2010

March

• Managing Those Dastardly Senate Democrats

• PAUL KRUGMAN: Health Reform Myths

• Robert Reich: The Sham Recovery

• Earmark Blowback?

• Post-Retirement and Post-Recession Income

• Competition and Innovation

• Let’s get it over with

• Looking Further at State Bonding Items

• Toyotas Are Safe (Enough)

• Legal Decisions for Toyota Owners?

• US may be headed for long decline. You don’t have to follow.

• Evolution not Revolution in Health Care

• Across America: Rapidly Changing Schools

• The Clogged Senate Problem

• Olmsted County DFL Convention Well Attended

• The Din that is America

• Why Job Forecasts are too Mild

• The Corporation as Persona

• Change has its own Agenda

• Abortion as a Health Care Reform Wedge Issue

• Blanche Lincoln is targeted for Removal from Office

February

• AL GORE: We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change

• Thomas L. Freidman: How the G.O.P. Goes Green

• Keeping an Eye on the Tea Party Movement

• Is Tort Reform a Good Idea?

• No Corporate Entitlement of Thirty Million Health Policies

• NY TIMES Editorial: After the Summit

• KRUGEMAN: Afflicting the Afflicted

• Facts of Life

• No Need to Start Over on Health Care

• Reich: Bust Up the Health Insurance Trusts

• The Bankruptcy Boys—PAUL KRUGMAN

• Drowning in the Undertow of Public Opinion

• Need for Universal Health Care is Demonstrated

• St. Paul Legislative thaw versus Governor’s Chilling Behavior

• Progressive Pondering: Evolution, Creationism, and the Supremes

• The Day the Worm Turned

• Return to Valhalla

• The Essence of Emeril

• A Dirty Job in a Far Away Place

• Simplify, Simplify, Simplify

• Mark Your Calendar – Party Unit Conventions in March

• Main Street Struggles

• Strengthening Dollar Is Good News

• A Year Off? Really?

• State Budget:  Uncertainty Fostered by Congress

• Sayonara to the Blue Dogs

• Severe Cuts are Bitter Medicine

• Essay: Death of a Political Party

• Next Gen Automotive Computers

• Getting the Jobs Bill back on track

• State of our State

• Pawlenty on the Right Track

• “Let’s Have At It”

• State Suggestion Box now Online

• Looking Back and Looking Ahead

• Going to a Tea Party

• Trade: Truth and Consequences

• Snowy Day Meditation

• Progressive Ponderings: Goldman Sachs Party

• Hitting the “Sweet Spot” in job creation

• Odd Politics in 2010

• Returning from Chaos

• Washington Is In Political Chaos

• Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power

• Caucuses a Bigger Deal Then You Might Think

• “Let’s Have At It”

• Bring the Mountain to Mohammed

January

• One more time

• Bitter Vetch along the Potomac, Hudson, and Mississippi

• March of the Peacocks

• Tea and Crumpets in Rochester

• Confronting the Nay Sayers

• A View of Things to Come

• Editorial: Adjust state laws after election ruling

• Do States Need to Legislate Health Care or will the Feds Handle It?

• Plea to Congress falls on deaf ears

• Progressive Ponderings: Absolute Power

• “Relax” says Harry – “Plenty of Time Ahead”

• Stressed Out Schools

• The Republican Health “Alternative”: Empowering Ourselves to Death

• CBO and Stimulus Spending

• Connected Economic Factors

• National Debt and More

• Congressional Delays Cause Planning Gridlock

• Myles Spicer: With no race to run, I can say it: Taxes

• Crying All the Way to the Bank

• Bombshell Week

• After the Storm

• The Critical Distinction Between a Lame Duck and a Dead Duck

• “I just want my country back”

• “Oh Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie”

• Extending the Vision of Martin Luther King

• Moving Ahead in Minnesota

• Time Is Not Our Friend

• Trash News Coverage of the Haitian Disaster

• Haiti Devastated by Quake

• Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later

• Nude Scanner Shown

• Paying Down the Deficit

• Harry Reid is a Pragmatic Politician

• Concerning Sets, Subsets, and Unemployment

• Public Option Still Needed

• Dissing Obama – a media sport

• Democrats depart in droves

• Too Slow for Comfort

• Must 2010 Be 1994?

• Dealing With Change

• The New Two Party System

• Health Conferees Need to Work for American Taxpayers

• Minnesota Is In A Pickle

• Paul Krugman: That 1937 Feeling

• Ending Health Care Gridlock

• Escape From Pottersville: Strengthening Banking in the Public Interest

• Opportunity and the American Dream

• America At War with al Qaeda

• Added Payoff from Alternative Energy Production

• America sets sail on her 2010 voyage

• Making Modest Scanners

• The Battle of 2010

• The Courts Have Ruled

2009

December

• Trolling For Votes in 2010

• Let the Bush Tax Cuts on the Wealthy Expire

• Closure with key political and legal issues needed in 2010

• Iran’s Woes Abound

• Michael Moore: Capitalism—A Love Story?

• Angry Americans turn the calendar page

• Security Concerns Abound

• The GOP has a problem with moving on

• Here Comes America – we’re back!

• “A Christmas Carol” Revisited

• The Bill That Nobody but Blue Cross Likes

• A Dangerous Dysfunction

• Change Behind and Change Ahead

• GIVE A GIFT OF TIME TO PEOPLE LOSING THEIR HEALTH COVERAGE

• The Polls Have Flipped on Healthcare

• Climate Change and Self-Interest

• Making Lemonade Out of Lemons

• Iraq, the Kurds and the Americans

• Progressive Ponderings: Bipartisan Militarism

• Bad News for Democrats

• Emission Control and Human Aid will fall to the G20

• Jobs Creation Needs Investment

• Paul Krugman: Disaster and Denial

• The Do-It-Yourself Economy

• Money, Money, Money

• Health Care Reform: “Goal Post Offense”

• Are Sanctions Effective?

• Real versus Imaginary Candidates

• Bam! Pow! Whack! Boom!

• In Good People We Trust

• Handcuffing Credit Card Rip-off Artists

• Dealing with Party Sell-outs

• Paul Krugman: An Affordable Truth

• Health Care – The Final Stretch

• Grand Forks Herald: “Minnesota Leaders Must Get Serious”

• The Pause That Refreshes

• Joy in SE Minnesota Politics

• Thomas J. Freidman: This I Believe

• The Coming Jobs Conference

• John McCain is Dead Wrong

November

• Piling On Obama

• Walter Mondale and David Lillehaug: Unallotment is at odds with the Minnesota Constitution

• A Fix For Our State Budget Deficit

• Iran on the wrong path for development

• Popping Bubbles

• Paul Krugman: Taxing the Speculators

• Student Teaching

• Currency Wars and Political Consequence

• Paul Krugman Reprint: The Chinese Disconnect

• New Health Care Changes Appear to Be Ready to Pass

• “To Thy Own-Self Be True”

• The Euro Problem

• Jobs Are Still Key

• Sunrise on Health Insurance

• Robert Reich | The Great Disconnect Between Stocks and Jobs

• US Looks Well Positioned for Copenhagen

• Stop Emptying the Jails

• Progressive Ponderings: Obama’s Self Conflict

• Suing the Governor

• GOP Needs to Go To Finance School

• MEDICARE Must Strike NOW

• Breaking Political Barriers

• Paul Krugman: Free to Lose

• Thank You Rep. Tim Walz

• An Update on State Budget Cuts

• Our Way or the Highway?

• Progressive Ponderings “Media Is Power”

• Saturn Missing the Opportunity of the Century

• Veterans Day 2009

• Newspapers Are Not Dead

• Strong Dollar – Inflated Euro

• Some Senators on the Fence Post

• Getting Stubborn About Job Creation

• Sunrise on health care reform

• Rochester Businesses Exiting Recession

• Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

• Progressive Ponderings: A genuinely profitable investment

• No Jobs? Now What?

• NY TIMES: The Off-Off-Year Elections

• Raising Lazarus

• State Fiscal Trap Requires Productivity Gain

• Big Piles of Paper and Lots of GOP Nonsense

• Next Steps in Economics

October

• Silent Service – Silent Hero’s

• Garrison Keillor: Betting against America

• Paul Krugman: The Defining Moment

• FREIDMAN: Don’t Build Up

• Turning the Page in Minnesota

• Progressive Ponderings: Purchased Democracy

• The Best Team In Politics

• The Tides of Washington

• The Last Vote Problem

• “It Ain’t Over ‘Till It’s Over”—Yogi Berra

• Paul Krugman: After Reform Passes

• Setting a Gold Standard for Minnesota

• Making Muddled Watered Down Legislation

• Opt Out Plan Is Nutty Idea

• Safe Flight Is No Accident

• Closing our Minnesota budget gap

• The American Odd Couple

• That sound you hear is the social fabric about to snap

• A Forecaster’s Dilemma

• Those Stubborn Unemployment Numbers

• Oh yes—he is certainly “Tough Enough”

• At the Edge of a Public Option

• Pakistan Front is a Good Thing

• Star Tribune Editorial: Improving learning one kid at a time

• Cussing The American Dollar

• Our Election Frequency is Helpful

• Yawn - Gee Martha, Heathcare Reform Passed in some Senate Group

• Congress Is Not Working For Us

• Whose Deficit Is It Anyhow?

• Change Dynamics and our American Social Order

• Congressional Job Approval Down to 29% and Falling

• Bizarre Politics Practiced by Bizarre People

• Where have all the Republicans gone?

• Nancy Is Right On

• Malarky from the GOP Media

• Congratulation Pres. Obama on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize

• Algae and Me

• Goofing Up Health Care Reform by: Jim Hightower, t r u t h o u t | Perspective Wednesday 07 Oc

• Alternative Energy Consequences

• Gov. Pawlenty needs to work with others

• Cushioning Unemployment

• Editorial: GOP field leaves room for moderate

• War in Afghanistan Reviewed

• Paul Krugman: The Politics of Spite

• What Can I Do?

• Chicago, Chicago—My Home Town

• Where Are the Jobs?

• Solving Medi-Gap Problems

• Moving On to Our Destiny

• Our Unemployment Problem

• Achieving Smart Cities

• The truth about jobs that no one wants to tell

• Mission Not Accomplished

September

• Senate Finance fails to deliver a Public Option

• Public Plan Won’t Kill the Insurance Industry

• Public Health Option is to be introduced tomorrow 9/29/09

• Dealing with Afghan Corruption

• Video Trends In Cable and the Internet

• Wind Energy Outlook for North America

• Changing American Education and Healthcare

• Lori Sturdevant: As always, Arne Carlson speaks his mind

• Public Education Changes Being Discussed

• Reluctant Retirees

• Tough Choices in Tough Times

• What is this Ideology Stuff Anyhow?

• Regulating the Goose That Lays Golden Eggs

• Paul Krugman: It’s Easy Being Green

• Steve Andreasen: Missile defense—let’s count to 10

• Managing a Virtual Filibuster

• The public knows the GOP is fibbing

• A Tiny Tax Could Do a World of Good

• Paul Krugman: Reform or Bust

• Bleak Time Ahead for CIA Torturers and Iraq Invaders

• Where Have All The Young Men Gone?

• Swine Flu Lessons Not Lost

• Those Dark Forces of Anarchy, Hate, and Division

• Capping the Cost of American Health Care

• Where Are the New Jobs?

• Steve Andreasen: Obama can reach for transformative nuclear policy

• Rx For American Health Care

• The Sound of Dissent

• Big Stake in the Ground for Senate Health Care Reform

• Realigning Government Power Brokers

• A Tourist View of Minnesota

• “Off With Their Heads” Cries the Queen of Hearts

• Obama’s Right – Get It Done Now!

• Walz Right On Top of Mayo Clinic Needs

• The Bottom Line

• Trying For a National Health Care Plan

• Minnesota outlook: ‘We have an economic tsunami coming our way’

• Time to stop the health-care tease

• Baucus Health Plan is a Reject

• Uncivil Discourse

• State Role in Health Insurance Implosion

• Businessmen and Healthcare Reform

• Afghanistan: Now What?

• How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?

• NY TIMES Editorial: Respect Your Children

• Fuel Explosion in Pakistan

• Labor Day Meditation

• Let’s Get It On

• The Greatest Hoax

• Public Health Care Shortcuts

• Managing Unemployment

• Smart Grids, New Networks, and Demanding Users

• Don’t Fear for Obama – he’s in fighting shape

• GOP Insults Doctors and Nurses

• As the Dollar Turns

August

• Investing in America

• Chaney’s Anguish

• Bill Moyers Disses Dems as “Spineless”

• Change, Management, and National Economics

• Accommodating the Needs of Others

• Beware “inside sources” who say the public option is dead

• The Dog Days of Summer

• How Will Health Care Reform Go?

• As Coal Retreats

• Teaching, Learning, and Educational Challenges

• Why I Sleep Nights In Spite of Bad Deficit News

• Hello – it’s working again

• Tea-Cuppers will Dwindle

• Cough It Up

• The Guns of August

• Choosing Among Health Care Insurance Models

• Republicans, Religion and the Triumph of Unreason

• Healthcare: Follow the Money

• Healthcare: Follow the Money

• The GOP and the Future of Negotiation

• More Blah, Blah, Blah on American Health Insurance

• Pushing on for Reform

• Sebelius is Wrong!

• NY Times: Health Reform and Small Business

• Slip-Sliding Along in our Economy

• Why my fellow Americans are so angry at us Democrats

• Chris Andryski : Time to decide if employer-based health coverage is best

• Paul Krugman: Averting the Worst

• NYTIMES: A Scary Reality

• Seeking Inner Peace through Knowledge

• What This Country Needs Is an Outburst of Common Sense

• The Case for Deficit Spending

• Heard Above the Noise

• Take Two Aspirins and call me in the morning

• By Their ACTIONS You Shall Know Them

• Misinformation Campaign on ‘Cash for Clunkers’

• Paul Krugman: The Town Hall Mob

• Economic A-Bomb

• Fixing State Structural Deficit

• Relax – It’s Working

• Challenges of Public Life

• The Clintons’ High-Return Diplomacy

• Barack’s Progress Report

• Sad State of Iranian Affairs

• Healthcare Confusion and Communication Blockages

• National Economy: Recovering; Minnesota Economy: Lagging

• The Fire Department: A Public Option

• GOP Bad Boy Tactics Must be Denied

• Whispered Prayers for Success

• Worker Myths, Tensions, and Solutions

• Throwing Rocks Inside a Glass Greenhouse

• Can Government Work Smoothly?

• Controlling Healthcare costs

• Obama Is Succeeding on Health Care Passage

• Recovery Is Coming at a Steady Pace

July

• The Great Tax Con Job

• House Speaker Takes the Lead on Job Creation

• Even More Unemployable People

• Will or Can the U.S. Go Broke and Become Bankrupt?

• Congress Should Beware of Letting People Down

• The Future of Monopolies

• Looking Ahead

• The Dirty Little Secret of Job Creation

• A Person of Character and Purpose

• It’s Time to Call The Vote

• National Health Care Policy Ready for a Vote

• Health Care Change is Coming On like Sun Rise

• What Is Macro Economics Anyhow?

• A Left-Footed March to Change