[image_caption]Former Minnesota U.S. Sen. David Durenberger[/image_caption]
Bring Me the News’ Tommy Wiita reports the ‘Driver’s Licenses for All’ bill has passed the Minnesota House and is headed for the Senate.
Emily Beal, of Forum News Service, has the the origin story of the Bobcat skid steer, invented by two Minnesota brothers to clean manure off a barn floor.
The Duluth News Tribune’s Melinda Lavine reports fat tire bikers are biking the roughly 200 miles of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon route.
Sahan Journal’s Andrew Hazzard reports a new film features nine Minnesotans of diverse backgrounds who are fighting for climate solutions.
The Star Tribune’s Brooks Johnson writes that Post Consumer Brands and the brand OK Go are disputing over Post’s new cereal, called OK GO!
Eden Prairie Local News’ Frank Farrell reports on a federal investigation involving a search warrant on an Eden Prairie home. “Residents of the neighborhood of Welters Way in Eden Prairie were startled awake in the early hours of Jan. 12 as a group of heavily armed police officers descended upon a home located at 11631 Welters Way,” Farrell reports.
RIP Dave Durenberger, Review of his book:
Minnesota’s progressive Republican Party stood not for big or small government but for effective government. Issues that are anathema to today’s GOP—environmental protection, assistance for vulnerable citizens, and economic opportunity for low-wage workers and the middle class—were at the heart of the party’s agenda. Minnesota Republicans held that working across the aisle was a mark of strength, not of weakness or disloyalty.
Senator Dave Durenberger grew up in and helped build that party. In this powerful work of history and witness, he explains how Minnesota’s progressive Republicans earned voters’ trust and delivered on their promises—and how progressive ideas fell out of favor when an increasingly anti-government, anti-tax national party shifted Minnesota Republican thinking to the right. In the ensuing partisan realignment, both the Republican and the Democratic parties have lost public trust. With eloquence and insight, Durenberger argues that the principles and practices of progressive Republicanism are a fitting remedy for what ails American democracy today.
https://www.amazon.com/When-Republicans-Were-Progressive-Durenberger/dp/168134078X
A book well worth reading, especially for those of us who have lived in Minnesota long enough to remember the decades of which he speaks. He shows us what responsible conservatism used to look like.
“Post Consumer Brands and the brand OK Go are disputing over Post’s new cereal, called OK GO!”
Correction: The BAND “OK Go” is in a dispute with Post over the BRAND.
Dave Durenberger was the last Republican I ever voted for.
Sen. Durenberger was the ONLY Republican I ever voted for. Upstart Bob Short grabbed the DFL nomination in 1978 and many of us found him repulsive.
I never regretted my vote for Durenberger. He was a man of integrity. I wish we had more of those.