Category: General
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Letter to the Minnepolis Star-Tribune
Thank you for running Governor Dayton’s editorial. The Governor made many good points, however he missed the most important point; that passage of the amendment would constitute a poll tax on the Elderly and other. Poll taxes have been repeatedly rejected by the Supreme court as unconstitutional on the basis that it violates the Equal…
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Moving on…
Just killed our home phone number after 28 years. All we get anymore are solicitations and political calls. RIP 1-651-699-9940.
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Barack to the future
In the January 2009 issue of Harpers, an item appeared the readings section called Barack to the future. It was an excerpt of a letter from a conservative right wing group dated today claiming the the world would be a much worse place now than it was in the first month of the Obama administration.Read…
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IEEExtreme Programming Challenge
I was the initial proctor for the 2012 IEEExtreme Programming Challenge at the U of M this year. The field had expanded from a single team last year to four teams this year. At this rate, then they will need a bigger IEEE lab at the U next year.
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Learning the lingo of the ‘near’ east
ST. PAULROCHELLE OLSONWoe be unto the westerner who crosses the Mississippi River ill-versed in the language of the east metro. Here then is a visitors guide to the eastern Twin Cities: West St. Paul and the West Side of St. Paul are not the same. The first is a city in Dakota County; the other…
