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Margaret Redmond

St Paul
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5 years 14 weeks

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Posted on 09/20/12 at 11:48 am in response to Norm Coleman's anti-Rick Nolan ad deemed 'misleading'

On Meet the Press , Romney defined "middle income" as "$200,000 to $250,000 and less." The US Census Bureau defines median US income as $50,000.
(This citation is in many places, including Sept. 14 Washington Post.) So, his remarks insinuating that 47% of US citizens are moochers off the the government fits right in with this version of the world.

In addition to showing contempt for people like seniors on Social Security, and my sibling who's on total military disability, Mitt...

Posted on 05/02/12 at 06:36 pm in response to Voter ID? We don't see the need

My mother, mentally sharp, but frail and physically wheel-chair bound and living in a nursing home, would need to pay for the following, to get that ID: 1) She'd have to hire a van equipped with a wheel-chair lift, plus an attendant, to take her to get the photo ID. 2) I assume that she would, upon receiving the ID in the mail, then have to repeat the process to take that ID to the local polling place to register. I do not know if she would then have to 3) return to the polling place to...

Posted on 06/09/11 at 07:19 pm in response to State employees speak: 'When something shuts down, it shuts down'

I am glad that the Governor is continuing to insist on needing new revenue in Minnesota's budget. I'm dismayed at the mean-spiritedness of the IR's, in the way their cuts will hurt so many of the poor and the unemployed, who are already hurting. The shortsightedness regarding investment in our future--ie, education K-16--is also appalling.

I wonder if the IR is aware that it is taxes that fund coordinating services such as immediate help for the Mpls tornado victims.

My husband...

Posted on 03/03/11 at 01:26 pm in response to Freezing pay for K-12 educators: pros and cons

What happened to the sacred value of local control? Isn't that why we have local school boards in each community?
Republicans are always hollering against "big government."How hypocritical is it for them to impose this huge top-down mandate on each school district?
What's next? Standardizing all school calendars? Requiring uniforms? Choosing every district's textbooks?

Posted on 09/11/09 at 05:22 pm in response to Pawlenty on offense as Obama readies for health rally

I absolutely do NOT understand why, every time Gov. Pawlenty makes a negative remark about expanding health care, or cuts coverage for another few thousand poor Minnesotans, we do not see a story detailing the specifics of the Governor's own outstanding Minnesota Employee plan (which we taxpayers fund...)

So, look at a few of these info sources, and dig around.
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Posted on 08/27/09 at 12:43 pm in response to Document: New publisher must keep undoing Star Tribune's 'strongly liberal' image

Actually, I think (per Mr. Collins' remarks) that there's an all-too-common belief that the "non-partisan thing" is dominant everywhere except the editorial pages. I find that, despite an occasional progressive or liberal stance on the editorial pages, the Strib has a VERY conservative bias in what it selects for its "news" pages.
What it covers at all, what it leaves in, and what it leaves out, show it to be a much more conservative paper than it was 8 years ago, when we subscribed....

Posted on 06/25/09 at 06:52 pm in response to Get ready for MPR's Newscue ... or NewsQueue ... or ...

Sandwiched in between way, way too much coverage on Michael Jackson (and much more coverage than on health care lobbyists) was a plea for more money from the station...just a reminder of how the station has lost its nerve to cover real stories, and is trying to attract the supermarket tabloid crowd...