A couple week's ago, sports columnist Dan Carlson stunk up my local paper by pontificating that the Boston bombing demonstrated that gun regulations are useless. "Government cannot protect us," Carlson asserted, calling apparently for a return to the state of…
Posts tagged as “Minnesota”
Former South Dakotan gone Minnesota Joe Loveland offers this hilariously apt theatrical adaptation of Sanford Health's hasty retreat from merger talks with Fairview Health: (Dark stage) Fairview and Sanford CEOs: (Unintelligible whispers) (Stage lights come on) Minnesota Attorney General :…
You know why I keep Larry Kurtz around? Because he provides useful information, like this update that Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson has scared Sanford Health out of its merger talks with Fairview Health: Sanford Health is withdrawing from merger…
My wife and I sigh in disgust every time we see Sanford Health spending more of their patients' money on giant sports complexes and self-promotion instead of health care. Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson doesn't sound too pleased, either. She…
In more West River mining news, environmental activists may find another target in the Black Hills: sand mining. Cambrian Resources, which Rapid City energy lawyer David Ganje just brought into existence last November, has acquired silica sand mining claims for…
Our friend Senator Al Franken of Minnesota is cheering for the same federal funding his South Dakota counterpart John Thune loves, the dollars for the Lewis and Clark water project. But Senator Thune is getting a little torqued at our…
I got this article from a creative young South Dakotan who has moved to the Twin Cities to capitalize on her creative skills. An economic analysis of "creative vitality" finds that Minneapolis ranks sixth nationwide for the amount of economic…
Mr. Kurtz puts me on the track of some interesting data from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety questioning the value of the Minnesota Personal Protection Act. Minnesota passed this law in 2003 to allow any person over age 21…