Maplewood Voices

The Butanes provide an amazing soul revue at the Minnesota Historical Society's Nine Nights of Music.

Social Security is not "Government Spending" by Jacob Davies There's a schizophrenia over Social Security among t...

Klezmer group Millie and the Mentshn warm up for Number 2 of the Minnesota History Center's 2010 Nine Nights of Music series .

If you go to a concert or other public event just to talk with your friends, go to a bar. If you stay at the event, attend to the event. Tho...

[h/t Eric Black ]

From Senator Franken's website : National League of Cities: Local Jobs for America Act Introduced in the Senate Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-O...

h/t NASA

On June 15 DFL Senate District 55 held an endorsing convention for the Maplewood City Council seat to be filled by special election on Aug...

The Sunday Star Tribune for May 9, 2010 featured the fascinating front page article "State's bad teachers rarely get fired"...

Honor the fallen. While we daydream, they have been serving in harm's way. [ arrangements ]

From Minnpost : [The Minnesota Supreme Court ruling] affirms the previous ruling by Ramsey Chief Judge Kathleen Gearin. The summary sentence...

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Diana Longrie challenged actual Democrat Representative Betty McCollum for the DFL CD 4 endorsement at today's convention in Roseville....

The Preamble to the Ethics Code of the Society of Professional Journalists : Preamble Members of the Society of Professional Journalists bel...

Lollie News . And this today

John Holbo at Crooked Timber : Suppose you have a two-party system. One of these parties enjoys/enforces total party discipline, the oth...

Here is another view on the question "what does a real Democrat look like?", this time from Georgia. Update: Minnesota 6th Congres...

Vice President Biden explains the 'but for' test: [From a CBS Special Report. The entire speech is here . The extract is from about ...

219 / 212: HR 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - passes .

President Obama spoke to the House of Representatives Democratic Caucus on Saturday, March 20,2010 to encourage a 'Yes' vote on heal...

Matt Yglesius makes a bullet point style argument about land use regulations, density, and sprawl — Throughout America there are many regul...

From the Maplewood City Council packet for March 22, 2010 , Agenda Item M-1: CITY ATTORNEY REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL MARCH 22, 2010 The City of...

Most of the attention of the 160 or so delegates to today's DFL Senate District 55 convention was focused on gubernatorial candidates. T...

While I have no great love for IBM, this commercial is interesting from an urban policy point of view. I am not sure if it is still true tod...

This chart documents Stage 2 of the Molsen Hydrologic Cycle. Update Astute reader TM points out that this chart only captures that portion ...

The Maplewood Police Department has issued this scam alert via Nixle : LATEST IDENTITY THEFT SCAM TRENDS: U.S. Census Scam Beginning Marc...

Effective government , in this case enforced building codes, saves lives. Earthquake scientists, building engineers and political scientist...

Treat all Americans the same Actual Democrat Congresswoman Louise Slaughter .

Sen. Dick Durbin to Republicans: "You think it's a socialist plot and it's wrong? For goodness sakes, drop out of the federal e...

From wikipedia, Piñata : A piñata is a brightly-colored papier-mâché covering either a clay container or cardboard shape. It may have origin...