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Ray Marshall

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Posted on 07/27/12 at 03:38 pm in response to Where are Minnesota’s most crash-prone intersections?

Hiawatha is the newest "freeway" in the city, they spent upwards of a billion dollars on it and the light rail line parallel to it and already is it has the honor of having the second most dangerous intersection in the city.

It also has the worst traffic signal controls in the city. In the effort to make sure that no car would ever beat the light rail train to the airport or to downtown, they seem to have given the cross streets as many minutes of green as does Hiawatha. And the...

Posted on 07/26/12 at 06:40 pm in response to Chick-fil-A, politics and social media: A cautionary tale

"It doesn't make sense for a business owner to be red or blue when the people are all green $$$."

You mean that gas station owner must subordinate his personal beliefs to his income. Is there a law that says the owner must maximize income and do nothing to obstruct that?

Should any company that sells replacement parts for Edsels and Studebakers change their business model?

Posted on 07/13/12 at 12:10 pm in response to Collegeville priest's speech against marriage amendment goes viral

Why do these priests who don't believe in the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church stay in it. It must be for the money. Such hypocrites.

Martin Luther gave them the way 500 years ago. Be your own church and interpreter of the bible. And now there are 30,000 protestant denominations. Surely there is room for one more for "father" Pierson. Of course, he can't call himself "father" if he becomes a member of some of those 30,000 denominations.

Posted on 07/11/12 at 03:52 pm in response to Former priests against marriage amendment near 100 signatory mark

Just why would 90 of the 95 priests not want their names published. Virtually all of them haven't been priests for 30 or more years.

As a matter of fact, what credibility does an ex-priest have on this issue? They left the Church a long time ago and the majority of them oppose many of the issues taught by the Church? You sure don't see them at Pro-Life demonstrations.

Posted on 07/25/12 at 04:28 pm in response to Former priests against marriage amendment near 100 signatory mark

A condition of employment at MinnPost surely is opposition to the Marriage Protection Amendment

You keep posting the article, and I can understand that, it is popular. Why don't you acknowledge the the fact that the person who wrote the article doesn't know anything about the Catholic Church and have her correct her errors?

It's still amazing that you don't post all 100 of the names. Are they afraid that the Knights of Columbus will come and chop off their heads with their...

Posted on 07/10/12 at 05:12 pm in response to Minnesota Democrats on board with Obama tax plan

Tax, mandate, it's all dollars.

How many families making less than 40,000 a year who don't have medical insurance now have a few hundred dollars in their wallets at the end of each month?

Will veterans who get their medial care from the VA be required to get medical insurance? I've never once seen a mention of medical care for vets.

Posted on 07/06/12 at 11:18 am in response to Why Americans want to spend more on health care

Everyone seems to think it is wonderful that the healthcare legislation requires that all of us should pay for medical insurance if our employer does not provide it.

Just how many, do you suppose, who don't have medical insurance have a few hundred dollars that they are socking away in savings accounts each month that they can use to pay for a health insurance premium?

I'd bet that the number would be 0-5%.

Are veterans who are getting their medical care from the...

Posted on 06/26/12 at 11:47 am in response to Minnesota’s planning laws lag behind the leaders

If there is going to be a statewide planning law it should be restricted to those areas where there is likely to be growth. Geographically, 3/4 of the state seems to be declining in population, due to lower birth rates and lack of job opportunities.

Government has this "equal protection" obsession that if we're going to do something, we do it to everybody. But everybody does not need it. Ask the folks in Lincoln County about jobs and population growth.

Let local people and...

Posted on 06/22/12 at 01:53 pm in response to Katherine Stewart: How Christian clubs in schools turned into faith-based bullying

Putting literature on a desk. How cruel!

Here's a tip. Take it and keep tearing them up in front of them and putting them in the recycling bin. Literature costs money. They eventually they will get the hint.

Posted on 05/25/12 at 11:30 am in response to Star Tribune defends rejection of priests' anti-marriage-amendment letter

There is no such thing as an ex-priest. But that is beside the point for the purposes relating to Brauer's article..

Those 77 anonymous priests were no doubt men who left the priesthood in the 60s, 70s and 80s in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council. They are no longer Church ministers and are entitled to their own opinions.

Even the Strib probably recognized that fact.

The Catholic Church, contrary to what its enemies say, rarely punishes its critics. At most...