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My blog, to be clear, is not yet "live," but still being tweaked. I expect to take it live soon, and I will let you know when I do so.
Maybe I should put it behind a paywall,in case I say anything interesting about the Vikings.
If you haven't read it, Rachel's column is posted and available from this McClatchy (ironic, huh?)news-feed: http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2578625/
Blount deserves credit for being brave enough to utter heresy in the Cathedral, whispering treasonous thoughts about the Vikings in the middle of a temple that is hyping...
The ironically named Mr Swift (an erstwhile candidate for the St Paul School Board) proves his education remains incomplete:
According to inflation calculators, if Mr Swift had $100 in 1984, he would need $204 (as of 2008) to retain the same purchasing power (a 104-percent increase). Point being: The 78 percent increase he cites in K-12 school spending since 1984 would mean that schools are running at about 26 percent less than they were when he was flunking Math.
Dear Mr Managing Editor of the Good Old P-B: As a former subscriber to the Good Old P-B, let me say that no one covers Rochester better than its daily newspaper. But that hardly makes the Good Old P-B a media outlet that sets the tone or shapes the coverage of stories outside the Zumbro River basin. We were talking about the Washington Post and the Strib and such. Without any disrespect whatsoever aimed at the Good Old P-B. And without ANY INFERENCE that the Good Old P-B hasn't been up to...
In reply to Paul Scott, I was not defending the WashPo story on Mayo, nor did I "relieve" myself on the Mayo Clinic, which I firmly believe to be a shining light in the health care debate and an important model for reform. (Does a person have to stand up and sing, "Hail, Mayo!" as a caveat every time the clinic comes up in conversation?) Inadvertently, however, Mr Scott illustrates the prevailing attitude of many large and important institutions: Any criticism or close examination of an...
Easier to criticize a beloved institution from 1,000 miles away? You bet your life.
In 1980, while I was stationed in Rochester as the southern Minnesota correspondent for the Tribune (which merged w/ the Star to make the Strib two years later), I wrote a week-long front page series examining the political, cultural and social impact on Rochester and the region of the 800-lb Gorilla in a doctor's smock known as the Mayo Clinic. I was ably assisted in this effort by Lew Cope, the...
FYI: Jennings was a GOP state representative, not a senator. He was House Speaker during the mid-1980s.
Pete Hegseth continues to be the darling of the right in Minnesota and, no doubt, will be a candidate for federal office from his home state in the near future. I wish him luck. But to describe Hegseth's Vets for Freedom as a nonpartisan group is part of an on-going effort to disguise the group's origins as a Bush Administration stalking horse, intended to pump up public support for the Iraq War in the waning months of Dick Cheney's hold on foreign policy. I give props to the service of all...
Mr. Grow's enthusiasm is enjoyable but his long list of disclosures/conflicts is troubling and the piece is awkward reading, especially juxtaposed on MinnPost next to Jay Weiner's set up for the next big public subsidy drive for the Vikings. According to Forbes, Carl Pohlad (RIP) rode a billion-dollar increase in his net worth (to $3.6 billion just before last Fall's market crash) after Hennepin County bestowed $500 million on the Pohlad family business from the taxpayers. (The next Forbes...
The nickname "T-Paw" was coined as a convenient moniker for Pawlenty by the Gov's staff at the beginning of his first term... It is not disrespectful, but it is in almost universal usage. A-Klo? Not so much.