Posts Categorized: Legislature

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “When I find a guy who can paddle better, shoot straighter, snowshoe faster, split wood quicker, and portage bigger loads, I’ll marry him.”… Read more »

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “We have been informed that charitable hands have smoothed the later path of Dred and his Harriet, so that a freedom so tardily… Read more »

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “No mortal man could have surmised what was afterward learned, but the Confederate Naval officers intended to destroy the Minnesota…” – Confederate Military… Read more »

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “To the Chippewas that sprawling series of lakes and rivers known as the Kawashaway was a land of the mystery.” –  Sigurd Olson,… Read more »

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “I almost had heart failure before it was over.” – Charles A. Bender, May 12, 1910*

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “For the American people thus to allow such calamities to habitually occur, without adopting any adequate means for their prevention causes our country… Read more »

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Quartzite”* This was the one word telegram that Tams Bixby and his group of investors received in 1894 from a gem expert in… Read more »

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Day or night or good weather or bad made no difference with John Beargrease; he was sure to arrive some time with the… Read more »

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “The selection of a chief author seals the fate of many bills… An author who possesses sound judgment and a competitive nature can… Read more »

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Please Walk on Grass” -Theodore Wirth, Minneapolis Park Board Sign in the early 1900s*