Posted in DFL, GOP, Minnesota, Politics, infrastructure, worthington, tagged transportation, infrastructure, seifert, Rod Hamilton on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Area newspapers are reporting positive reaction to the passage of the transportation bill. In Rep. Seifert’s hometown, Rae Kruger of the Marshall Independent reports that county commissioners are pleased that money will be available for county and township roads. Lyon County commissioner Bob Fenske had this to say:
Fenske takes issue with opponents, including legislators, who say a [...]
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Posted in DFL, GOP, Minnesota, News, Politics, infrastructure, marty seifert, tagged marshall independent, Minnesota, Politics, seifert, transportation on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
That would be the Marshall Independent, the city’s newspaper. In their editorial, An override that gives us a chance of keeping up , the newspaper concludes with this statement:
Better roads, safer bridges. It’s hard to put a price-tag on them, but after 20 years of standing still, someone probably had to.
Will Rep. Marty Seifert cancel his [...]
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Posted in DFL, GOP, Minnesota, News, Pawlenty, Politics, infrastructure, tagged DFL, GOP, hamilton, infrastructure, magnus, Minnesota, Pawlenty, seifert, tinglestad, transportation on February 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The recent passage of the transportation bill by the Minnesota House and Senate and the subsequent veto by Governor Tim Pawlenty has created an atmosphere of speculation on the possibility of an override of the veto, and consternation amongst the GOP base over those six Republican House members who voted with the DFL majority.
Rep. Doug Magnus [...]
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Posted in Bachmann, I-90, Michele Bachmann, Minnesota, flowers, tagged Bachmann, flowers, garden, I-90, Minnesota, ponds, spring, winter driving on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I worked some overtime Sunday (Michelle would be proud), and had to drive the 30 miles home on a windswept I-90. After only traveling several miles and seeing 3 vehicles in the median and ditch I knew it would be a slow, stressful, and frustrating trip home. We did not receive any snowfall in SW Minnesota but [...]
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Posted in AFL-CIO, DFL, Elections, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Labor, Minnesota, Obama, Politics, mccain, tagged Politics, Minnesota, AFL-CIO, mccain, Obama, clinton, powerpoint on February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
John McCain needs to just go through the motions before he is passed the Republican torch from G.W. in Minneapolis this summer. Obama and Clinton will continue to slug it out and spend precious resources seeking the Democratic nomination. I am not about to predict a winner on the Democratic side but can say this: McCain will be [...]
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Posted in Iraq, Lewis & Clark, Peace, Politics, video, tagged Politics, Peace, video, war, american friends service committee, lewis and clark on February 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The American Friends Service Committee has produced this video called Cost of War.
We could certainly finish the Lewis and Clark pipeline and even put up a few wind turbines.
For information on their calculations go here.
Peace & solidarity,
CHC
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Posted in AFL-CIO, Conyers, DFL, Elections, H.R. 676, Labor, Minnesota, Minnesota AFL-CIO, Pawlenty, Politics, Unions, health insurance, single payer, tagged AFL-CIO, Conyers, h.r.676, healthcare, Keith Ellison, Unions on February 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Health care has been one of the major issues of this current presidential campaign. Minnesota Central, a frequent visitor to Corner House comments, has left a comment about one of my previous posts which mentioned this issue and H. R. 676. Introduced by Representative John Conyers (D), of Michigan, HR 676 would institute a single payer health [...]
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Posted in DFL, Elections, Luverne, Minnesota, Obama, Politics, rock county, tagged clinton, Minnesota, Obama, rock county on February 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
New faces, new voices.
That was the scene in Rock County tonight as eager participants turned out to voice their preference in the Democratic presidential poll. Attendance was up from previous years and young and old alike were there to express their desire for change.
Vote totals:
Obama 83
Clinton 55
Edwards 1
Richardson 1
The CHC family was well represented as [...]
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Posted in Lewis & Clark, Luverne, Minnesota, News, Norm Coleman, Pawlenty, Politics, Tim Walz, infrastructure, rock county, worthington, tagged worthington, Tim Walz, Lewis & Clark Regional Water System, Luverne, pipestone, bush budget 2009 on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
More water woes!
GW released his 2009 budget today and one of the casualties was the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System. News reports from KELOTV and the Sioux Falls Argus Leader state that the LCRWS will receive nothing, nada, zilch in the Bush 2009 budget. When completed, Lewis & Clark will provide safe, reliable drinking water to [...]
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Posted in Local Media, Luverne, Minnesota, News, ecosystem, ethanol, pollution, rock county, worthington, tagged rock county, rock river, fecal coliform bacteria, turbidity, pollution, Star Herald, worthington daily globe, lori ehde, mpca on February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, not only is the bridge bad but the water under it leaves a lot to be desired. A few weeks ago I received the Rock River Watershed TMDL Newsletter from the Rock County Land Management office. In the newsletter it says, “Pollution is threatening the Rock River“. It goes on to offer an overview [...]
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