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Dan Hintz

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St.. Paul, MN
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Posted on 09/19/12 at 02:20 pm in response to Patty Wycoff: From parent and activist to MFT endorsee for school board

Both the report and the letter came out in 2011, well before Mr. Reimnitz gave his interview to Minnpost and began claiming that the students in his classrooms had made significant gains on their test scores. I will give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he either did not know or did not understand that the Atlanta School District had determined that the scores from the testing in his clasroom both of the years he taught had been deemed invalid. At this point, however, as...

Posted on 09/13/12 at 12:11 pm in response to The problem with asking: Are you better off than four years ago?

If you are working hard and making less money and not getting benefits, you should be angry. But I don't know why your anger is directed at public employees. Instead of wanting other middle class workers to have their pay and benefits cut like yours have been, doesn't it make more sense to work to see that everyone who works hard - public or private - gets the pay and beneifts they deserve? Public employees didn't take your pay and benefits - they are getting squeezed like everyone else...

Posted on 09/05/12 at 10:16 pm in response to Gay 'conversion therapy': The danger of letting bias rather than evidence guide medical practice

Hickey's main idea is that homosexuality was removed from the list of mental disorders because of political pressure from the gay community. In making that argument in the article you link to, Hickey says that prior to the change "[t]here was little or no suggestion within the psychiatric community that homosexuality might be conceptualized as anything other than a mental illness that needed to be treated."

That is complete nonsense. The psychiatric community had been debating the...

Posted on 09/06/12 at 10:21 am in response to Gay 'conversion therapy': The danger of letting bias rather than evidence guide medical practice

And I am quite aware that it cites research and or opinions finding that homosexuality was a disorder and something that could be cured. And if you read it as well, you are aware that it also cites research and opinions finding that homosexuality is not a disorder. My point wasn't that everyone agreed that homosexuality was not a disorder. Rather, it was to refute Hickey's false statement that "[t]here was little or no suggestion within the psychiatric community that homosexuality might...

Posted on 08/30/12 at 09:15 pm in response to 2012 amendments: Will Minnesotans deny and restrict — or empower and encourage?

The idea that government is going to get out of the marriage business is nonsense. I don't know if this position is a copout for people who don't want to admit they are anti-gay, or if people sincerely believe that its a good idea, but the bottom line is that its just never going to happen.

What IS going to inevitably happen is that gay marriage is going to become legal everywhere in this country. And the reason for that is based on demographics. Support for gay marriage has...

Posted on 08/29/12 at 12:17 pm in response to New vote-no marriage-amendment ads steer clear of missteps in other states

Try this link:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bl-tea-party-signs.htm?PS=678%3A...

Posted on 08/21/12 at 01:05 pm in response to Twins demote Nick Blackburn, the worst MLB pitcher with 15 or more starts

The magic thing about the internet is that nothing ever goes away. Here is Aaron Gleeman's column after the Blackburn signing in 2010, which he describes as "an unnecessary commitment with less upside and more downside than perhaps meets the eye." Since Blackburn has been the worst starting pitcher in baseball since 2010 (at least according to the "numbers and statistics") it would seem to me that Gleeman had a much better idea about what the Twins should do than the Twins themselves....

Posted on 08/21/12 at 09:53 am in response to Ranked choice voting would bring our system into the 21st century

The premise of this article is false: RCV elections do not eliminate plurality winners.

San Francisco had an RCV election in 2011. Mayor Ed Lee received 59,775 first place votes out of 194,418 votes cast (30.7 percent). After all the second and third place votes were re-allocated, Lee was up to 84,457 votes (43.4 percent). The second place candidate, John Avalos, had 57,160 (29.4 percent) after the second and third place votes were reallocated. The remaining 52,524 votes were on "...

Posted on 08/21/12 at 02:42 pm in response to Ranked choice voting would bring our system into the 21st century

Fairvote has a vested interest in seeing that its voting system and only its voting system gets used because it gets paid to provide voter education for municipalities that enact RCV. St. Paul spent $19,000 on FairVote and agreed to augment that money with $15,000 from other sources. Minneapolis got a grant of $25,000 from the Minneapolis Foundation to pay FairVote for voter education.

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Posted on 08/17/12 at 06:24 pm in response to Minnesota is No. 2 in day-care costs

It doesn't matter whether he was 17 or 18 - either way, he's over the age of consent. He was not charged with a crime because no crime was comitted.