I know, let’s sell Split Rock Lighthouse State Park! Think how much tax income we could secure if it was private condos along those six miles of shoreline! All those… Read more »
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Clean your boats: Minnesotans get it, why doesn’t the EPA?
“Pick It or Ticket.” That’s a tortured line of poetry, but it sums up the message the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is sending to Minnesota boaters. When you trailer… Read more »
Bonding: For herring, not for hugging
This session of the Minnesota Legislature is supposed to be about bonding. By bonding, I don’t mean the “Hug a Ranger” campaign to raise awareness of the importance of the… Read more »
Minnesotans in DC: Observations of a political newbie
Last week I travelled with twelve other Minnesotans to Washington, DC with the Healing Our Waters Coalition. We were lobbying for three main issues: Continued funding for the Great Lakes… Read more »
How about jobs FOR the environment?
I’m just a little sick of this whole “jobs versus the environment” thing. First thing, the goal of good public policy should be to have both good jobs and a… Read more »
No Dogs Allowed… Until After the Public Meeting
Someone tried to take public policy into their own hands here in Duluth, trying a line-item veto on the rules protecting the lovely pine forest of Minnesota Point. It’s not… Read more »
T! M! D! L! What’s that spell?!
Imagine a squad of cheerleaders shouting out “Give me a T”, and the spectators calling back en masse, “T!!!” And then give them an “M”…and a “D”…and finally a “L”…. Read more »
Cleaning Minnesota’s waters, one acronym at a time
What do you like about Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes and 70,000 miles of streams? Swimming? Fishing? You should know about Beneficial Use Impairments, or BUI’s.
Clean water or jobs? Both, but only with strong regulation
Ely, Minnesota has been an environmental battlefield for decades. Ely was founded as an iron mining town, and a century later, conflicts today focus on mining. The conflict came to… Read more »
Mixed blessings from super ships
On my walk to work, I cross Duluth’s iconic Aerial Lift Bridge. During the shipping season, my commute can be seriously disrupted by traffic…shipping traffic that is. The span of… Read more »