John Tuma’s Capitol Update – The Pre-Session Version “There is a basic law of nuclear waste often overlooked – all waste remains where it is first put.” – Richard Wilson… Read more »
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Minnesota’s Dollars and Sense
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – the Pre-Session Version “This place is now feeling the pressure of hard times… they have not found bottom yet…they have recently voted to loan the… Read more »
Minnesota’s Rich History in the Debate over Nuclear Energy
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – The Pre-Session Version Most Minnesotans think the nuclear debate in Minnesota began with the 1994 battle dealing with the storage of nuclear waste in dry… Read more »
Midwesterners in Copenhagen
Want to learn more about the climate talks happening in Copenhagen, December 7-18? Watch videos, read tweets and blogs, and look at photos of the events, all from Midwesterners in… Read more »
State Supreme Court Ruling Bodes Well for Locally Grown Food
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – the Fall Version In the final installment in a series about Minnesota’s role in the local food movement, John continues his journey through the history… Read more »
A Forgotten Legislator and a Big Constitutional Amendment
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – The Fall Version The third installment in a series about Minnesota’s role, now and in the past, in the local food movement. This week John… Read more »
A Farmer’s Fight
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – the Fall Version The second installment in a series about Minnesota’s role, now and in the past, in the local food movement. This week John… Read more »
Local Food and the Minnesota State Constitution
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – the Fall Version The first installment in a series about Minnesota’s role, now and in the past, in the local food movement. “In California, in… Read more »
Gold Prospector Turned Legendary Boundary Waters Woodsman
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – The Summer Version Lobbyist John Tuma tells the second half of the story of Benny Ambrose, a legendary Boundary Waters woodsman who learned the wilderness… Read more »
Benny Ambrose and the Boundary Waters
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – The Summer Version Lobbyist John Tuma tells the story of Benny Ambrose, a lover and defender of the Boundary Waters who just wouldn’t be overpowered… Read more »