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Tom Neuville: “I simply don’t accept that global warming is caused by humans.”

March 27th, 2007 • Local

I was emphatic about Jessica Peterson for a reason. Over the past month, our freshy reelected state senator Tom Neuville has been blogging his “skepticism” on global warming.
You’ll have to read through the posts yourself for the full effect, but here are the juiciest quotes I found:
“The economic consequenses of ‘fixing’ global warming, thru the […]

Cold

February 5th, 2007 • Local

But the sun is shining!

This is my suprised face

December 5th, 2006 • Local, Opinion

WCCO Television ran a story earlier tonight on a study conducted showing that Federated has thus far not won over Twin Cities customers. In September, they replaced the 150-year-old midwest-recognized Marshall Fields with the tackily rampant Macy’s brand…

Infamy: Coleen Rowley

October 28th, 2006 • Current Events, Local, Politics

It was October 2004. Like the much of the country, I was eating, drinking, and breathing the presidential election. But I hadn’t given two seconds’ thought to the U.S. House race. That is, until I saw the first television ad for the race, one from the Teresa Daly campaign. It featured her, if I recall correctly, blathering about internet porn — she was probably not quite as singular as my memory would have me believe, but that’s all remember her talking about. To top that off, Daly had virtually no political experience to speak of…