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Sally Sorensen

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Hutchinson, MN
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Posted on 05/09/13 at 09:00 am in response to The real heroes of the gay marriage debate

As a junior at St. Peter High School, I shocked my classmates by being the only one to speak in favor of "homosexual liberation" in a current affairs discussion in Mr. Smart's class. Lots of people hooted, including Mr. Smart. It wasn't pleasant but it didn't change my mind.

But as word got around, gay, bi and lesbian students came out to me. I was a bit rattled, but it didn't take long to realize that my friends hadn't changed--they were the same people they had always been. Only...

Posted on 04/01/13 at 10:14 am in response to Are we really leaving the future of Minnesota's wolves up to hunters/trappers and livestock producers?

It's not central to the argument here, but the notion that caribou, moose and bison "used to occupy most of Minnesota" doesn't seem grounded in fact. The bison in Minnesota were prairie mammals, the woodland caribou a creature of the North Woods, and moose wandered Northern Minnesota.

Wolves definitely lives throughout the state, while two species of elk (a prairie and a woodland species) split the state by major ecosystems.

Moreover, to imply that the DNR's moose management...

Posted on 03/26/13 at 02:20 pm in response to Dayton administration offers two versions of e-pulltab estimates

Please correct the staff writer credit on the Mac Hammond story. Olivia LaVecchia reported it. Thanks.

Posted on 02/25/13 at 04:36 pm in response to Oil tanker traffic soon on the Great Lakes?

Remember those Hutch Tech jobs that went to Eau Claire? And that Republicans tried to credit to Walker's tax credits?

As it was, HTI wasn't eligible for the credits, since it had been doing business in Wisconsin for a while.

As things have worked out, the Eau Claire plant has now closed, and those jobs that weren't off-shored to Thailand. . . ,have come back to Minnesota as the company consolidates its facilities.

Does that count?

Posted on 02/07/13 at 05:14 pm in response to Amy Koch media saga: Who did what and when

Perhaps I'm not reading this carefully enough, but I'm curious whether Amy Koch contacted the various reporters who covered her "new" revelations on her own or if another did on her behalf.

Regardless of who made the contacts, I'm also curious about which journalists were selected for the interviews she gave recently.

Koch had had extensive contact with the media while Majority Leader, but journalist friends at the time mentioned that their access to her and to state senators...

Posted on 02/04/13 at 08:03 pm in response to Frank Vennes and the Petters Ponzi scheme: a long, mysterious tale

for compiling this narrative of the sorry tale.

Posted on 01/09/13 at 04:09 pm in response to Union president rips Minneapolis three-lockout law firm

Norm Coleman's comments about Franken's invisibility are pure bizarro world stuff. He made the comment comparing Franken to Klobuchar.

Putting aside the fact that Klobuchar ran for office this year, and thus showed up in election news, Franken's pretty visible in the rural newspapers, both from columns and coverage of his local appearances. Why do I suspect Coleman doesn't read those same papers out in DC?

Paulsen, on the other hand, likely has no presence at all, outside of...

Posted on 12/18/12 at 01:47 pm in response to Minnesota Legislature to review — and maybe revise — gun control laws

Good article, but while Representative Cornish may live in the Vernon Center area, he served as the Chief of Police for nearby Lake Crystal. He announced in 2011 that he was retiring and now describes himself as a "retired cop" on his Facebook page.

Posted on 11/21/12 at 11:29 am in response to Judge orders 35 random ballots tossed in tight House race

Gary Gross has emerged from his den and seen Alida Messinger's shadow in the Environmental Quality Board, St. Cloud Time's reporter Mark Sommerhauser, and nearly everything.

Experts say this means we'll see the arrival of winter sometime in the next six weeks.

Posted on 11/13/12 at 02:20 pm in response to GOP's election woes analyzed by Tim Penny and Steve Sviggum

What a kidder that Sviggum is! His caucus used the MNGOP to send multiple attack direct mail pieces to voters in swing districts savaging candidates like Owatonna's newly elected Not-Emo Senator Vicki Jensen, re-elected Kevin Dahle and others, plus cable ads ran in those districts.

And is the tab in yet for the IE dollars spent--or for the "dark money" mailings that didn't actually say "vote for" or "vote against"? Some hard data might be nice instead of just the opinion of a guy...