Poverty in Minnesota January 23, 2014 Fascinating maps of Minnesota poverty by county in 1960, just before the War on it was declared, and now fifty years later. Continue Reading
The Tuesday Trib’s trio… October 1, 2013 …of stories pertinent to the levy: The first is about the retirement of Terry Matson. The eye popping figure is this. When he began… Continue Reading
Herding School Board Cats September 9, 2013 Readers of recent posts did not know it at first but I was keeping up with the School Board race from Iowa. The Trib… Continue Reading
Meanwhile the union is pushing for larger class sizes… July 22, 2013 …while asking for ways to make them smaller. That’s my take from this story in today’s DNT about the status of the Contract talks…. Continue Reading
My thanks to the Timberjay July 12, 2013 My friend who keeps me directed to the ever informative Timberjay sent me this link this morning. It made it clear that the Duluth… Continue Reading
A little well deserved Schadenfreude July 1, 2013 Tammy Duckworth turns the knife very artfully. (To my overseas readers – Duckworth is a double amputee veteran of our recent wars who was… Continue Reading
157 million dollar bailout? April 17, 2013 A couple weeks ago the Duluth paper published an update on appeals to the state from the Duluth Teachers pension planners to bail them… Continue Reading
Demographics #1 April 5, 2013 I’d heard recently that American women’s longevity, which for so long exceeded men, was beginning to wane and men were catching up. That is… Continue Reading
The GOP’s 80 billion, oops – 2 trillion, oops – 6 trillion war March 29, 2013 Back in 2002 Newsweek’s economist Robert Samuelson shrugged at the estimated $80 billion cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I’ve never forgotten… Continue Reading
Where’s Walker on Kestrel? March 26, 2013 Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker wasn’t mentioned in this story yesterday on the failure of Wisconsin to make good on its financial pledges to the… Continue Reading
Isn’t this another example of the federal government interferring with local control? March 12, 2013 Taking Illinois to task for its not funding $100 million worth of pension plans and failing to tell investors about it./ Continue Reading
The America the GOP is trying to preserve and bolster March 6, 2013 God forbid we have a “death tax.” It will interfere with the creation of an aristocracy. More Plantations please! Continue Reading
The world the Catholic Church abhors February 28, 2013 Because it involves contraception and family planning: ” Continue Reading
About our local teacher pension fund February 24, 2013 Kudos to the DNT’s Jana Hollingsworth. After one of my posts about pension funds and my experience with the DFTRA I got the impression… Continue Reading
Procedure will kill a comprise on the Fiscal cliff… December 29, 2012 …at least initially: I think Mark Tomasky is absolultey right about this: “Never have the priorities for survival and success of a major party’s… Continue Reading
The new GOP does it dogma style November 1, 2012 They gang up on anyone who expresses misgivings about the stuff coming out of Rush Limbaugh’s radio program. They purge elected Republicans who do… Continue Reading
Romney Jobs or Jabs? October 16, 2012 It wasn’t just closing down US companies and sending their jobs to China. It was crony capitalism and lobbyist inspired laws that gave Bain’s… Continue Reading
If all 6.9 billion humans lived like the people of the US… August 13, 2012 …it would take 4 plus Earths to supply them. Fascinating infographic. If they all lived like Mitt Romney it would take a dozen galaxies…. Continue Reading
Guess which of these causes of the deficit are the GOP’s? May 15, 2012 Most of them – at least most of them that are continuing to aggravate it. [T]he main drivers of projected deficits over the next… Continue Reading