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Tom Clark

Muscatel, California
Commenter for
2 years 18 weeks

Recent Comments

Posted on 05/04/12 at 02:51 pm in response to Don't put your Amy Senser story next to an ad with a roadside ditch

What's egregious is when I visit sites and get bombarded by obnoxious political ads that I know are being deliberately placed for my reading displeasure.

Posted on 04/27/12 at 01:17 pm in response to GOP state convention: short of cash but plenty of Paul delegates

Klobuchar isn't particularly vulnerable, but I understand the need for the pep talk at a convention. I'm not convinced the Ron Paul revolution is more than an inch deep though.

Posted on 04/25/12 at 10:30 am in response to Kurt Bills gains advantage for GOP Senate endorsement

and endorses candidates who best please the true believers. Mark Dayton was right to not "abide" by the endorsement process and the DFL can be very thankful he didn't. Otherwise they'd also be living through what Wisconsin has for the past two years.

Posted on 04/26/12 at 09:12 am in response to Kurt Bills gains advantage for GOP Senate endorsement

Name recognition didn't seem to help Pat "Anderson" Awada much when she lost to Rebecca Otto, so maybe the voters aren't quite as dumb as you seem to think they are.

Posted on 04/18/12 at 12:31 pm in response to Every day is tax day somewhere in Minnesota

For a very informative article that give me a much better idea about both state revenue and spending.

Posted on 04/16/12 at 08:03 pm in response to Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds block of Voter ID

Minnesota is also building new interchanges on Hwy 36 in addition to the bridge. The actual bridge costs are being split 50/50 between Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Posted on 04/09/12 at 11:51 am in response to Twin Cities’ exurban housing boom stalls — perhaps for good

While I think that gas prices and the great recession have both had an impact on settlement patterns favoring cities, it's too soon to declare the death of the suburb/exurb given how people are even now responding to higher gas prices by choosing vehicles with better gas mileage. I'm also not sure the Twin Cities can accommodate further urban growth in the short term given the resistance to the sort of high density housing that you see in truly urbanized areas like Chicago. I think what...

Posted on 04/10/12 at 02:57 pm in response to Twin Cities’ exurban housing boom stalls — perhaps for good

As a boomer with two retired parents who have lived in Florida for over thirty years now, all I can say about walkable amenities and the elderly is that old folks down there still drive a lot. So I don't think aging is going to get us out of our cars all by itself.

Posted on 03/26/12 at 08:36 am in response to Govs. Dayton and Walker to discuss new St. Croix bridge

is hold up improvements to Hwy 36. That won't stop the new bridge from being built, however.

Posted on 03/20/12 at 08:06 am in response to Racino plan dies (another) death

Whether or not it violates an ethics rule at the University of Minnesota, I think someone who was a chief ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration should have the decency to not advise others about their ethics.