from laid-back school teacher to frenetic campaigner and now equally frenetic congressman-elect. It’s quite a transition. Though official announcements will be forthcoming, here’s what’s happening on the QT:
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While the election generated major media hoopla, the issues that contributed to its outcome are still there: Iraq, corruption, the national deficit
Cross-posted at Vox Verax.
Tim Walz is suddenly a celebrity after his upset victory over Gil Gutknecht last Tuesday. No doubt Ph.D. theses will be written on the subject analyzing what the Walz campaign did right and the Gutknecht…
It was really pleasant to observe some political discussion this past week without having to take notes. After the election ends there is one giant sigh of relief. Yet there is still one group that doesn’t get to slow down,…
Or is Tim Walz the Jerry McNerney of Minnesota?
Nov. 7 was indeed a day of upsets. Two of the most unexpected were Tim Walz in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District and Jerry McNerney in California’s 11th.…
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