August 31, 2005 - 'Code of integrity' proposed for Secretary of State
"A DFL candidate for Secretary of State called Tuesday for a 'code of integrity' that would bar formal partisan activity by the office, but the Republican incumbent countered that she has always followed such ethical standards..."
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August 31, 2005 - New Rules Could Allow Power Plants to Pollute More
"The Bush administration has drafted regulations that would ease pollution controls on older, dirtier power plants and could allow those that modernize to emit more pollution, rather than less..."
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August 30, 2005 - National poverty rate increases for 4th straight year
"With the Midwest leading the way, the nation's poverty rate went up in 2004 for the fourth straight year even as the U.S. economy strengthened, the Census Bureau said Tuesday..."
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August 30, 2005 - Morning-After Maneuvers
"Just when we thought that the Food and Drug Administration had run out of excuses to avoid ruling on whether the morning-after pill should be made available without a prescription, the agency found yet another lame reason to delay..."
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August 30, 2005 - Coping with Katrina
"Among American cities, New Orleans' history is unique. It has been ravaged by disease, flooded, fought over during wars and looted by corrupt politicians..."
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August 30, 2005 - Welcome to the club
"About a year ago, just after the first anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, I wrote that I was starting a club. The idea was to give voice to a perspective that isn't usually heard in this era of extreme, blindly partisan politics where you're tossed into either one camp or another — and you're expected to stay in your assigned seats..."
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August 30, 2005 - Two big unions approve two-year state contracts
"Members of state government's two largest employee unions have overwhelmingly approved new two-year labor contracts in voting that was tallied on Monday..."
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August 30, 2005 - Yecke quits House race, takes job in Florida
"Cheri Pierson Yecke, a lightning rod for liberal critics and conservative supporters during her short tenure as Minnesota education commissioner, abandoned her campaign for the Sixth District U.S. House seat Monday to take a job overseeing Florida schools..."
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August 30, 2005 - Editorial: War wounds/Shield the most vulnerable
""War is hell," said Civil War Gen. William T. Sherman, and he didn't know the half of it. In his century, just 5 percent of those killed and wounded in war were civilians. These days, the figure is nearly 90 percent -- and most of these victims are women and children..."
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August 29, 2005 - Lies, damned lies and poverty statistics
"Each August, we Americans tell ourselves a lie. Tomorrow, the Census Bureau will release the official poverty rates for 2004. Pundits, politicians, the press and the president will almost certainly rehearse empty remarks on why poverty is higher or lower than last year, and attribute this failure or success to things that really have nothing to do with poverty's true causes. This entire episode is profoundly dishonest..."
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August 29, 2005 - Congress ought to offer this coverage
"The story of a Navy enlisted man and his pregnant wife is not pleasant to talk about. The couple faced a terrible decision. A routine ultrasound revealed that their baby had a fatal condition called anencephaly..."
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August 29, 2005 - Paul Mulshine: A trifecta of terrible prospects for the GOP
"Don't say I didn't warn you. Last year I pointed out that it might be better for the Republican Party if George W. Bush would follow the example of the prior Texan in the White House..."
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August 29, 2005 - Editorial: 'No Child' law/Another call to fix flaws
"Put another notch in the belt of the growing movement to reform No Child Left Behind. Last week, Connecticut became the first state to file suit against the Bush administration's signature education law, calling it a "rigid, arbitrary and capricious" mandate that is drastically underfunded..."
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August 29, 2995 - Destroying the National Parks
"Most of us think of America's national parks as everlasting places, parts of the bedrock of how we know our own country. But they are shaped and protected by an underlying body of legislation, which is distilled into a basic policy document that governs their operation.."
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August 28, 2005 - Show me the Science
"Blue Hill, Me. PRESIDENT BUSH, announcing this month that he was in favor of teaching about "intelligent design" in the schools, said, "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought." A couple of weeks later, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the Republican leader, made the same point..."
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August 28, 2005 - Set a time frame for U.S. to exit Iraq
"It's been nearly 30 months since President Bush gave a triumphant speech about Iraq, declaring "Mission accomplished." But while he was right to celebrate the skill and bravery of the U.S. military forces that deposed Saddam Hussein, he was wrong about where we stood..."
Read More...
August 28, 2005 - Editorial: Hear no evil/Politics vs. inconvenient facts
"A recent Justice Department study has found that black and Hispanic motorists are more likely than whites to be searched and roughed up by law enforcement officers during traffic stops, the New York Times and the Washington Post reported last week..."
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August 28, 2005 - Editorial: Welfare sequel/A fading promise
"Some 15 years ago Minnesota embarked on an experiment in welfare reform that would earn it a national reputation in social science circles. Its strategy was exemplary: scrupulous empirical research and bipartisan accord in the Legislature..."
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August 28, 2005 - Evading Responsibility, Again
"After four and a half years, we have come to expect the Bush administration to refuse to hold anyone of stature accountable for errors, misdeeds or even potential violations of the law..."
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August 27, 2005 - FDA Delays Decision On Plan B Contraceptive
"After 28 months of growing controversy, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday indefinitely postponed its decision on whether women should be allowed to buy the "morning-after pill" Plan B without a prescription -- despite earlier assurances that it would act by Thursday..."
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August 27, 2005 - Tobacco industry contests state fee
"Big tobacco companies and several Minnesota distributors are taking their dislike of the state's new 75-cent-per-pack cigarette "health impact fee" to court, saying it violates the multibillion dollar settlement reached with the state seven years ago..."
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August 27, 2005 - Myles Spicer: Defenders of Wal-Mart savings didn't pay attention to chain's costs
"In an Aug. 4 Commentary page article, Pankaj Ghemawat and Ken A. Markis claimed that "Wal-Mart helps the rural poor." To me, such a claim is absolutely ludicrous..."
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August 27, 2005 - Ken Lessley: 'What they died for' in Iraq is a mystery
"President Bush spoke in Utah Monday defending his policies and practices in Iraq, and I have to say he seems focused solely on getting his agenda accomplished, regardless of who has to die unnecessarily in the process..."
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August 27, 2005 - Editorial: It's back/Citizens League is still needed
"For 53 years, the Citizens League "has punched above its weight." So writes John Matlin, a graduate student of nontraditional age at Britain's Brunel University, who flattered us colonials by making a study this year of Minnesota's best known citizen-based public policy organization..."
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August 27, 2005 - Bush warns of more sacrifice in Iraq, protesters rally
"Thousands of Iraq war supporters and protesters staged competing rallies near President George W. Bush's Texas ranch on Saturday as he warned Americans to brace for more sacrifice in Iraq..."
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August 27, 2005 - Is John Roberts Too Much of a Judicial Activist?
"There could be a lot of talk about toads at the confirmation hearings for John Roberts Jr. In one of the few revealing opinions he has written in his brief time on the bench, Judge Roberts voted to reconsider a ruling that said the Endangered Species Act protected the arroyo Southwestern toad from being wiped out by a real estate development..."
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August 26, 2005 - Finding solace in $3-a-gallon gas
"High gas prices are a doomsayer's delight. Trips to the mall are fewer, vacations shrink, heating bills rise, inflation rises, the economy slumps. Those harmful effects need to be addressed, but in the long term, such prices can actually serve consumers..."
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Stones Rail against Bush
"Throughout last year's presidential election, Mick Jagger held his tongue. But on the Rolling Stones' first studio album in eight years, A Bigger Bang, Jagger unleashes a barbed political track, "Sweet Neo Con," an open attack on the Bush administration that rips hypocritical Christians and patriots, rising gas prices, "prison without trial" and Vice President Dick Cheney's former company Halliburton..."
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August 25, 2005 - Group disputes spending powers
"Did a district court judge and Gov. Tim Pawlenty's administration exceed their constitutional authority during the July government shutdown by spending state funds without legislative approval?..."
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August 25, 2005 - Stillwater unit among those called up for active duty
"The most Minnesota soldiers to head overseas since World War II go to Mississippi in the next few weeks, not knowing their ultimate assignment..."
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August 25, 2005 - Eight debate at School Board forum
"Eight of the 10 candidates vying for three open seats on the District 834 School Board this fall gathered at the Washington County Government Center Saturday for a candidates’ forum..."
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August 25, 2005 - Bush's antiterrorism formula
"The Bush formula for drying up terrorism is pretty basic: Democracy equals freedom equals a satisfied populace. Transform the Middle East, and the incentive for terrorists to wage war against their governments or those that support them evaporates..."
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August 25, 2005 - Llibrary sues over controversial Patriot Act
"A controversial Patriot Act clause allowing the U.S. government to demand information about library patrons' borrowing habits is being challenged in federal court for the first time by a library..."
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August 25, 2005 - Editorial: Robertson's rant/Hatred in religion's name
"Given the absurdity of his more famous quotations, one can only hope that Pat Robertson's television viewers don't think he gets his ideas straight from the top, as it were. His declarations seem clearly to be born of his own mind..."
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August 24, 2005 - President Bush's Loss of Faith
"It took President Bush a long time to break his summer vacation and acknowledge the pain that the families of fallen soldiers are feeling as the death toll in Iraq continues to climb..."
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August 24, 2005 - Privacy still matters
"Tell me again what's wrong with "judicial activism"? In recent years, those have become dirty words, with even liberals attacking conservative judges for being too "activist."..."
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August 24, 2005 - Stay the course in Lake Elmo
"We've followed the goings on in Lake Elmo because we've long felt that its dispute with the Metropolitan Council is a microcosm — writ large — of myriad debates taking place throughout the metro region. And, frankly, the state Supreme Court got it right..."
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August 24, 2005 - Marsha Swails: Who I am and why I'm running
"On Monday, Aug. 15, with dozens of supporters present, I announced my candidacy for the Minnesota House of Representatives at Woodbury’s Central Park..."
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August 24, 2005 - Kiffmeyer's voting rights reccord questioned
"Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer’s article in (the) Aug. 17 issue, entitled “Human rights: Time for another historic step” discusses various federal laws that have expanded the right to vote in the United States..."
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August 22, 2005 - Bush: US must finish job in Iraq to honor the fallen
"President George W. Bush, speaking amid protests and growing public unease over Iraq, said on Monday America owed it to the more than 1,800 U.S. soldiers killed there to complete the mission, which he linked with the campaign against terrorism..."
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August 22, 2005 - More deaths are not the best way to honor our war dead
"The headlines labeled her "peace mom." It's a moniker that simultaneously personalized and trivialized the lanky woman with the high-pitched voice who camped out in Crawford, Texas. It's a shorthand that both granted and diminished her authority to speak out against the war, a moral authority won the hardest way possible, through the loss of her child..."
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August 21, 2005 - Old School teaches a lesson
"buildings could talk, Stillwater's Nelson School, at First and Hancock streets, would surely spout a triumphant tale. Indeed, the old school's brick and limestone lesson goes far beyond the typical "3R" fare delivered to pupils from the time it was completed, in 1897, until it was shuttered 72 years later..."
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August 21, 2005 - GOP senator, a Vietnam vet, says Iraq looking more like Vietnam
"A leading Republican senator said today the war in Iraq is looking more like the Vietnam conflict from a generation ago..."
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August 21, 2005 - State senate hopefuls already on move
"It's 443 days until Minnesota picks a new U.S. senator, but real estate developer and neophyte politician Kelly Doran already has put up 31 billboards and is working full time to build name recognition in his pursuit of the DFL nomination..."
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August 20, 2005 - Senator's trip resonates at home
"It's a little past 1 p.m. and on the TV over the bar at Lobo's Den, Marshal Dillon has just outdrawn the villain in the opening credits of "Gunsmoke." At the bar, Tim Williams has just drawn some parallels to the war in Iraq..."
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August 20, 2005 - Twin Cities turning deaf ear to political talk radio shows
"Twin Cities listeners have been tuning out political talk radio..."
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August 20, 2005 - Jane Evershed: Women must teach ways of peace to their children
"When we realize that Cindy Sheehan is operating within the confines of global male rule, we see why she is finding it so hard to get an audience with President Bush, though so many people have been rallying at her campsite in Texas..."
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August 19, 2005 - Scientist sues PCA, alleges muzzling
"A scientist at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has filed a federal suit against the agency, saying it isn't allowing her to speak out about several new, emerging chemical contaminants or to answer questions about them from legislators..."
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August 18, 2005 - Educators learn about salary swap
"Hundreds of teachers and school administrators got a crash course Wednesday on a new system for tying teacher raises to performance instead of seniority, but only a couple of districts are on the verge of making the switch..."
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August 18, 2005 - Editorial: Patriot II/Saving freedom by squelching it
"A friend is caught in a quandary. Long eager to hand to her children the best-loved books of her own childhood, she's come upon a volume she hesitates to share. The book? George Orwell's "1984" -- a resonant portrait of a police-state society supervised by a prudently repressive Big Brother..."
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August 18, 2005 - Candlelight vigils held nationwide to protest war
"As the sun dipped behind pastures around a makeshift campsite of anti-war demonstrators near President Bush's ranch, more than 200 people silently clutched candles and gathered around a flag-draped coffin..."
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"A DFL candidate for Secretary of State called Tuesday for a 'code of integrity' that would bar formal partisan activity by the office, but the Republican incumbent countered that she has always followed such ethical standards..."
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August 31, 2005 - New Rules Could Allow Power Plants to Pollute More
"The Bush administration has drafted regulations that would ease pollution controls on older, dirtier power plants and could allow those that modernize to emit more pollution, rather than less..."
Read More...
August 30, 2005 - National poverty rate increases for 4th straight year
"With the Midwest leading the way, the nation's poverty rate went up in 2004 for the fourth straight year even as the U.S. economy strengthened, the Census Bureau said Tuesday..."
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August 30, 2005 - Morning-After Maneuvers
"Just when we thought that the Food and Drug Administration had run out of excuses to avoid ruling on whether the morning-after pill should be made available without a prescription, the agency found yet another lame reason to delay..."
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August 30, 2005 - Coping with Katrina
"Among American cities, New Orleans' history is unique. It has been ravaged by disease, flooded, fought over during wars and looted by corrupt politicians..."
Read More...
August 30, 2005 - Welcome to the club
"About a year ago, just after the first anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, I wrote that I was starting a club. The idea was to give voice to a perspective that isn't usually heard in this era of extreme, blindly partisan politics where you're tossed into either one camp or another — and you're expected to stay in your assigned seats..."
Read More...
August 30, 2005 - Two big unions approve two-year state contracts
"Members of state government's two largest employee unions have overwhelmingly approved new two-year labor contracts in voting that was tallied on Monday..."
Read More...
August 30, 2005 - Yecke quits House race, takes job in Florida
"Cheri Pierson Yecke, a lightning rod for liberal critics and conservative supporters during her short tenure as Minnesota education commissioner, abandoned her campaign for the Sixth District U.S. House seat Monday to take a job overseeing Florida schools..."
Read More...
August 30, 2005 - Editorial: War wounds/Shield the most vulnerable
""War is hell," said Civil War Gen. William T. Sherman, and he didn't know the half of it. In his century, just 5 percent of those killed and wounded in war were civilians. These days, the figure is nearly 90 percent -- and most of these victims are women and children..."
Read More...
August 29, 2005 - Lies, damned lies and poverty statistics
"Each August, we Americans tell ourselves a lie. Tomorrow, the Census Bureau will release the official poverty rates for 2004. Pundits, politicians, the press and the president will almost certainly rehearse empty remarks on why poverty is higher or lower than last year, and attribute this failure or success to things that really have nothing to do with poverty's true causes. This entire episode is profoundly dishonest..."
Read More...
August 29, 2005 - Congress ought to offer this coverage
"The story of a Navy enlisted man and his pregnant wife is not pleasant to talk about. The couple faced a terrible decision. A routine ultrasound revealed that their baby had a fatal condition called anencephaly..."
Read More...
August 29, 2005 - Paul Mulshine: A trifecta of terrible prospects for the GOP
"Don't say I didn't warn you. Last year I pointed out that it might be better for the Republican Party if George W. Bush would follow the example of the prior Texan in the White House..."
Read More...
August 29, 2005 - Editorial: 'No Child' law/Another call to fix flaws
"Put another notch in the belt of the growing movement to reform No Child Left Behind. Last week, Connecticut became the first state to file suit against the Bush administration's signature education law, calling it a "rigid, arbitrary and capricious" mandate that is drastically underfunded..."
Read More...
August 29, 2995 - Destroying the National Parks
"Most of us think of America's national parks as everlasting places, parts of the bedrock of how we know our own country. But they are shaped and protected by an underlying body of legislation, which is distilled into a basic policy document that governs their operation.."
Read More...
August 28, 2005 - Show me the Science
"Blue Hill, Me. PRESIDENT BUSH, announcing this month that he was in favor of teaching about "intelligent design" in the schools, said, "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought." A couple of weeks later, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the Republican leader, made the same point..."
Read More...
August 28, 2005 - Set a time frame for U.S. to exit Iraq
"It's been nearly 30 months since President Bush gave a triumphant speech about Iraq, declaring "Mission accomplished." But while he was right to celebrate the skill and bravery of the U.S. military forces that deposed Saddam Hussein, he was wrong about where we stood..."
Read More...
August 28, 2005 - Editorial: Hear no evil/Politics vs. inconvenient facts
"A recent Justice Department study has found that black and Hispanic motorists are more likely than whites to be searched and roughed up by law enforcement officers during traffic stops, the New York Times and the Washington Post reported last week..."
Read More...
August 28, 2005 - Editorial: Welfare sequel/A fading promise
"Some 15 years ago Minnesota embarked on an experiment in welfare reform that would earn it a national reputation in social science circles. Its strategy was exemplary: scrupulous empirical research and bipartisan accord in the Legislature..."
Read More...
August 28, 2005 - Evading Responsibility, Again
"After four and a half years, we have come to expect the Bush administration to refuse to hold anyone of stature accountable for errors, misdeeds or even potential violations of the law..."
Read More...
August 27, 2005 - FDA Delays Decision On Plan B Contraceptive
"After 28 months of growing controversy, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday indefinitely postponed its decision on whether women should be allowed to buy the "morning-after pill" Plan B without a prescription -- despite earlier assurances that it would act by Thursday..."
Read More...
August 27, 2005 - Tobacco industry contests state fee
"Big tobacco companies and several Minnesota distributors are taking their dislike of the state's new 75-cent-per-pack cigarette "health impact fee" to court, saying it violates the multibillion dollar settlement reached with the state seven years ago..."
Read More...
August 27, 2005 - Myles Spicer: Defenders of Wal-Mart savings didn't pay attention to chain's costs
"In an Aug. 4 Commentary page article, Pankaj Ghemawat and Ken A. Markis claimed that "Wal-Mart helps the rural poor." To me, such a claim is absolutely ludicrous..."
Read More...
August 27, 2005 - Ken Lessley: 'What they died for' in Iraq is a mystery
"President Bush spoke in Utah Monday defending his policies and practices in Iraq, and I have to say he seems focused solely on getting his agenda accomplished, regardless of who has to die unnecessarily in the process..."
Read More...
August 27, 2005 - Editorial: It's back/Citizens League is still needed
"For 53 years, the Citizens League "has punched above its weight." So writes John Matlin, a graduate student of nontraditional age at Britain's Brunel University, who flattered us colonials by making a study this year of Minnesota's best known citizen-based public policy organization..."
Read More...
August 27, 2005 - Bush warns of more sacrifice in Iraq, protesters rally
"Thousands of Iraq war supporters and protesters staged competing rallies near President George W. Bush's Texas ranch on Saturday as he warned Americans to brace for more sacrifice in Iraq..."
Read More...
August 27, 2005 - Is John Roberts Too Much of a Judicial Activist?
"There could be a lot of talk about toads at the confirmation hearings for John Roberts Jr. In one of the few revealing opinions he has written in his brief time on the bench, Judge Roberts voted to reconsider a ruling that said the Endangered Species Act protected the arroyo Southwestern toad from being wiped out by a real estate development..."
Read More...
August 26, 2005 - Finding solace in $3-a-gallon gas
"High gas prices are a doomsayer's delight. Trips to the mall are fewer, vacations shrink, heating bills rise, inflation rises, the economy slumps. Those harmful effects need to be addressed, but in the long term, such prices can actually serve consumers..."
Read More...
Stones Rail against Bush
"Throughout last year's presidential election, Mick Jagger held his tongue. But on the Rolling Stones' first studio album in eight years, A Bigger Bang, Jagger unleashes a barbed political track, "Sweet Neo Con," an open attack on the Bush administration that rips hypocritical Christians and patriots, rising gas prices, "prison without trial" and Vice President Dick Cheney's former company Halliburton..."
Read More...
August 25, 2005 - Group disputes spending powers
"Did a district court judge and Gov. Tim Pawlenty's administration exceed their constitutional authority during the July government shutdown by spending state funds without legislative approval?..."
Read More...
August 25, 2005 - Stillwater unit among those called up for active duty
"The most Minnesota soldiers to head overseas since World War II go to Mississippi in the next few weeks, not knowing their ultimate assignment..."
Read More...
August 25, 2005 - Eight debate at School Board forum
"Eight of the 10 candidates vying for three open seats on the District 834 School Board this fall gathered at the Washington County Government Center Saturday for a candidates’ forum..."
Read More...
August 25, 2005 - Bush's antiterrorism formula
"The Bush formula for drying up terrorism is pretty basic: Democracy equals freedom equals a satisfied populace. Transform the Middle East, and the incentive for terrorists to wage war against their governments or those that support them evaporates..."
Read More...
August 25, 2005 - Llibrary sues over controversial Patriot Act
"A controversial Patriot Act clause allowing the U.S. government to demand information about library patrons' borrowing habits is being challenged in federal court for the first time by a library..."
Read More...
August 25, 2005 - Editorial: Robertson's rant/Hatred in religion's name
"Given the absurdity of his more famous quotations, one can only hope that Pat Robertson's television viewers don't think he gets his ideas straight from the top, as it were. His declarations seem clearly to be born of his own mind..."
Read More...
August 24, 2005 - President Bush's Loss of Faith
"It took President Bush a long time to break his summer vacation and acknowledge the pain that the families of fallen soldiers are feeling as the death toll in Iraq continues to climb..."
Read More...
August 24, 2005 - Privacy still matters
"Tell me again what's wrong with "judicial activism"? In recent years, those have become dirty words, with even liberals attacking conservative judges for being too "activist."..."
Read More...
August 24, 2005 - Stay the course in Lake Elmo
"We've followed the goings on in Lake Elmo because we've long felt that its dispute with the Metropolitan Council is a microcosm — writ large — of myriad debates taking place throughout the metro region. And, frankly, the state Supreme Court got it right..."
Read More...
August 24, 2005 - Marsha Swails: Who I am and why I'm running
"On Monday, Aug. 15, with dozens of supporters present, I announced my candidacy for the Minnesota House of Representatives at Woodbury’s Central Park..."
Read More...
August 24, 2005 - Kiffmeyer's voting rights reccord questioned
"Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer’s article in (the) Aug. 17 issue, entitled “Human rights: Time for another historic step” discusses various federal laws that have expanded the right to vote in the United States..."
Read More...
August 22, 2005 - Bush: US must finish job in Iraq to honor the fallen
"President George W. Bush, speaking amid protests and growing public unease over Iraq, said on Monday America owed it to the more than 1,800 U.S. soldiers killed there to complete the mission, which he linked with the campaign against terrorism..."
Read More...
August 22, 2005 - More deaths are not the best way to honor our war dead
"The headlines labeled her "peace mom." It's a moniker that simultaneously personalized and trivialized the lanky woman with the high-pitched voice who camped out in Crawford, Texas. It's a shorthand that both granted and diminished her authority to speak out against the war, a moral authority won the hardest way possible, through the loss of her child..."
Read More...
August 21, 2005 - Old School teaches a lesson
"buildings could talk, Stillwater's Nelson School, at First and Hancock streets, would surely spout a triumphant tale. Indeed, the old school's brick and limestone lesson goes far beyond the typical "3R" fare delivered to pupils from the time it was completed, in 1897, until it was shuttered 72 years later..."
Read More...
August 21, 2005 - GOP senator, a Vietnam vet, says Iraq looking more like Vietnam
"A leading Republican senator said today the war in Iraq is looking more like the Vietnam conflict from a generation ago..."
Read More...
August 21, 2005 - State senate hopefuls already on move
"It's 443 days until Minnesota picks a new U.S. senator, but real estate developer and neophyte politician Kelly Doran already has put up 31 billboards and is working full time to build name recognition in his pursuit of the DFL nomination..."
Read More...
August 20, 2005 - Senator's trip resonates at home
"It's a little past 1 p.m. and on the TV over the bar at Lobo's Den, Marshal Dillon has just outdrawn the villain in the opening credits of "Gunsmoke." At the bar, Tim Williams has just drawn some parallels to the war in Iraq..."
Read More...
August 20, 2005 - Twin Cities turning deaf ear to political talk radio shows
"Twin Cities listeners have been tuning out political talk radio..."
Read More...
August 20, 2005 - Jane Evershed: Women must teach ways of peace to their children
"When we realize that Cindy Sheehan is operating within the confines of global male rule, we see why she is finding it so hard to get an audience with President Bush, though so many people have been rallying at her campsite in Texas..."
Read More...
August 19, 2005 - Scientist sues PCA, alleges muzzling
"A scientist at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has filed a federal suit against the agency, saying it isn't allowing her to speak out about several new, emerging chemical contaminants or to answer questions about them from legislators..."
Read More...
August 18, 2005 - Educators learn about salary swap
"Hundreds of teachers and school administrators got a crash course Wednesday on a new system for tying teacher raises to performance instead of seniority, but only a couple of districts are on the verge of making the switch..."
Read More...
August 18, 2005 - Editorial: Patriot II/Saving freedom by squelching it
"A friend is caught in a quandary. Long eager to hand to her children the best-loved books of her own childhood, she's come upon a volume she hesitates to share. The book? George Orwell's "1984" -- a resonant portrait of a police-state society supervised by a prudently repressive Big Brother..."
Read More...
August 18, 2005 - Candlelight vigils held nationwide to protest war
"As the sun dipped behind pastures around a makeshift campsite of anti-war demonstrators near President Bush's ranch, more than 200 people silently clutched candles and gathered around a flag-draped coffin..."
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August 17, 2005 - Editorial: Will Minnesota continue to invest?
"Among the best gazers into Minnesota's crystal ball are two fellows with the same first name. State economist Tom Stinson and state demographer Tom Gillaspy have had a hit in wonkish circles for some time now with their Power Point-assisted glimpse of things to come in the Gopher State..."
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August 17, 2005 - More logical energy policy is desired
"Representative Mark Kennedy was pleased (Aug. 10 issue) that “a common sense energy policy is finally a reality.” He also asserts that it is “a huge step forward in reducing our dependence on
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August 17, 2005 - Baffled by Rep. Klinzing's claim
"I am baffled by Karen Klinzing’s claim of Aug. 10 that the 2005 legislative session made investments in education and health care..."
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August 17, 2005 - Keep those shuttle busses rolling
"Absolutely outrageous. The citizens of Woodbury who need some sort of bus service just to get to the park and ride lots are being cut out of the transit equation..."
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August 17, 2005 - Klinzing has some explaining to do
"Transportation is a crucial issue in the east metro area. I see where Rep. Klinzing acknowledged as much this past legislative session when she authored a bill (H.F. 1844) to provide for a bus rapid transit study for service between
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August 17, 2005 - More truth wanted from Kennedy
"Again we were treated to a “Viewpoint” (Aug. 10) from Rep. Mark Kennedy which glowingly listed his legislative achievements..."
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August 17, 2005 - Swails running for 56B seat
""Martha Swails, an English teacher at
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August 16, 2005 - Bush's actions backfire on Muslim women
"President Bush has done so much for women. Not at home, of course. Women in jeans in America may have their rights eroded by an administration where faith trumps science, but women in burqas? The president can't talk enough about how important their rights are..."
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August 16, 2005 - Now it's Republicans who grow government intrusion
"What does Sen. George Allen, R-Va., have in common with James Madison? Madison's home is in the congressional district that Allen has represented in the House and Senate. And that's about all..."
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August 16, 2005 - Kelly raises money with help from GOP, Chicago
"DFL Mayor Randy Kelly of St. Paul basked Monday in the adoration of the state's top two GOP politicians -- U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman and Gov. Tim Pawlenty -- at an event whose headline act was Richard M. Daley, a Democratic mayor who came 350 miles from Chicago to raise money for the incumbent..."
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August 16, 2005 - Another special session? Not so fast
"The top leaders of the Minnesota House and Senate have begun talking up a special legislative session to consider sports stadiums and other unfinished business, but a spokesman for Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Monday essentially advised legislators to chill out..."
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August 15, 2005 - No wonder public opinion differs from Bush's
"The signals for the future in our war in Iraq are deeply mixed, deeply confused and confusing, depending on whom you listen to and what you read..."
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August 15, 2005 - Democrats seek dialogue on abortion
"Democrats looking for a new voice on abortion are getting help from Rep. Jim Oberstar, an abortion opponent from Minnesota's Iron Range who is pushing to broaden the party's message on the issue..."
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August 13, 2005 - Another NWA union up in arms
"The flight attendants union at Northwest Airlines said Friday that its members are being asked to take pay cuts averaging 20 percent as part of the company's plan to cut flight attendant costs by $143 million..."
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August 13, 2005 - Public Remains Anxious Over Economy, War
"The war in Iraq and the soaring price of gasoline are drowning out a succession of positive reports on the economy, putting President Bush on the defensive at a time when he could be basking in good economic news..."
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August 13, 2005 - Study deems the Twin Cities liberal
"Minneapolis is the 23rd most liberal city in the nation and St. Paul isn't far behind at 36th, among 237 municipalities with more than 100,000 people, according to a report by a West Coast research group..."
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August 13, 2005 - DFLers question Kiffmeyer contract handling
"DFL senators on Friday accused Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer of hiding problems with a computer services firm that contracted with the state to improve its voter registration system..."
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August 13, 2005 - John Estrem: The budget as a moral document
"Only now, as the dust settles after what was among the most contentious, bipartisan budget showdowns in the history of our state, can we begin to see the good that was done in the end..."
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August 11, 2005 - Dare to make long term plans
"As I read the news reports about the recently passed energy bill and CAFTA bill, I lost a small amount of hope for the future of this great country..."
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August 11, 2005 - GOP Pays Legal Bills in Vote-Thwart Case
"The Republican Party says it still has a zero-tolerance policy for tampering with voters even as it pays the legal bills for a former Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to thwart Democrats from voting in New Hampshire..."
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August 11, 2005 - Washington Lobbyist Abramoff Charged
"Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a key figure in investigations involving House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on fraud charges arising from a 2000 deal to buy casino boats..."
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August 11, 2005 - SEIU will focus on new challenges
"Members of the Service Employees International Union last month chose to disaffiliate with the national AFL-CIO. This decision was not taken lightly, but our members made a positive step to unite millions of workers — one that will improve the lives of working people all over the country and here in Minnesota..."
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August 11, 2005 - Two dozen GOP House members oppose oil drilling in budget
"Two dozen House Republicans, including three committee chairmen, have asked Speaker Dennis Hastert not to use a congressional budget procedure to clear the way for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska..."
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August 11, 2005 - FEC finds misreporting by DeLay committee
"A federal audit of a political fundraising committee founded by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay found that it failed to report more than $300,000 in debts owed to vendors and incorrectly paid for some committee activities with money from another DeLay-connected political committee..."
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August 11, 2005 - Kennedy website plans links to news articles
"Mark Kennedy's U.S. Senate campaign website, under fire for deleting negative comments from news stories before posting them, will now link users to the full text of articles, a spokeswoman said Wednesday..."
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August 11, 2005 - Michele Kimball: Let's keep this FDR promise
"The winds of change began blowing 70 years ago this week in 1935, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to help the nation's elderly and the "ill-housed, ill-clad and ill-nourished" with a new national program..."
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August 10, 2005 - Editorial: Moral revival?/Not with both eyes open
"On the opposite page, columnist David Brooks has noticed that Americans are living in the midst of a moral revival. With one eye open, he runs through a litany of good news..."
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August 10, 2005 - Nick Coleman: It's time to discuss this war as adults
"The "I" Word is finally being discussed in public. Despite the mounting casualties in Iraq, open political criticism of the war has been rare and Americans have bitten their lips while waiting to see if the war was wise, or winnable. The waiting is over..."
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August 8, 2005 - Fight Over Alaska Oil Drilling Continues
"Conspicuous by its absence in the sweeping energy bill that President Bush has championed and will sign Monday is his top energy priority: opening an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling..."
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August 8, 2005 - John Marty: Appeasing mercury polluters, and lying about it
"Scandalous. That's the best way to describe the actions of top Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) officials exposed by Tom Meersman's investigative report..."
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August 8, 2005 - Editorial: Pay cut?/Divided state is real issue
"By urging legislators to dock their own pay -- and the governor's, too -- whenever a session runs overtime, Tim Pawlenty wants to paper over the real meaning of what happened last June and July..."
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August 7, 2005 - Rich Liberals Vow to Fund Think Tanks
"At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute $1 million or more apiece to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up over the past three decades..."
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August 7, 2005 - Bush evolution comment roils long-standing battle
"President Bush's call for schools to discuss "intelligent design" alongside evolution is the latest shot in a long-standing war between religion and secularism in the United States in which religion now seems to be making broad advances..."
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August 6, 2005 - AP Poll: Less than half think Bush is honest
"Less than half of Americans now say they think President Bush is honest, according to an AP-Ipsos poll taken at a time of increasing concerns about Iraq, a potential problem for a president who won re-election declaring that "people know where I stand.''..."
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August 5, 2005 - Opinion of Bush's handling of Iraq, honesty reaches low point in poll
"Americans' approval of President Bush's handling of Iraq is at its lowest level yet, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that also found fewer than half now think he's honest..."
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August 5, 2005 - Pawlenty: Budget dawdling won't pay
"Embarrassed by a legislative session that blew past every deadline and ran eight weeks into overtime, Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Thursday said he wants legislators to dock their own pay if it happens again..."
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August 5, 2005 - Editorial: Judicial campaigns/Still hope for nonpartisan races
"freedom is the foundation of American society, restraint is the mortar between its bricks. Though the U.S. Constitution grants citizens the right to express nearly any squirrelly notion that comes to mind, it's a relief that most decline the opportunity..."
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August 5, 2005 - Editorial: Guns/Parking-lot bans are reasonable
"Even some ardent gun-rights advocates are shaking their heads at the National Rifle Association's latest gambit: It is organizing a nationwide boycott of Conoco and Phillips 66 products because ConocoPhillips has brought a legal challenge against an Oklahoma gun law..."
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August 4, 2005 - Bush's loyalty raises doubts about his political judgment
"Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent wasn't surprised this week when President Bush supported embattled Baltimore Orioles slugger Rafael Palmeiro after he tested positive for steroids by saying the star first baseman was a trusted friend..."
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August 3, 2005 - Court lets politics into judge's races
"A federal appeals court paved the way Tuesday for potential knock-down partisan fights among judicial candidates in Minnesota with a ruling that will allow candidates to align with political parties and ask for campaign donations..."
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August 1, 2005 - A good reflection on size of government
"Here's an economist's Goldilocks question: Is state and local government in Minnesota too big, too small, or about right? Art Rolnick, senior vice president and director of research at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, answered "about right" at a July 20 Citizens League breakfast..."
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August 1, 2005 - No more war/Instead, it's now a struggle
"It was announced last week in Washington by "senior administration and military officials" that no longer is the United States in a "war on terror." Henceforth, the nation will be engaged in a long-term "global struggle against violent extremism."..."
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August 1, 2005 - Editorial: Don't retreat/Push for statewide smoking ban
"Hennepin County Board members say they're feeling pressure to modify the county's smoking ban, which is four months old. Therefore they voted last week to conduct an economic-impact study with an eye to possibly exempting traditional bars from the new ordinance. They ought to slow down and consider the big picture..."
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August 1, 2005 - Bush Appoints Bolton As U.N. Ambassador
"President Bush sidestepped the Senate and installed embattled nominee John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, ending a five-month impasse with Democrats who accused Bolton of abusing subordinates and twisting intelligence to fit his conservative ideology..."
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