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Connie Sullivan

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
1 year 34 weeks

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Posted on 05/02/13 at 02:27 pm in response to Franken draws celeb donors, including Garrison Keillor

I agree. Not only is there little news beyond the unsurprising tidbit in the headline, there's nothing about how much each celebrity gave (did they give more than I did in this past quarter?). From where came the individual donors with the less-than-$100 donations? Minnesota? California?

This is surface use of somebody else's journalistic digging.

Posted on 05/02/13 at 02:38 pm in response to Thissen: No vote on gun control this year

The legislators who have blocked even just tighter background checks for gun purchases are fear-ridden, as are their constituents who cling to an absolute Second Amendment "right" (the Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the Second Amendment is definitely NOT absolute and can be limited).

This is, indeed, a session marked by deep cowardice by our senators and representatives, who won't even stand up and be counted on gun control questions!

Posted on 05/02/13 at 02:32 pm in response to AT&T cell phone tower diminishes Minnesota’s prized northern wilderness

Bill, my impression is that it's the precedent A T and T established: we can build tall towers in or at the borders of wilderness areas wherever we want.

They made their point. This will not be the last of the tall towers interrupting the stillness and remoteness of our national park wildernesses.

Posted on 04/30/13 at 03:06 pm in response to Cartoonist Ohman's offense? Starkly provoking a debate over politics and public safety

I do not see the problem with Ohmann's point or his timing. His point is that the West, Texas tragedy could have been avoided with adequate inspections by state regulatory agencies, but Gov. Perry goes around the country touting his state's lax to non-existent regulations and inspections. The cartoon attacks Perry's policies.
His timing is spot-on: when everyone is upset at the unnecessary deaths and destruction at that uninspected fertilizer plant placed too close to residences.

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Posted on 04/26/13 at 03:36 pm in response to The only path to settlement: Orchestra musicians, board members must negotiate

The only way to get the musicians to negotiate is for the board to rescind its horrible "final offer" and put everything on the table for negotiation. Everything.

If these two board members can't convince their fellow board members to do that, this opinion/PR piece is useless.

And, I can't help but say that this family seriously needs an outside counselor to help it with its dysfunctionality--we outsiders who love music just hear board and musicians screaming past each other...

Posted on 04/26/13 at 03:50 pm in response to Minnesota's air quality rises in new stats; how those grades are made

These "grades" on not on an absolute scale; they're on a curve. Which means that Minneapolis and St. Paul get "grades" in part depending on whether other cities are dirtier or cleaner than they used to be, not on whether the Twin Cities have more Air Alert days.

Minneapolis air is dirtier than it used to be. And it is in great part from those newly modish backyard fires. But it's also that huge downtown garbage burner Hennepin County has Covanta run for it. HERC is a major...

Posted on 04/23/13 at 12:06 pm in response to Rep. Phyllis Kahn shepherding Legacy funding bill through political labyrinth

No, you didn't vote for this specific set of recommendations by the commission. You voted, as did I, for the Legacy amendment. That's different.

The issue here is not a strong-minded, scientifically-trained, and experienced DFL legislator, Phyllis Kahn. The issue is complicated, has to do with competing views of where wildlife lives in Minnesota (IS there any wildlife or green space to conserve in the Twin Cities metro?--a question that group of citizens apparently answered in the...

Posted on 04/19/13 at 04:05 pm in response to Boston bombing manhunt for suspect No. 2 prompts lockdown; No. 1 killed

Please. Anyone reading this confused and incomplete, rapidly-put-together article knows that there's a lot left to find out or know. Jumping to conclusions about IDs and motives is uncalled for. Unless you're their uncle and know all about it?

Posted on 04/18/13 at 03:48 pm in response to Democrats mix disappointment and anger after Senate blocks gun bill

All it takes to be clear on this, Mr. Henry, it to add an adjective or adverb to your statement that it takes 60 votes to pass a bill in the U. S. Senate. It only takes 51 votes--or 50 plus the Vice President's vote. Don't turn a falsehood, a temporary Senate rule on its way to perpetual status, into Truth.

The Republicans made a gigantic, a huge concession last week, when they agreed even to let this gun-control measure and its amendments come up for any Senate vote at all.

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Posted on 04/11/13 at 04:07 pm in response to Jim Graves will challenge Bachmann again in 2014

Graves, with his suggestions on budget and taxation issues, has at least given us all something to discuss! What a breath of fresh air, compared to the rather sterile and misleading one-way sound bite environment in the Bachmann mode.

Graves seems like a candidate and future congressman who will listen. We can talk calmly about CPI and other questions with him.

And, I don't know who the people at the Democratic Congressional Campaign center were, who ignored Graves's challenge...