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Ray Schoch

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Minneapolis, MN
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Posted on 04/12/13 at 10:49 am in response to Why is state health and human services spending growing so fast?

I don’t really understand the math behind genuine statistics, but even a mathematical illiterate can look at the chart of health care spending and see that it’s plainly unsustainable. Whether we like it or not, whether it serves our personal interests or not, whether it’s ethical or humane or heartless or some combination of all of these, change is coming. What we’ve been doing for the past half-century or so is beyond our resources and humanitarian instincts. We can’t continue in this...

Posted on 04/10/13 at 02:10 pm in response to I love New York, but ...

…is reality, I've read.

Almost nothing that seems important to Marlys is important to me from the standpoint of lifestyle, so much of this piece leaves me cold. Like a lot of males, I don't care about shopping. Theater's nice, but so is the Guthrie, and if I"m looking for something off the wall, there's something off the wall at one of the half dozen or so quite credible "alternative" theaters here. If I had to, I could adapt to New York, but I haven't been there since I was on the...

Posted on 04/10/13 at 01:26 pm in response to Repair of special-ed funding gap is missing from omnibus ed bill

…Sean Olsen's commentary, especially that last sentence. Republicans are in no position to criticize DFL failures in this area — and they ARE failures — when Republicans had their own opportunity to fix the situation and punted instead.

Meanwhile, if your child needs special ed services, both of you are getting the shaft, again, from the people who supposedly represent you and your interests in St. Paul.

Posted on 04/09/13 at 04:14 pm in response to House DFL adding $50 million to Dayton's bonding proposal

@ Steve Titterud: It might be more interesting to charge the $15 to people who want to leave the stadium BEFORE that game is over. That serves both owner greed and fan mercy.

Posted on 04/09/13 at 04:48 pm in response to Guns and bioethics: a Q&A with Steve Miles

I'm on board with Ms. Sullivan.

I've often wondered about the accuracy of NRA claims that there are huge numbers of people every year successfully defending themselves and their homes and families via firearms. If that were the case, wouldn't those "home defense" incidents be showing up in the news media? Only a genuine idiot fights off a home invasion with his trusty .357 magnum and then doesn't bother to report that incident to law enforcement. Meanwhile, there are distressingly...

Posted on 04/09/13 at 04:32 pm in response to North Dakota Supreme Court denies Crystal Sugar’s rehearing

…of corporate benevolence. Not only will we lock you out, we'll do all we can to deny you any form of sustenance. The objective, one might argue, is something close to slavery.

“Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be concerned, they therefore do as they like.” — …Edward Thurlow, Lord Chancellor of England, 1731-1806

Posted on 04/09/13 at 10:19 am in response to David Carr on alt-weeklies, phone apps and all things media

Thanks for this, Brian. Quite a few of the friends I've made over the past years in Colorado and Minnesota have been writers, and a couple write, or wrote, for media of various kinds. One was a newspaper columnist who left the local daily just before the current collapse of the industry set in, providing support for the notion that "timing is everything." I confess I've never paid much attention to the inner workings of journalism, so pieces like this allow me a glimpse behind the Oz curtain...

Posted on 04/09/13 at 04:24 pm in response to David Carr on alt-weeklies, phone apps and all things media

John Edwards has a point in his first paragraph, but then, predictably, descends into his own snarkiness.

It might come as a surprise to him, but there are humans, some of them female, who enjoy sexual activity. Some of those humans also support women's rights, perhaps even in ways that make Mr. Edwards uncomfortable. He might want to choose his words a bit more carefully next time.

And as long as we're dealing with the snarky, yes MinnPost has its share, and perhaps more, of...

Posted on 04/09/13 at 10:38 am in response to Global temp trends may have paused, but hold off on the champagne awhile

According to most of the gardening and horticultural sources I regularly use as an enthusiastic xeric gardener, Denver and Minneapolis are both in Zone 4. Having lived in both places for several years, I can now testify truthfully that horticultural zones definitely do not tell the whole story. Even if the climate-change sky is not falling, a gradual change from the Minnesota climate of yesteryear to one more like Omaha will have rather important effects on everything from tourism to...

Posted on 04/08/13 at 11:37 am in response to Mark Rotenberg will take post at Johns Hopkins

I don't know Mr. Rotenberg, nor do I have any contacts or association with The U, but I'm inclined to agree with what's implied by Mr. Carlson's assessment.

While I'm not sure "bloat" is quite the right term, I can't think of any circumstances where the chief counsel for a university should be taking home multiples of the salary of the university president.

But then, I can't think of any circumstances where the head coach of a university team — any team, any sport — should...