Social/Environmental

Prescribed fire

05/27/2024 Jonathan Lord Comments Off

The forest provides what the public wants: clean air, clean water, abundant fish and wildlife habitat, and a wealth of year-round recreation opportunities. Those are not amenities you’ll find amid black sticks. Jim Peterson, President […]

Some urging end to right on red, or at least caution

11/07/2023 Dr Wingnut 0

“What’s really behind this movement [right-turn no red semaphore] is part of the agenda to make driving as miserable and as difficult as possible so people don’t drive so much.” —Jay Beeber, Executive Director for […]

New Highland Park parks named

04/22/2021 Dr Wingnut 0

The St. Paul City Council on Wednesday approved four winners picked from the 302 submissions: Gateway Park, Assembly Union Park, U??i Makha Park and Mí?a Park. The parks, part of one of the largest redevelopment […]

How far we’ve come

03/04/2021 Dr Wingnut 0

I get the Bloomberg Technology email blast every morning, and this one hit home particularly. I can’t believe that I’ve been working in tech for 37 years, and the items she mentions aren’t even the […]

Record cold

02/16/2021 Dr Wingnut 0

It’s been cold in Minnesota recently, like below zero cold, and we just missed breaking a record yesterday, but climate change is really hitting the rest of the midsection of the USA with record breaking […]

Saint Paul cares

12/15/2020 Dr Wingnut 0

More than Minneapolis according to a new ranking at WalletHub. Although, Minneapolis was only slightly lower than the “Silver City.” See patch.com

Now in the center ring…

12/14/2020 Dr Wingnut 0

The Trump Administration circus just keeps getting better. Barr belittled the career prosecutors he led, told U.S. attorneys to consider charging violent protesters under a sedition law that makes it a crime to interfere with […]