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Jim Elwell

Burnsville, MN
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4 years 28 weeks

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Posted on 07/12/12 at 12:23 pm in response to Minnesota amendment wording can affect votes, experts say

As has been noted before, Secretary of State Ritchie is doing the job he was elected to do. The Minnesota House and Senate write and vote on the ballot questions while the Secretary of State prepares the short title which appears on the ballot.

From the Minnesota House research staff:

"The secretary of state, with approval of the attorney general, prepares a short title to identify each amendment on the ballot. The ballot question specified by the legislature appears under the...

Posted on 11/23/11 at 02:51 pm in response to Superbug fragments found in state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant; study done in Duluth

This is interesting research and nice work by the UofM students involved, but the PR flacks need to take a chill pill.

The paper reports the detection of _fragments_ (molecular probes are extremely sensitive) of drug-resistance related genes in treated waste water.

The paper does not report the detection of intact genes. And certainly does not report the presence of viable drug-resistant bacteria.

Yet the UofM press release is:

"New study finds that even the...

Posted on 11/15/11 at 11:54 am in response to Survey: 87% oppose Thanksgiving Day store hours

I'd like to thank Tom Webb for bringing my attention to the assault on traditional Thanksgiving posed by having stores open on Thanksgiving. The thought of someone actually shopping on Thanksgiving Day threatens my decades old tradition of watching football in a tryptophan-induced stupor.

Something must be done. I call on the MN House and Senate (along with Minnesota Majority) to drop everything else and focus on passing a Defense of Thanksgiving Amendment.

Posted on 07/15/10 at 01:10 pm in response to Media event: Prankster dumps $20.02 in pennies on Emmer

"Meanwhile, over on FoxNews, (to whom Pawlenty fed this dubious assertion on the persistently ditsy “Fox and Friends”), “FoxForum” is feeling no doubt at all."

Ironically, the individual over at FoxForum who is feeling "no doubt at all" about obvious fraud is no less than John R. Lott, Jr.

You've probably heard of him - he gained some notoriety a few years back when he amitted to making up a fake on-line persona ("Mary Rosh") to gush about his own teaching, books, and...

Posted on 11/11/08 at 03:05 pm in response to New allegation surfaces in Coleman case

One of the interesting nuggets buried in the second suit is that Kazeminy apparently used DMT as a personal ATM to disburse funds to family members (Exhibit D in the complaint) who had not provided services to the company.

Not a smoking gun, but it does suggest a suspicious pattern of behavior.