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Bill Gleason

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
5 years 28 weeks

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Posted on 01/25/13 at 04:03 pm in response to Amy Koch reviews her ‘bad year,’ hits back at GOP critics

She has honest work and is not moping around feeling sorry for herself like some other ex-pols around these parts.

As Voltaire put it in Candide: "We must cultivate our gardens."

Posted on 01/25/13 at 11:29 am in response to Minnesota budget: How Dayton's team put the ‘Big Plan’ together

Why Mark Dayton is a great governor.

He listens, and even changes his mind when evidence warrants. He can do the heavy lifting or find people who have the expertise like Frans.

Nice to have an adult in charge again. Hope that he and the legislature can get us back on the road to fiscal sustainability. Minnesota is well set up to prosper in the future if we can get our act together.

How not to do it? See Wisconsin.

Posted on 01/25/13 at 01:56 pm in response to Minnesota budget: How Dayton's team put the ‘Big Plan’ together

"He [Dayton] is not very smart and clearly has emotional problems."

Clearly has emotional problems? Care to document this, Ruthie Bower?

Posted on 01/25/13 at 10:31 am in response to Gay marriage polling shows Minnesota split

There is plenty of much better evidence for climate change - human induced.

Using arguments like the ones cited only gives the denialists an opportunity to point out vagaries in history in either the colder or warmer direction.

Posted on 01/25/13 at 10:34 am in response to Gay marriage polling shows Minnesota split

so I am surprised at his comment that he could find no mention of Mr. Brodkorb on the conservative blogosphere.

I’ll Take A Moment…
Posted on January 24, 2013 by Mitch Berg

…to send my best wishes and prayers to my friend and former NARN colleague Michael Brodkorb and his family. Michael was critically injured in an accident last night.

link: http://bit.ly/WqWElj

Posted on 01/23/13 at 09:45 pm in response to Poll: Dayton in good shape for re-election

"now that he wants to disarm us all"

Exactly where did the story say this?

This is the kind of resistance to ANY change to the status quo that gives reasonable people who own firearms a bad name.

Posted on 01/25/13 at 09:46 pm in response to Poll: Dayton in good shape for re-election

If you just read a snippet of Swift, you might believe he was being serious. Some of us are slow and it takes a couple of paragraphs for us to get it.

Maybe Frank can enlighten us?

Posted on 01/23/13 at 10:39 am in response to Return to the U: The Confession

Looking forward to further observations.

Posted on 01/07/13 at 02:55 pm in response to President Kaler responds to press allegations of U of M 'bloat'

that the U cannot use grant money to buy down tuition.

Unfortunately the reverse process may be happening.

The problem is that much of the research done by the U is NOT completely paid for by the money supplied by granting agencies, including the overhead.

There is some legitimate argument to be made about the exact amount of money involved but it appears to be somewhere between twenty or thirty percent of the amount supplied by granting agencies.

So if one brings...

Posted on 01/07/13 at 06:20 pm in response to President Kaler responds to press allegations of U of M 'bloat'

Mr. Udstrand.

There certainly are "administrative costs" attached to grant writing and monitoring activities. These would, indeed, drive up the cost of administration.

Unfortunately the whole situation is a mess. As President Kaler pointed out, different institutions attribute administrative costs in different ways. This is part of the problem when trying to compare from one institution to another to try to see who is doing things efficiently.

But for years the...