$1 million equals about 20 cents per Minnesota resident (5.4 million population; triple the population in 1905) $1 billion equals about 3 dollars per United States resident (314 million population)* Earlier this week I was visiting with my local state Legislator, Rep. JoAnn Ward. Rep. Ward is an outstanding Representative: very intelligent and hard-working. She […]
UPDATE July 16: Here’s how the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports on All Star Day in Minneapolis. (click to enlarge) Tonight we experience the All-Star Game in the Twin Cities. About the only advantage we have, here, is that there is more “news” on the local media. A privileged few from all over the country will […]
The below letter of mine, published in the July 9, 2014, Woodbury Bulletin seems to fit todays post about the so-called crisis at the Mexico border. My letter was about war versus peace; the letter to which I refer in my letter was about revulsion towards a certain flag that represented “utopian” ideals. No matter, […]
I wrote yesterday about my personal “history” with Prairie Home Companion; then I spent four hours at Macalester, and added a few photos of the event to the post. You can see it all here. There is a temptation to go back today…and tomorrow as well. But there’ll be plenty of other folks there, and […]
UPDATE July 5, here. There are big doings at Macalester College in St. Paul this weekend, celebrating 40 years of Garrison Keillor and Prairie Home Companion (PHC). The St. Paul Pioneer Press (last Sunday) and Minneapolis Star Tribune (yesterday) had long articles about the anniversary. You can read them here and here. Thanks to my […]
UPDATE to Fortnight for Freedom: several comments are included at the end of the post. The last few days have marked two significant anniversaries. June 28 marked the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which led, a month later, to the awful World War I. Today, July 2, is the 50th anniversary […]
My friend, Bruce, and I were in one of our occasional jousting modes earlier today. I had sent along a post including a commentary by a self-described member of the .01%ers – the super wealthy. Basically, Mr. Hanauer, reminded his fellow super-wealthy folks that starving the middle class was not productive for the wealthy. The […]
A few hours after publishing this post, I went on my daily walk, and found this in chalk along the curb. It had been placed there since yesterday (I always walk the same route)*. UPDATE on the photo, June 29: I went by the spot about noon, and no evidence of the chalked saying – […]
Late yesterday afternoon was beautiful weather for driving, east bound from North Dakota to the Twin Cities. A brilliant sun was at our back, and all around us were those wonderful puffy cumulus clouds, and farther ahead magnificent “mountain ranges” of white clouds atop rainy weather somewhere to the east. The vista began about Freeport […]
A few hours ago we were a pizza party for a friend who just turned 50. It was the usual kind of casual gettogether. Small talk. Catching up with people you haven’t seen for awhile. A cake with two candles: “5” and “0”, singing “Happy Birthday to you….” Each of us at or beyond that […]