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Jeremy Powers

Fridley, MN
Commenter for
5 years 24 weeks

Recent Comments

Posted on 01/06/12 at 12:28 pm in response to Who works for minimum wage or less in Minnesota?

Working below a standard of living is sad. However, what's even sadder are some of these neocons who then say these people should pay for their own healthcare under some Groupon-like scheme.

If we're going to have people who workk for so little, we need to see that their basic needs are met. And if that means raising the price of a cup of coffee or a hamburger, so be it.

Posted on 01/03/12 at 12:59 pm in response to Iowa's role in presidential politics makes no sense

There are some legitimate reasons for letting Iowa be first. It is a well-educated population that reads newspapers at a higher rate than most states. It has few really rich people. The people are more engaged than in most places. It has a lot of highly educated people. And they have as good a mix of farming, industry, technology, etc., as any state.

However, after having lived there for eight years and covered politics for the Mason City Globe-Gazette at one time, I can tell you that...

Posted on 01/06/12 at 12:25 pm in response to ECM completes deal for Sun community newspapers

I hope they are run more like ECM and less like the Sun. ECM has good reporting and pretty good writing for a series of small papers. The same cannot be said for most of the Sun papers.

Posted on 12/17/11 at 11:39 am in response to Latest Amy Koch developments complicate GOP plans across the board

Dennis Tester, you're completely off base. What really matters here is the hypocrisy of the Republican Party. They act holier than thou about everything and they can't seem to do any of it themselves. They say that one-man and one-woman families are sacred, yet they cheat just as often as anyone else. They say you have to manage money, and they run a government that borrows constantly and can't even run their own party in the black. I don't remember Bill Clinton condemning single mother...

Posted on 12/17/11 at 12:36 pm in response to 2011 Ten Outstanding Young Minnesotans honored at awards celebration

Thanks for being a media partner, but it would have been nice if you listed their names without having to click through to the Jaycees site. And a identifying caption would help me put a name to the faces.

Posted on 12/08/11 at 12:42 pm in response to Are Tea Partiers racists?

I don't think the Tea Party is racist, per se. It just attracts the same ignorant, misguided people that tend to be racist.

Posted on 12/08/11 at 11:00 am in response to What it's like being a scientist in the GOP-led Legislature

I don't know if all politicians are noble. I think they can be. I think Kate Knuth is.

Posted on 11/15/11 at 11:11 am in response to Will Vikings be a washout for the next two months?

The Vikings have been a washout all year. So, in answer to your headline, yes.

In all fairness to the Vikings during a "building" year, I think this Packer team may be the greatest football team I've ever seen - even better than the '89 49ers and the '72 Dolphins.

Posted on 11/09/11 at 01:40 pm in response to Levy voters send message to the Legislature

This is the pendulum swinging back on the clueless conservatives that were swept into office in the last elecction who then promptly did NOTHING. All they did was dig their feet in and look like the fools they are. If this pendulum keeps swinging this way because the legislature does nothing for another year, we'll finally -- after more than 30 years -- have a progressive governor and legislature who can pick this state back up out of the trash and hopefully put a shine back on it.

Posted on 11/03/11 at 11:32 am in response to Despite tough talk on Vikings stadium, GOP legislative leaders duck and run for cover

Thank you for stating the obvious, which is apparently not very common in the media these days. That is that there is that Republican legislative leadership is the biggest oxymoron in the state.