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Rosalind Kohls

Glencoe, MN
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Posted on 03/19/12 at 12:38 pm in response to Strib publisher, philanthropist John Cowles Jr. dead at 82

I wouldn't be surprised at all if more people usually read the Powerline blog than the Doonesbury comic strip. Of course, this week with Doonesbury being forbidden fruit, a lot more adults in Minnesota read it online than they normally would, just to see what the fuss was about.
Also, the Star Tribune lets on that a lot of kids read its comic pages. I don't think many kids are reading Doonesbury at all. It's not particularly funny and most kids aren't going to get its lame jokes anyway...

Posted on 03/16/12 at 02:36 pm in response to 'The Road We've Traveled' under President Obama

It must be nice to have the income to "travel internationally." I would love that. Unfortunately, I'm one of the 37 percent who is financially worse off than I was in 2008. It's unlikely I will be able to travel internationally anytime soon, regardless of whether I'm ashamed of the president.

Posted on 03/15/12 at 01:12 pm in response to How's the general public feeling about Obamacare?

Obamacare is a huge government power grab. Never before has the federal government in this country commanded its citizens to buy a product and then fine them if they don't. What happens if the citizens choose not to pay the fine? They go to jail? If the Democrats and the Obama administration get away with this, there will be nothing the federal government can be prevented from doing. We can kiss our freedom goodbye.

Posted on 03/14/12 at 03:32 pm in response to Dayton on stadium bill: 'Sound, reliable and sufficient'

Recipients of the Prevention-oriented public health dollars shouldn't assume the money will keep flowing forever without measurements of the results. Starting immediately, recipients should keep track of weight loss, blood pressure, calories burned, whatever can be measured because this issue will come up again and again. There isn't money for everything. Programs that show results are more likely to get scarce funding than those which don't have measurements.

Posted on 03/12/12 at 01:57 pm in response to John Paton: Business model of newspapers is irretrievably broken

The willingness to pay for something to read has declined significantly in the past 50 years. It shows in the number of books and magazines purchased, as well as in newspapers. If news sites on the Internet become only for subscribers, then their readership will drop too. This also is why texting is more popular than emailing. There's less to read. Advertisers have noticed this lack of interest of reading in the public, and are waiting to see how publishers respond.

Posted on 03/06/12 at 05:20 pm in response to Another look at who is pushing Voter ID

It is a common suspicion that college students vote multiple times. First, they vote by absentee ballot in their home precinct. Then they roam from precinct to precinct voting under fake names in the city where their college is located. They don't believe this is cheating because "the ends justify the means." Whether this fraud is actually happening is unknown, but many people in Minnesota suspect it is.

Posted on 03/06/12 at 02:56 pm in response to Anoka-Hennepin settlement: Healing has only just begun

Now that a settlement has been reached, I would like to know what specifically the bullying behavior was that the gay students received and the staff turned a blind eye to that caused the gay students to commit suicide and the current gay students to feel bullied. No names need to be used. The only incident I know of is that a couple of lesbians were not allowed to hold hands and march in together at a school function. There had to be more than that.

Posted on 03/06/12 at 07:24 pm in response to Anoka-Hennepin settlement: Healing has only just begun

Did the staff witness these terrible incidents? And after witnessing these terrible incidents did they refuse to report them? Did the staff hear about the incidents afterward and refuse to report what they had heard?
It sounds as if bad things happened and the staff was blamed for the bad things that happened, regardless of whether they kew about them.

Posted on 03/05/12 at 04:26 pm in response to 'Tax the rich' still on Dayton's agenda

I have mixed feelings about Michael Coughlin's award. I'm thrilled that someone from Minnesota won it. At the same time it bothers me that to get his masters degree, he is going to the University of Cambridge in the UK to study gravitational waves. Is Cambridge's program superior to what Coughlin can get in the US? The US used to be on top of the world when it comes to science. It sounds as if we are now in decline and our best students are going out of the country.

Posted on 03/02/12 at 03:33 pm in response to More (and more) stadium reverberation

Restaurants and fast food outlets have been flooding the airwaves with commercials during Lent and prior to Ash Wednesday featuring fish sandwiches, fish wraps, fish tacos and seafood entrees. The industry obviously thinks a lot of Catholics will make choices about whether they eat fish during Lent according to their religious beliefs. The Democrats, on the other hand, think when Catholics enter the voting booth, their religious beliefs won't affect their choices on whether churches should...