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Posts tagged as “Missouri River”

Brainstorm: Put Backlogged Grain on Missouri River Barges?

There is something perverse about capitalism and the global economy when a shipping company suspends cargo runs from Minneapolis at the height of harvest. We have food, something human being needs every day, and big business would rather haul coal…

Flooding Caused by Army Corps, Liberals… or Rain?

The right-wing noise machine is ramping up its effort to prop up its failing worldview with the Missouri River flooding. Right-wing blogs are moving beyond citing these floods as evidence of government's inherent ineptitude to assert that the floods result…

Corps of Engineers Proposing Fees for Missouri Water Storage

Various commentators and former governors seeking elder statesman status are confusing flood control with flood elimination and blaming the Army Corps of Engineers for heavy snow and rain and houses built in a flood plain. If you'd like something you…