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David Fehlan

Minneapolis
Commenter for
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Posted on 05/15/13 at 01:57 pm in response to Target is latest snag in stadium financing

Target, like any other large corporation, has very sophisticated information management systems. They know where their products are distributed and it would be easy for them to pay the special tax solely on sports trinkets sold in-state. They just don't want to.

It's quite routine for the MN Dept of Revenue to accept - and to verify via audits - various types of corporate self-assessment, especially in the sales and use tax category. Lawmakers and their staffers must know this and if...

Posted on 04/05/13 at 11:49 am in response to GOP's Nienow urges delaying Vikes stadium groundbreaking

RHINO legislators who led the charge: Senjem, Rosen, Manning, Zellers. (I know Zellers voted NO but he was a closet supporter and could have forced a doubtful vote on a Friday. Instead, he gave Dayton a golden opportunity to rally the mob at the M.O.A. over a weekend)

Mpls area DFL legislators who supported the Wilfare/Union shakedown: Higgins, Kelash, Champion, Thissen. Also, Bakk, though not from Mpls, was a vocal supporter who crowed about this being a 'free' stadium for...

Posted on 03/27/13 at 02:41 pm in response to AG Lori Swanson to Sanford takeover of Fairview: Not so fast

Swenson might want to look at the website of "non-profits" like the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic while she's at it and before the MN leg hands out another $500 million in corporate welfare to the Mayo.

The Mayo has locations in Florida and Arizona and the Cleveland Clinic has locations in Florida, Canada, Nevada and Abu Dhabi.

It seems like these institutions will use their reputations to sell services to anyone, anywhere and that's fine if they were tax-paying...

Posted on 02/26/13 at 01:54 pm in response to Lawsuits: N. Dakota tribes were cheated out of $1 billion

Before railing on the petroleum industry, it might help to read the Pro Publica story. Much of the blame is cast on various tribal members/councils that appear to have screwed their own people out of the money, and the federal government that let the contracts go through.

Posted on 02/04/13 at 02:33 pm in response to Florida congressman needles Gov. Dayton on 'snowbird tax'

and it's not the first attempt by Mr. Lambert to ridicule the decisions made by people within a day or two of their violent deaths. A couple of weeks ago he couldn't contain his snark and added inappropriate comments to the Glean item about the metro area woman who was killed and then dismembered by her husband.

If the Glean had existed ten years ago, would he have called Wellstone a moron for hiring a less-than-top-notch small plane pilot?

Posted on 11/19/12 at 01:30 pm in response to Why Gallup hates Nate Silver

The article excerpt below describes much of the content and the business model of the MinnPost, right down to the snark (see Lambert's comments at the end of nearly every item in the Daily Glean).
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The aggregators get the benefit of the original work without having to pay for it. The Huffington Post, the Drudge Report, Gawker — these successful sites all got their start as aggregators, taking the work of others and adding their own (often snarky) spin...