Check out the debating skills of Len Anderson when he went toe-to-toe with Frank Ongaro (Executive Director of MiningMinnesota) over the Safe Mines to Protect Our Water legislation that was… Read more »
Posts By: Minnesota Environmental Partnership
What does the stimulus plan mean for our Great Outdoors?
While Minnesotans offer their ideas on how to deal with the massive state budget deficit at community hearings throughout the state in the next few weeks, we should take time… Read more »
Capitol Update for February 13, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “The selection of a chief author seals the fate of many bills… An author who possesses sound judgment and a competitive nature can… Read more »
Capitol Update for February 6, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Please Walk on Grass” -Theodore Wirth, Minneapolis Park Board Sign in the early 1900s*
Capitol Update for January 30, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “This place is now feeling the pressure of hard times… they have not found bottom yet, by considerable…they have recently voted to loan… Read more »
Capitol Update for January 23, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “I thought all he would be good for would be hauling a delivery wagon.”* – Dan Messner, the early 1900s Mr. Messner was… Read more »
Capitol Update for January 16, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Ya, and I used to be the Queen Elizabeth!” – A Montana shop clerk in the little hamlet of Elliston on the Continental… Read more »
Capitol Update for January 9, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him… Read more »
Capitol Update for December 5, 2008
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.” Alfred A. Knopf State Budget Forecast Predicts Largest Deficit… Read more »
Wishing won’t make it so
“Clean, fresh water is vital to all life. It is key to our image of who we are as Minnesotans and what we want for our children, and it is… Read more »