MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Politics

Zellers on professor remark: MPR misinformed me

Bob Collins May 19, 2011, 10:51 AM May 19, 2011

15

We now know where Minnesota House Speaker Kurt Zellers got his information before making the assertion that college professors in Minnesota have been getting 20-30 percent pay increases like Minnesota families are losing 30-40 percent of their income.

Same-sex marriage ban one step from voters

Bob Collins May 18, 2011, 11:43 AM May 18, 2011

6

A House committee passed the bill to the House floor today on a mostly party line vote.

Roll call vote: Income tax increase for the wealthy

Bob Collins May 17, 2011, 3:58 PM May 17, 2011

4

In a vote that surprises no one but will undoubtedly serve as the foundation for dozens of glossy mailers you’ll get during the next election season, the Minnesota House officially rejected Gov. Mark Dayton’s proposal to raise income taxes on the state’s wealthiest residents this afternoon.

Where are the college professors getting big pay raises?

Bob Collins May 17, 2011, 1:35 PM May 17, 2011

20

College professors getting big pay raises apparently are the new $100,000 waiter and waitress.

A brief history of the constitutional amendment

Bob Collins May 16, 2011, 1:04 PM May 16, 2011

How often does it happen that a constitutional amendment has failed even though more people voted ‘yes’ vote than ‘no?’

The marketplace of ideas in 2011

Hart Van Denburg May 13, 2011, 12:48 PM May 13, 2011

8

Ben Haas is a communication studies graduate student at Louisiana State University. He tried to burn a flag on campus the other day. Things didn’t go as planned.

Church basement problem-solving

dgaraets May 12, 2011, 2:40 PM May 12, 2011

Use hot dish to patch potholes? It might work.

The same-sex marriage roll call

Bob Collins May 11, 2011, 2:35 PM May 11, 2011

15

Here is the Senate roll call vote approving the bill that places a constitutional question on the 2012 ballot banning same-sex marriage.

The same-sex marriage debate in 8 minutes

Bob Collins May 11, 2011, 1:38 PM May 11, 2011

2

Today’s Senate debate on whether same-sex marriage should be banned, boiled down to just a few minutes.

Under Vikings stadium plan, Saint Paul becomes most expensive city to shop

Bob Collins May 10, 2011, 2:43 PM May 10, 2011

7

The stadium plan puts Saint Paul, in particular, as the most expensive city to buy things in in Minnesota because it already has a city sales tax in addition to the state sales tax and the transportation tax.

Voter ID roll call

Bob Collins May 6, 2011, 11:57 AM May 6, 2011

3

How state representatives voted on the Minnesota bill to require people to show a photo ID on Election Day.

Politics and ‘ground zero’

Bob Collins May 5, 2011, 1:45 PM May 5, 2011

3

Was President Obama’s trip to New York a ‘victory lap?’

‘I see your pencil neck weasel and raise you a twit’

Bob Collins May 4, 2011, 12:10 PM May 4, 2011

9

Not since Garrison Keillor and Jesse Ventura went at it has the world seen a politician vs. elitist artist fray like the one developing between Rep. Matt Dean and author Neil Gaiman.

The Bin Laden poll

Bob Collins May 3, 2011, 2:33 PM May 3, 2011

11

Why stories about who the American public think deserves the credit, deserves to be taken with a grain of salt.

Legislators target majority rule on tax increases

Bob Collins April 28, 2011, 2:07 PM Apr 28, 2011

8

The 2012 ballot is certainly going to be a long one if all of the proposed constitutional amendment questions are approved by this year’s Legislature.