Legislature
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Quirky Twists of Fate
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – March 26, 2010 “Peculiar haze, or smokey fog … unlike anything known within the memory of man.” – English naturalist Gilbert White, Summer 1783 Natural events in…
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A Flood of Activities at the Legislature This Week
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – March 19, 2010 “High water risin’ – risin’ night and day All the gold and silver being stolen away” -Robert Allen Zimmerman, September 2001* It was with…
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Some Good Agitation for Our State’s Nuclear Energy Policy
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – March 5, 2010 “I think the agitation that I made on the matter contributed much to the discontinuance by the government of the pernicious practice” -General Christopher…
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February Daydreams of Summer Canoe Trips
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – February 26, 2010 “There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace. …
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Has the Governor’s State of the State speech set the tone for a rancorous political session?
John Tuma’s Capitol Update “We, the people of the state of Minnesota, grateful to God for our civil and religious liberty and desiring to perpetuate its blessings and secure the same to…
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Off to a Good Start
John Tuma’s Capitol Update As the legislative session opens this week, legislators and Gov. Pawlenty have taken some positive early steps for the environment with the capital investments bill. Hopefully they will take…
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The Law of Nuclear Waste
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – The Pre-Session Version “There is a basic law of nuclear waste often overlooked – all waste remains where it is first put.” – Richard Wilson Riley, Then…
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Minnesota’s Dollars and Sense
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – the Pre-Session Version “This place is now feeling the pressure of hard times… they have not found bottom yet…they have recently voted to loan the credit of…
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Minnesota’s Rich History in the Debate over Nuclear Energy
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – The Pre-Session Version Most Minnesotans think the nuclear debate in Minnesota began with the 1994 battle dealing with the storage of nuclear waste in dry casks at…
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A Forgotten Legislator and a Big Constitutional Amendment
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – The Fall Version The third installment in a series about Minnesota’s role, now and in the past, in the local food movement. This week John traces the…