Today’s topics: Agriculture, Development, Energy, Great Lakes, Mining, Natural Areas, Transportation and Water.
Agriculture
- St. Cloud Times: Time up for subsidies? Lawmakers face farmers’ needs, questions of market stability
(MEP member group Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy is quoted) - Star Tribune: It affects farmers, consumers, students
- Star Tribune Opinion: Subsidies are the weeds in America’s farm policy
- Fergus Falls Daily Journal: Democrats say new Farm Bill signals change
- Grand Forks Herald Editorial: Farm bill affects more than farmers
- Grand Forks Herald: Osnabrock farmer the unlikely face of industrial hemp movement
- Winona Daily News: Prairie business blooming: Native plants, grasses help battle soil erosion, control water runoff
Development
- Star Tribune: Ford to clean house before land is sold
Energy
- Mesabi Daily News: Micheletti confident on energy hearing
(MEP member group Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy is quoted) - Star Tribune: Klobuchar gets lesson in global warming
- Fargo Forum: BioHaus an icon of efficiency
- Morris Sun Tribune: Work begins on UMM biomass facility
Great Lakes
- Associated Press (KARE): Changing Lake Superior frustrates boaters, mystifies scientists
Mining
- Duluth News Tribune: Water not a barrier in exploration for minerals
(MEP member group Sierra Club North Star Chapter is quoted) - Mesabi Daily News: Year of drilling near Babbitt for Franconia Minerals
Natural Areas
- Star Tribune Editorial: Tending, and sharing, Minnehaha Creek
Transportation
- Star Tribune: Cycling’s political tour de finance
Water
- Mankato Free Press: Dam hole causes concern
- St. Cloud Times: Water consumption habits get nuns’ attention
- St. Cloud Times: Lake suffers another algae-based blow as toxins kill fish
- St. Cloud Times: Benton Beach closed due to hazardous levels of algae