Lahammer on Mining Hearing

Mary Lahammer, with public televisions Almanac at the Capitol, was at the hearing Thursday on the Iron Range.  The focus was the Department of Health’s withholding public information for a year on the increasing death rate of miners.  In a note on her blog, She takes to task both the commissioner and the media:

Channel 9 was the only other metro media to show up — that’s a disappointment to me; this is an issue that should matter to every Minnesotan. People are dying. Public information you pay for was kept private.