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John Slade

Saint Paul, MN
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4 years 23 weeks

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Posted on 12/20/12 at 01:43 pm in response to Bottom line: Here’s the biggest problem with the Constitution

Minor quibble on a good series - you say that we have had "an executive from a party that controls neither house" for the past two years - hasn't it been six years since that was the case?

Posted on 10/27/11 at 11:55 am in response to Tear gas and mayhem at Occupy Oakland: help or hindrance to the cause?

I want to think that this is a story without a pro-police bias, but to claim that Oscar Grant was "a man who was fatally shot while resisting arrest by Bay Area Rapid Transit police in 2009" is baloney. As videos clearly show, Grant was in handcuffs, face down on the platform when the officer drew his gun and shot him in the back of the head. The right to assemble has been under hard attack in the US for the last 30 years.

Posted on 01/12/11 at 03:38 pm in response to Minneapolis-St. Paul launches a new job-growth initiative to regain its momentum -- and its identity

One of the reasons we've had a good economy and generally good numbers in terms of low income inequality has been the high union density. Are these two Democratic mayors carrying this message to the business leaders of the Itasca project? Or is there a quiet anti-union, or shove-the-issue-under-the-carpet take from them?

Posted on 09/17/10 at 02:16 pm in response to Minnesota grad student at the center of clash over animal liberation and research

When the Flint sit-down strike in 1935 happened, people were up in arms about the 'criminal syndicalists' who were messing with Mr. Ford's property. When the lunch counter sit-ins happened, people go up in arms about the 'outside agitators' (for the whites) and there were some less-printable terms too (for the blacks) who took part in these 'illegal protests'. And when a bunch of colonists dressed up like Indians to toss a bunch of corporate British tea in Boston Harbor (remember those?)...

Posted on 12/09/08 at 09:56 pm in response to Urban grocery: an important step in neighborhood revival

""The impact goes way beyond the 30,000 square-foot size of the project," said Patrick Seeb, president of the St. Paul Riverfront Corp. "Psychologically, it lifts the downtown beyond the point of just being a place for urban pioneers."

I know firsthand that Seeb is right. There's something special about a supermarket — especially a high-end store like Lunds — coming into a developing urban community. For residents carving out new lives in and among old factories and warehouses, it's a...