May 29, 2005 - Bill Moyers: Punished for the truth
"The story I've come to share with you goes to the core of our belief that the quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined..."
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May 29, 2005 - Nick Coleman: Retired bishop lifts his voice in support of gays
"Herbert W. Chilstrom has been retired 10 years, and he would be glad if we would just let him do volunteer gardening in the arboretum of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., where the grounds are being overrun by gophers..."
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May 28, 2005 - State senator's son dies in Iraq
"As a toddler, Matthew Lourey dreamed of flying one day. A picture of him as an adult, as a Chief Warrant Officer in the U.S. Army in a crisp flight suit, shows him beaming in front of his Kiowa Warrior helicopter..."
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May 28, 2005 - Samuel Oluoch Imbo: 'Free speech' bill misses the true threat to freedom
"Sen. Michele Bachmann's May 22 counterpoint ("My free-speech bill seeks to strengthen higher-ed mission") was alarming because many readers may be tempted to take her comments at face value..."
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May 28, 2005 - Analysts Behind Iraq Intelligence Were Rewarded By Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writer
"Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq -- the claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Baghdad government were most likely meant for a nuclear weapons program rather than for rockets -- have received job performance awards in each of the past three years, officials said..."
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May 27, 2005 - Judge rules against PAC founded by Tom DeLay
"A Texas judge said Thursday that the treasurer of a political fundraising committee formed by U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, violated the state's election law by failing to report more than $600,000 in contributions from corporations and other donors in 2002..."
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May 24, 2005 - Political opponents talk trash
"Bachmann takes high road after foes clean highway - Michele Bachmann's opponents worked the streets of Stillwater this weekend to score points against the Republican state senator — but was it 'dirty' or 'clean' politics?..."
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May 24, 2005 - Kevin Featherly: It's a fee, and we mustn't call it by that other name
"Some words are so unkind that I wouldn't consider using them in print..."
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May 23, 2005 - John Gunyou: Courageous leaders ignoring threats of the antitaxers
Hell hath no fury like Grover Norquist spurned. I've been struggling to understand Gov. Tim Pawlenty's aversion to a bipartisan transportation bill that everyone seems to want..."
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May 23, 2005 - Deal on filibusters deemed possible
"Senators trying to broker a compromise on judicial filibusters said Sunday that an agreement was possible before a critical vote this week set by majority Republicans to break the logjam on President Bush's nominees..."
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May 22, 2005 - Minneapolis lawyer is new DFL state chair
"Minneapolis City DFL Chairman Brian Melendez beat out two challengers Saturday to win election as state party chair for the next two years..."
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May 21, 2005 - District will add fee for school bus riders
"Stillwater is latest district to choose cost-cutting measure. Parents of about 2,000 students attending Stillwater Area Schools found out this month that it will cost at least $250 for their children to ride the bus next year..."
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May 18, 2005 - Amy Sullivan: No political party should get to claim God
"As a young Baptist trapped in a pew for several hours every Sunday, I spent a lot of time reading the Bible..."
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May 18, 2005 - Can we count on DMV bureaucrats to foil terrorists?
"Ideally, the debate about national ID cards should have happened before Congress approved them. But better late than never..."
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May 17, 2005 - Molly Ivins: Don't blame Newsweek; Despite sloppiness, Newsweek didn't fabricate Koran story
"As Riley used to say on an ancient television sitcom, "This is a revoltin' development." There seems to be a bit of a campaign on the right to blame Newsweek for the anti-American riots in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other Islamic countries..."
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May 16, 2005 - Area business owners‘understand’ need for possible minimum wage hike
"As state minimum wage earners eye up an increase of a dollar an hour on their paychecks, area business owners are contemplating the effects of paying more to some employees..."
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May 15, 2005 - Paul Krugman: Economic security, if you happen to be rich
"This month Standard and Poor's, a bond rating agency, downgraded both Ford and General Motors bonds to junk status. That is, it sees a significant risk that the companies won't be able to pay their debts. Don't cry for the bondholders, but do cry for the workers..."
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May 15, 2005 - Drug firms 'must change'
"Pharmaceutical executive Peter Rost has become an unlikely hero among consumer advocates for bucking his industry and urging Congress to legalize the import of low-priced prescription drugs..."
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May 12, 2005 - Michael L. Boucher Jr.: Teachers, get ready for a smear by Bachmann
"Like many of us, I get a lot of e-mail and most of it goes in the trash, but one piece I recently received chilled me to the bone..."
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May 12, 2005 - Is adequacy really the goal we want for Minnesota schools?
"I am ever so grateful to have teenagers living at my house..."
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May 12, 2005 - Judy Schaubach: The real job killer is lack of education funds
"With Minnesota's politically charged legislative session in its final days, lawmakers will make critical decisions that will have lasting implications on the well-being of our state..."
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May. 11, 2005 - Briefing: Minimum wage to increase $1 Aug. 1
"At least 50,000 Minnesotans will get a pay raise Aug. 1..."
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May 11, 2005 - Senatorial hopeful takes gutsy stand in favor of mall-walking fundraiser, Mark Kennedy's Cure For Cancer
"Minnesota Congressman Mark Kennedy is talking out of one side of his mouth while shoving his foot in the other..."
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May 11, 2005 - Editorial: Environment/What Legislature must do"
"This legislative session seems poised to continue Minnesota's steady retreat from spending on environmental programs, from pollution control to conservation law enforcement to state parks maintenance..."
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May 10, 2005 - New federal standards for driver's licenses assailed from all sides
"Senators from both parties, state officials and opponents criticized legislation the Senate approved Tuesday mandating tough federal standards for driver's licenses - a measure meant to improve homeland security but which they said would have sweeping unintended consequences: huge costs to the states and headaches for the nation's drivers..."
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May 7, 2005 - Editorial: K-12 funding/65 percent is no solution
"Desperate to find more funds for K-12 education without raising revenue, Gov. Tim Pawlenty is supporting another reallocation scheme that won't work..."
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May 7, 2005 - Ward Eames: So simple, yet so wrong for schools
"Gov. Tim Pawlenty's proposal for a '65 Percent Solution' (Star Tribune, April 28) evoked for me a vision of Aristotle lecturing to his pupils under a tree. Except that if 65 percent of all school funding is earmarked for direct classroom instruction, the children cannot get to school, there are no books and there is no one to tend the tree..."
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May 5, 2005 - David Durenberger and Walter F. Mondale: Preserve Senate rules, filibuster and all
"The American people should know that the proposed repeal of the filibuster rule for judicial nominees by majority vote will profoundly and permanently undermine the purpose of the U.S. Senate as it has stood since Thomas Jefferson first wrote the Senate's rules. We join together, across party lines, in an urgent plea of support for the current Senate rules..."
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May 5, 2005 - Woodbury native dies in Iraq jet collision
"Second Marine Corps aviator also died in Monday accident - A Woodbury native whose father was killed in the crash of a restored World War II fighter a year ago was one of two Marine Corps fighter pilots who died this week when their planes apparently collided over south-central Iraq..."
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May 3, 2005 - New arena for birth-control battle
"Rebecca Polzin walked into a drugstore in Glencoe, Minn., last month to fill a prescription for birth control. A routine request. Or so she thought. Minutes later, Polzin left furious and empty-handed. She said the pharmacist on duty refused to help her. "She kept repeating the same line: 'I won't fill it for moral reasons,' Polzin said..."
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May 3, 2005 - Bush Social Security plan is a sucker's bet
"There is a name for those who continue to sit at a gambling table even after they learn that the game is fixed. They are called fools..."
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May 3, 2005 - Harry J. Flynn: Every person matters, so let's govern that way
"In January, Bishop Peter Rogness, bishop of the Lutheran Synod of St. Paul, and I went to St. Paul's West Side. We went as pastors because we wanted to talk to real people dealing with the consequences of budget decisions made in 2003..."
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May 3, 2005 - Editorial: Taxing estates/It's good for the country
"In the argument over repeal of the national estate tax, which has passed the House and will be before the Senate soon, supporters of repeal frequently assert that the assets of an estate have "already been taxed" and that the estate tax amounts to double taxation. That's not quite right..."
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May 3, 2005 - House approves minimum wage boost
"The House on Monday passed a bill that would raise the state's minimum wage by a dollar for workers at most Minnesota businesses, starting this August..."
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May 2, 2005 - GOP pushing cut in renters' credit
"At the State Capitol, 2005 may turn out to be a bad year for renters..."
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May 2, 2005 - 65 percent solution is no solution at all
"A proposal to force school districts to spend 65 percent of operating funds on classroom instruction has been embraced by Gov. Tim Pawlenty..."
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May 2, 2005 - Editorial: Energy policy/Bush offers more of the same
"'What I've laid out for the Congress to consider is a comprehensive energy strategy that recognizes we need to be better conservers of energy, that recognizes that we can find more energy at home in environmentally friendly ways.'--President Bush, in Thursday's news conference. Even the president's supporters may have been startled by the audacity of this claim, which could not be more at odds with the record..."
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