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• DFL passes home electric bill increase

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 142
  When the House DFL voted to artificially increase the use of solar power, they voted to raise the price of electricity on every Minnesotan. Almost. The DFL bill includes a carve-out for companies in northern Minnesota. Rep. Mike Beard has been the expert on energy issues in the House for years. Rep. Beard isn’t ...
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• Keystone XL and Natural Gas Provide Energy Trade Opportunities

  
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  Jim West/ZUMA Press/Newscom In June 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama said, “If we continue to let our trade policy be dictated by special interests, then American workers will continue to be undermined, and public support for robust trade will continue to erode.” That’s exactly what’s happening with ...
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• The Hollowing Out of Government

  
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  By Robert Reich The West Texas chemical and fertilizer plant where at least 15 were killed and more than 200 injured a few weeks ago hadnt been fully inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 1985. (A partial inspection in 2011 had resulted in $5,250 in fines.) OSHA and its state partners ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another Washington Joke- Corporate Taxes

  
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  Corporate taxes in the United States are supposedly the highest in the world, nominally at 35 percent, which should be a major financial disincentive to economic growth and corporate investment in this country. However, no major corporation pays its federal obligation at this rate, finding ways to lower its taxes, or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why Writers Need Sabbath Rest

  
  The Lina Lamont Fan Club — Authority: 130
  I have been reading some how-to-write books by James Scott Bell lately, and when I made up my writing work sheet for the month , I took two pieces of advice from him. One was to set my word count goals on a weekly rather than a daily basis. And the other was to take one day each week as a day of rest--- in my case, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The reason behind government bloat: crony capitalism

  
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  John Daly, “Big versus small government is not a real issue”: The underlying problem of government bloat is crony capitalism.  Special interests – like AARP and the military industrial complex — rule. The smartest thing that the special interests and the military-industrial complex ever did was ...
  2 weeks ago

• We Still Have A Ways To Go

  
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  Congress has justly earned a single, or at best, low double digit approval rating.  Americans scratch their heads and wring their hands.  How can an elected body vote against “universal background checks when over 80% of Americans support the new legislation”?  Hmmm. There many explanations.  Some say it is ...
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• Poor little Mark Dayton

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 142
  This Strib op-ed is about as whiny as I’ve read in recent years. It also isn’t credible. Here’s a sample from the op-ed: The recent exchange between Gov. Mark Dayton and some community members in a discussion about increases in legislative pay (“Dayton says forum crowd in Shakopee was ‘juvenile,’?” ...
  2 weeks ago

• APS Continues Pressure to Quash Solar Energy Choice in Arizona

  
  Sonoran Alliance — Authority: 543
  Several weeks ago when I took up the cause of energy choice via the issue of net metering, little did I realize I would strike at the nerve of the big utility energy monopolies like APS. While my intention was not to overly criticize the Republican-led Arizona Corporation Commission, several of my posts were ...
  2 weeks ago

• An Alternative to Austerity? Thousands Say "Tax Wall Street"

  
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  By Chuck Idelson National Nurses United They came, they danced, they marched, 2,000 people spirited and strong, Robin Hoods merry band of men and women, through the streets of Washington April 20. Ending up astride a prominent government building, christened with a new name and a naming ceremony. No more U.S. ...
  3 weeks ago

• The DFL’s delusional tax policies, continued

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 142
  Rep. Pat Garofalo ripped the DFL as out of control during this speech during the DFL tax increase debate: There were 2 highlights during the speech. Both related to the silica sand tax included in the House DFL tax increase bill. Here’s what Rep. Garofalo said about that tax: You’re gonna actually tax an ...
  3 weeks ago

• DFL legislature votes against government accountability

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 142
  True to their waste-aholic history, the DFL legislature voted against government accountability : A commission designed to judge whether state agencies, councils or boards have outlived their usefulness may itself cease to exist. The Democratic-controlled House and Senate have voted to abolish the Sunset ...
  3 weeks ago

• Proposed "Water Tunnels" a Death Sentence for the Bay Delta

  
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  By Bill Jennings For over a quarter of a century Ive labored in the trenches of the water rights and water quality processes trying to protect it. We have a broad suite of laws protecting the Bay Delta - among them: the state constitution; water code; public trust doctrine; state and federal endangered species, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Despite Governors Comment, CEQA Reform Moving Forward This Year

  
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  By Robert Cruickshank Last week Governor Jerry Brown proclaimed efforts to reform the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to be dead for this legislative session . But Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg disagreed, declaring CEQA reform not dead yet and that it is in fact moving forward in this ...
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• Is This Democracy?

  
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  Last week, the nation’s media focused its attention on the Boston bombings and to a lesser degree, the Texas explosion. But there was little dialogue about the outrageous action the week before by the Senate of voting down the expansion of background checks for gun buyers, a clear challenge to the democratic ...
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• Calgary: A Tale of Two Slates

  
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  If you’ve been paying attention to Calgary’s municipal election over the last week you would likely have heard about the Manning Centre, a $1,100,000 donation by the home builders to “in order to bring Preston [Manning] on board,” and the recent comments by Cal Wenzel on buying council members — earning ...
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• MIHS Meets in Closed Door Session to Discuss Controversial State Contract

  
  Sonoran Alliance — Authority: 543
  The Maricopa County Integrated Health Systems Board of Directors is currently meeting in closed-door Executive Session to discu ss the current legal challenge and protest filed by Magellan and United RHBA against MMIC (Mercy Maricopa Integrated Care), MIHS CEO Betsey Bayless, and Maricopa County Special Health Care ...
  4 weeks ago

• Exposing the DFL’s empty tax rhetoric

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 142
  MN2020, the progressive think tank run by former DFL gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza, is defending Gov. Dayton’s budget : Minnesota 2020, a progressive think tank that defends Minnesota’s tradition of higher taxes and higher spending, has released a new report suggesting those raw figures are ...
  4 weeks ago

• Will gay marriage create jobs?

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 142
  While they campaigned last year, DFL legislators and candidates talked endlessly about their highest priority being creating jobs. This session, they’ve talked endlessly about creating jobs…while debating whether to pass legislation that made same sex marriage legal in Minnesota. Now there’s talk that giving gay ...
  5 weeks ago

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