Bob CollinsThis certainly seems to miss the point of the benefit of renewable energy. Midwest Energy News says 11 acres of mature hardwood trees were cleared in Wright County to make way for a solar project.
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African-American women graduating from West Point celebrate their upcoming graduation. One might also conclude they’re celebrating their resilience to survive West Point. But these things must be viewed through a white culture, apparently.
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Some kids who played baseball could have learned a valuable lesson this season: Standing up for values requires personal sacrifice.
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We deserve more intelligent coverage that seven minutes of Patrick Buchanan on a soap box.
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The House voted 129-3 to pass a bill that encourages schools that voluntarily provide character development education to include Congressional Medal of Honor history and values in the curriculum.
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Across the street from the Lake Elmo Airport, the second-smallest airport of the Metropolitan Airports Commission’s “reliever airports” — a neighborhood is rising from the onetime cornfields.
That’s significant given that the airport is becoming the focus of neighborhood opposition because of plans to expand one of the runways to a length similar to those at other small airports in the area, such as South St. Paul’s Holman Field.
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There’s still a chance, albeit somewhat slim, that the Minnesota Legislature will pass legislation to require an estimated 10,000 police officers in Minnesota to get four hours of training on how to respond to mental health calls. Read more →
City Pages, the Twin Cities alt weekly, is under fire in Minneapolis for an anonymously sourced piece critical of a member of the Minneapolis City Council.
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In the new rush to police bathroom use, who will protect people from self-appointed bathroom cops? Read more →
The presidential parody skits in the last White House Correspondents Dinner in a president’s term in office are usually pretty good, certainly better than the stand-up routines that comedians usually miss with at the same dinner. Read more →
Q: What do you call it when a cast member from The West Wing takes over a job in the actual West Wing?
A: A good start. Read more →
St. Paul’s skyways can be pretty scary. They’re often abandoned and the various nooks and crannies can be a perfect hiding spot for the occasional ne’er-do-well. And that’s in the middle of the afternoon.
So is closing a few of them at 10 p.m. that bad of an idea?
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Today, the Times reports that Trump’s plane is flying again because he sold it to another corporation he owns, which allowed the plane to fly immediately rather than wait for renewal paperwork to be generated. Read more →
A state lawmaker wants Minnesota to have a state color to honor Prince and a bill so stating will probably pass, given that lawmakers love to pass official symbol legislation.
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In his New York Times column, Stones, Notre Dame professor Gary Gutting considers whether everyone should be urged to vote, considering, he says, that there is ample evidence that the majority does not rule.
Even when large majorities of people favor policy change in America, they generally do not get it, he writes of some still-inconclusive research. “If you’re one of the many who are convinced that our system is effectively an oligarchy, why play in an electoral game you think has been rigged?”
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