There are certain things that should be none of your business and who you vote for or what your political ideology is should be one of those things.
But political parties crave that data and since politicians write the laws, there’s little hope for keeping your business private. Read more →
The Minnesota Legislature is thick with lawyers in its ranks so it’s hard to believe that when the Senate followed the House in passing legislation to ignore a judge’s order addressing water levels in White Bear Lake, they didn’t know it’s probably unconstitutional. Read more →
Say what you want about John McCain, but you’ll likely not see a politician do what he did in Lakeville in 2008. Read more →
It’s a low bar to be a terrorist in Wisconsin. Read more →
If there was one issue that seemed like a slam dunk in the Minnesota Legislature’s session, it’s that something would be done to address the elder abuse and neglect uncovered in a Star Tribune series that exposed flaws in the system to protect them.
Nope. Read more →
Your ‘but I don’t feel like working’ timewaster of the day is finding everything wrong with this Twitter account. Read more →
A tweet of St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s skit during the MinnPost fundraiser last week raced around the InterTubes, but, taken on a smartphone from the audience, the audio was difficult to hear.
MinnPost has now posted a produced version of the bit. Read more →
We have reached the stage of the Minnesota Legislature’s annual session when it is forced to cram its work into the last few days, creating the illusion that it is working. It’s not. Read more →
The ‘we’re not Trump’ strategy didn’t work in ’16 and there’s a least a little evidence that banking on it in ’18 has similar risks, if a new poll by Reuters/Ipsos is any indication.
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Everyone has an opinion on ‘the media’ today because the pampered TV anchors and insular political reporters have once again made it easy to narrowly define the term, with their ridiculous annual decision to party with the people they’re supposed to be covering. Not shown nor considered are all the journalists in the world who were busy doing their jobs and may not even own tuxedos and evening gowns. Read more →
Mary and Carlos Mejia, who were married in 2011. Carlos is an undocumented resident who came to the United States in 2017. Mary is a native who speaks no Spanish. Her family and friends are here. And she’s moving with her family to Mexico to escape the uncertainty of the U.S. crackdown on immigration. Read more →
Did a prayer for the poor get a Jesuit priest run out of the U.S. Capitol? The chaplain of the House of Representatives, Rev. Patrick Conroy, was forced to resign by Speaker Paul Ryan, NBC reports. Ryan isn’t talking, but GOP and Democratic representatives think it has something to do with this prayer, offered as Read more →
West St. Paul officials are being accused of alleged misogyny this week following a raucous debate over the nomination of three people — all of them women — to the city’s Planning Commission.
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It’s unlikely there’ll be many people on the sidelines in the case of a lawsuit that alleges children have been taken from parents in Minnesota because they were spanked. You’re either for spanking or you’re against it. Read more →
Bob Collins
1,000 Words: The baby in the Senate