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Karin Noren

Chaska, MN
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4 years 2 weeks

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Posted on 12/23/11 at 01:55 pm in response to GOP leaders take heat for misleading public on Koch affair

Concerning the Stillwater bridge project, if I am not mistaken, the funding has been approved, if not used within a certain time it disappears, and, it is not able to be reallocated to the states other needs, it expires, also, I imagine the funding involves the needs to two states, not just Minnesota. And a bigger bridge is needed - the whole area in both states has grown a lot over the ensuing time since it was first built.

Posted on 12/01/11 at 08:05 pm in response to World Meteorological Organization concludes planet is getting warmer

CO2 is released into the air when we burn fossil fuels. It retains heat. The biggest indicator of this is that it is becoming more and more necessary to use air conditioning, because night temperatures are NOT dropping. How many of you are old enough to remember that even during very hot summers, evening and night temperatures would almost always drop down to at least 70 degrees if not 65, so sleeping was relatively comfortable. It wasn't until within the last 20 years that it...

Posted on 11/17/11 at 05:22 pm in response to Neorenaissance: Republicans Cut Top Science Office by 1/3

Really, Mr. Tester. We need scientists in government with knowledge of how science really works,, so that those who are ignorant of those things do not do so much harm in the legislation they think should pass.

It also follows, that educators make better determinations of what can be done to inprove our schools, is they come out of the working fields of education rather that the sometimes disconnected fields of administration and academia.

I learned of this when I went back...

Posted on 11/17/11 at 05:48 pm in response to Obama administration to lawmakers: Work out a deal on St. Croix bridge

Let us throw a little common sense in here.

1. The current traffic back ups do nothing to promote the historic business district. It makes going down there a nightmare. I do not think most people saying realize how constricted that area is.

2. Considering the St Croix River runs along most of the considerable length of the Wisconsin/Minnesota border and is continued to the end by the joining with the Mississippi to the southern border of the two states, saying this will...

Posted on 11/17/11 at 12:45 am in response to Why do we have so much income inequality?

seems it is only the money handlers that are raking it in... hmmm.

Posted on 11/10/11 at 03:54 pm in response to On marriage amendment, Catholic Church leaders would be well served by words of the Gospel and history

t they did get the civil rights of a married couple which is what gay couples want, in terms of hospital visitation, inheritance, care and many other things which the Church has no say in.

That is what this is all about!

Posted on 11/10/11 at 11:35 pm in response to On marriage amendment, Catholic Church leaders would be well served by words of the Gospel and history

Oops, had lost the first part of my post.... Just pointing out that many years ago, it was well understood that divorced Catholics could not remarry in the church and thus would go to the court house and have a ceremony preformed by a JP or a judge.... This civilmarriage was their only option most of the time to get the legal rights and privileges due a married couple and at least in the eyes of the state, make their union legitimate. These are the rights and privileges of inheritance...

Posted on 11/01/11 at 12:00 pm in response to Melting the Arctic: Causes and victims

Well put, Mr. Shelby,
I think this is something most people do not want to face up to. We do not like change, and a lot of it is coming our way. But drilling in the Arctic? Do not know what to say. Just as some prefer the very dirty oil of the Canadian oil sands to the relative clean sweet crude oil of the Bakken field though neither method of extraction is earth friendly, there is a lot of politics and other attitudes involved. Thanks for this comprehensive article - at least...

Posted on 10/31/11 at 05:03 pm in response to Kline: Obama student loan program is a 'mistake'

State support of higher education has been cut dramatically and systematically over the past several years. Collage tuition has been growing much faster than inflation and cost of living.
It is from our educated young families that we gain our next generation of well educated young people.

What happens when they can not afford to raise this new generation??

Short sightednes seems to be in great supply!!!

It seems that the top 1% are not even thinking beyond...

Posted on 10/27/11 at 04:39 pm in response to Dayton and Koch 'open' to Legacy money for Vikes stadium

A football stadium is not what we had in mind when we voted for the amendment!!!! Football is a commercial enterprise, and we should remember that it is on a big scale. It is a sport, not an art or and environmental enterprise, except perhaps in the sense that part of it will be the cleanup of the site and the pollution of the water aquifer that has been an issue now for many years.... I have been aware of it since my return to the twin cities area in 1985. About time something is done...