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Bill Gleason

Minneapolis, MN
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5 years 27 weeks

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Posted on 10/18/10 at 12:24 pm in response to An apology at the U, and a visit from the president

A cut will not harm the elitists in Morrill Hall.

They'll just raise tuition...

Posted on 10/18/10 at 10:06 am in response to An apology at the U, and a visit from the president

Much as the Morrill Hall Gang, Max, would like to see "this little contretemps over academic freedom" go away, I don't think it's going to happen...

Readers interested in more than this short blow-off might want to do a little Googling, some background being:

Internal University of Minnesota Documents About Troubled Waters
Warning - It's Ugly...

link:

http://bit.ly/d23dTW

Given the...

Posted on 10/17/10 at 06:31 pm in response to Star Tribune endorses Horner; ignores Vikings, client conflicts

So what's really going on?

Horner doesn't have a snowball's chance...

Perhaps they honestly feel, that on paper, that Horner's shtick is the best. But this really doesn't make a whole lot of sense if you think about it. How in the world is Horner going to get the Repubs and the Dems to play nice in the lege? The Repubs are obviously furious at Horner for his RINO ways and the Dems know that he is a Republican... Trainwreck?

And of course there is this nagging little...

Posted on 10/14/10 at 11:16 pm in response to Horner campaign describes its path to victory

You'll note, Allison, that I pointed out that Horner would have been a much better candidate than Emmer as a Republican.

I'm sorry, but the number of dems, such as you, going for Horner is a lot smaller than the number of repubs and there appears to be pretty good data to back this up.

And you neatly side-stepped my point about the unattractiveness of Horner's taxation policy.

As far as new business development, I am a little disappointed in Dayton's efforts in this...

Posted on 10/14/10 at 05:11 pm in response to Horner campaign describes its path to victory

Eric has it pretty well sussed out.

Emmer's problem is that a vote for Horner is actually a vote for Dayton, because it comes out of Emmer's hide.

I could never understand why the GOP was thinking that Horner would attract Democrats, for cripe's sake. He was on Almanac for years as a GOP spokesman and his plans to raise taxes on the middle and lower classes - via sales tax increase - are political suicide.

If Horner, or Marty Seifert, were running as the GOP...

Posted on 10/14/10 at 11:42 pm in response to Low taxes, low unemployment? Sounds good, but no truism

It may be that for low wage manufacturing jobs, the low tax, low unemployment argument holds. And competing in that market is a race to the bottom. First the tax evaders move to Arkansas or Mississippi and then, once these states have been bled for tax breaks, they move to China.

But that is certainly NOT the case for biotech jobs as Bill Hoffman and Thomas Lee have illustrated in MedCity News: http://bit.ly/c33edD...

Posted on 10/14/10 at 04:24 pm in response to An earlier assault on academic freedom at the U: the Forrest Wiggins affair

Thank you Barry for your memories. Sometimes the good old days weren't so good after all.

When I was a grad student at the U ('70-'73) Fred Van Catledge was a young, black, assistant prof in the chem department. He may have been a helluva researcher but his teaching was a bit opaque. To his credit he used to hold optional Saturday classes - as did some other of the other excellent chem faculty members such as Morrie Kreevoy - where we groundlings could ask for demystification. On a...

Posted on 10/14/10 at 08:49 am in response to An earlier assault on academic freedom at the U: the Forrest Wiggins affair

There is an interesting book, nominally fiction, that describes some of the events outlined in this article.

The book was written by, I believe, a former city-council member who was a U graduate who may have been expelled over protesting the incident.

I bought the book at Tom's pharmacy on University Avenue. Can anyone jog my failing memory as I am in Boston and the book is in Minneapolis?

Posted on 10/14/10 at 08:52 am in response to If a Horner vote is not a wasted one, then what is it?

Q: Is a Horner vote a wasted vote?
A: No, it is a vote for Dayton.

Posted on 10/14/10 at 10:32 am in response to Miller Times: Something has gone terribly wrong on the north side

Rather than hyper-suburban flight to MoreU Park, perhaps the U of M should show us the way as an urban university and demonstrate some leadership here? The absurd adventure in Rosemount is a tremendous waste of resources that would be better spent in urban development. Setting up shop thirty miles away is going to be an economic and social disaster in the long run.

What is the U doing while the North Side is decaying? And I don't mean the scam of using the North Side as a research...