Congressman Tim Walz and the Economic Stimulus Tour

  Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District Congressman Tim Walz drove to the end of the world district today (a few minutes more and he would have been in South Dakota)  for a listening session about the economic stimulus package recently passed the the U.S. House of Representatives. One of several throughout the 1st district over the last couple of days, the [...]

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Give me that old time stimulus.

Since it is the 18th of January I figured it was about time to change my Christmas header image. The economic stimulus plans floating around have included the need for increased investment in our infrastructure such as roads and bridges. The new header image is from an old slide from my father’s archives when I-90 [...]

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“Pray For Me, I Drive Highway 60″

“Pray for me, I drive Highway 60″. That is the slogan of the Southwest Minnesota Highway 60 Action Corporation that was organized in 1960. The groups purpose back then, as it is today, was to promote the improvement of Minnesota TH 60. They are still praying and waiting 48 years later. Last Thursday, July 24, [...]

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Does Speed Matter?

No, I am not talking about the Warner Bros. movie Speed Racer, but the speed of your Internet connection. The Communications Workers of America is conducting an internet speed test and is collecting the data for a report they will present to the FCC. Information obtained from a previous test was helpful in getting the FCC to change [...]

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Storin’ the Wind

 Well, the wind is blowing right now at 30 mph and it is annoying and cold. Hopefully the wind farms are online and generating electricity. One of the problems with the establishing a wind farm is being able to sell the electricity generated and to get it from the wind turbine to the consumer. This takes [...]

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Blowin’ In The Wind

  Minnesota’s 1st CD Congressman Tim Walz(D) has been working hard in Washington D.C. on energy issues and recently issued a press release about the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008, H.R. 5351. Ollie Ox over at Bluestem Prairie covers it in detail here. Minnesota Central looks at the tax and job creation [...]

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Fixing roads, putting people to work.

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 [...]

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Independent in Marshall has different view than Seifert

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 [...]

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Hamilton and Magnus: Different Routes on Transportation

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 [...]

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Lewis & Clark amBUSHed!

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 [...]

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