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Posts By: Minnesota Environmental Partnership
LCCMR Moves on to Land Conservation
The LCCMR’s most recent meeting led once to ask: Where, oh where, have the committee members gone?
Supreme Court throws out Transportation Amendment challenge
The Supreme Court has ruled against the challenge to the Transporation Amendment that will be before voters on November 7. Here’s a link for the Associated Press story.
Sandhill Cranes
Most anyone who has talked to me for more than five minutes knows that I grew up in Colorado. Well, I just returned to Minnesota from a trip to my motherland and I thought I’d share a few photos. In particular, I had the chance to visit my cousins in the San Luis Valley in Southern Colorado, where Sandhill cranes are currently migrating through. These three feet tall birds are really something to see.
LCCMR delivers Water Conservation RFP
In its most recent meeting on October 12, the LCCMR continues to struggle with the myriad issues involved in determining how to make legislative recommendations as to the amount of… Read more »
a little bit of this and that
I haven’t had the habit of just throwing out a random assortment of links on this site yet, but apparently there is a first time for everything. Mike Taylor, former… Read more »
Legality of the Transportation Amendment challenged
Today 13 people, including four state legislators, filed a legal challenge to the Transportation Amendment that is slated to appear on Minnesota ballots this November. The four legislators are Rep. Dan Dorman… Read more »
Vote Your Values on November 7
The election is just about one month away and a lot of folks don’t know who they are going to vote for yet. Democracy doesn’t work so well when people don’t… Read more »
Water Propheting
Lame attempt at a clever headline? Yes. But that doesn’t make the topic of privatizing water and the people who talk about it any less important (though the expression “privatizing water” doesn’t… Read more »
SEMEP
The blog Sky Blue Waters has a nice little write up on MEP member group Southeastern Minnesotans for Environmental Protection (SEMEP), which includes a long list of successes for this… Read more »