Legislature
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Local Food and the Minnesota State Constitution
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – the Fall Version The first installment in a series about Minnesota’s role, now and in the past, in the local food movement. “In California, in British Columbia,…
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Gold Prospector Turned Legendary Boundary Waters Woodsman
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – The Summer Version Lobbyist John Tuma tells the second half of the story of Benny Ambrose, a legendary Boundary Waters woodsman who learned the wilderness was more…
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Benny Ambrose and the Boundary Waters
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – The Summer Version Lobbyist John Tuma tells the story of Benny Ambrose, a lover and defender of the Boundary Waters who just wouldn’t be overpowered by government…
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The Recount Recounted: Minnesota Nightmare
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – The Summer Version The Recount Recounted: Minnesota Nightmare Lobbyist John Tuma compares this year’s seemingly endless U.S. Senate recount to another in Minnesota’s past, and the conservation…
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Capitol Update for May 29, 2009
This week’s Update from lobbyist John Tuma: “When we ended our cruise and our canoes grated on a sandy beach for the last time our hearts were heavy and yet how happy.”…
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Capitol Update for May 22, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Twins 4, Cardinals 2. The Twins’ Magic carpet took Minnesota to the moon Sunday night. It was born by the sound of 55,000 exploding voices…
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Capitol Update for May 15, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “When I reached the brink of the hill overlooking the surrounding country, I was struck with the picturesque beauty of the scene.”* -Henry Hastings Sibley
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Capitol Update for May 8, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Everything was running smoothly until 1-1/2 miles south of Spring Valley when suddenly there came a grinding noise, a lurch and a pitch, and over…
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Capitol Update for May 1, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “I love it, I love to sit across from them and go to it” -Willard Munger, May 6, 1994*
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Capitol Update for April 24, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Let’s call it the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party.” -Hubert Humphrey, August 1943*