I agree with Barbara's comments above. It's also sad that civics isn't taught anymore in our public schools. My only hope is that good journalists like Black keep writing, that MoveOn.org gets another 7 million members and that the public wises-up after Labor Day and gets angry at the do-nothing party.

In a democracy citizens have responsibilities as well as rights. The public needs to start taking those responsibilities seriously and do more than demonstrate. As the Arab spring...

Rove's ad is subtle and may be effective, but reading Eric's piece on Krauthammer's speech before the Center of the American Experiment that doesn't praise Romney and the recent Minnesota Republican convention dominated by Ron Paul's adherents should give Democrats (DFL in Minnesota) hope. Between now and November Obama may get more aggressive and Democrats may get energized and quit expecting Obama to wave magic wands to accomplish things. After all, it's too many Democrats and Minnesota...

It's not only young adults moving into the city. On the east side of the river in Minneapolis, we are finding many empty nesters and older professionals are also moving in. With two major new developments proposed and underway in SE Minneapolis (the other side of the river to many of you), and others such as Cobalt between University and 4th Streets SE along E. Hennepin, recently finished and occupied, an economically diverse, vibrant community is being re-created in the shadow of downtown...

Agreed. GoTo cards are wonderful as is Metro Transit. The big problem is that liberals who are all for transit don't use it. My book group friends always offer to drive me home when they learn I came downtown by bus to our meeting. They don't understand that, knowing the schedule--and the buses stay close to schedule, I can get home faster than they can drive me. We have to go to where they parked, find their car, they pay a big fee, while I can exult that, as a senior, if the meeting...