Tag: politics
member name: Kat Eldred
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December 30, 2006 03:43 PM EST --
We were sitting in the living room when the news anchor announced: Saddam Hussein was put to death. I had heard rumblings that it was “imminent”, “soon to happen”, . . .
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January 02, 2007 11:58 AM EST --
In the last few days we have heard so much commentary on Gerald Ford. Some of us remember the day he took office. I was in junior high, but I remember the sense of relief . . .
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November 08, 2006 11:34 AM EST --
The pendulum of politics always swings in the U.S. It's one thing I have always had faith in. Sometimes it takes a while; but through this mid-term election the "pulse of the . . .
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December 12, 2006 10:43 AM EST --
This is something I would appreciate having access to. I have often lamented about the lack of rail passage in the United States, after having lived in Europe and never needing a car to get . . .
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August 22, 2006 03:45 PM EDT --
MPR's Bob Kelleher, recently reported a potential environmental concern over Excelsior Energy's plan to build a coal digasification plant in northern Minnesota's Iron Range region.
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September 19, 2006 12:12 PM EDT --
The group may prove to be more then it's moniker "COG", but for now members of the Community Optimists Group (COG) simply want to work towards a better future for Two Harbors. . . .
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December 04, 2006 11:51 AM EST --
Do you remember the $300 tax rebate checks you got from President Bush? Sure $300 in the mail is nice, but I also remember that this was a time that most of the social services in our town . . .
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February 12, 2007 11:19 AM EST --
I don’t care who debates what about global warming, we don’t need to debate the fact that we are dependent on oil or that the exhaust from our cars is damaging to the earth and our bodies. . . .
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March 19, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
I benefited from universal health care when I was a student living and working in England back in the 1980’s. I walked into the free clinic and within an hour I had been treated . . .
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May 24, 2007 03:59 PM EDT --
Our family outing last Sunday brought us to the doorsteps of the Eco-Home at Hawk Ridge in Duluth’s Lakeside neighborhood.. The kids were not overly thrilled about the venture, but my husband . . .
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October 31, 2006 11:54 AM EST --
As election day nears we hear so much spin that I'm surprised that this one stuck in my head. I heard a Republican slam his "tax and spend liberal" opponent. I . . .
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August 28, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
At the University of Minnesota back in the 1980's a comment one lecturer made really stuck with me throughout the years. His comment:
"Overall American's . . .
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September 18, 2006 12:13 PM EDT --
MPR journalist Stephanie Hemphill's report Mixed signals on energy policy highlights how federal and state governments need to clarify what their policy is on alternative energy.
Americans are . . .
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November 06, 2006 11:42 PM EST --
Having just returned to Northern Minnesota, I have been curious about Oberstar's appeal. I remembered his name from the early 1980's when I was a student at the University of . . .
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February 13, 2007 10:55 AM EST --
MPR recently reported that Minnesotan Dan Wilson (Semisonic’s singer/guitarist) co-wrote many songs on the Dixie Chicks Grammy Award winning album “Taking the Long Way”, including “Not . . .
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September 06, 2006 10:55 AM EDT --
Kudos to everyone who will get out and vote in the mid-term elections. Some folks do not think it is important to vote; evident in the percentage of the population that does not vote. . . .
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January 12, 2007 11:40 AM EST --
The Minnesota state Legislature convened on January 3, 2007 and so begins the “Minnesota Fantasy Legislature” brought to you by Minnesota Public Radio.
It’s a little bit like playing . . .
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March 03, 2007 11:04 AM EST --
I think that the next wave in consumer driven societal change will address authenticity. What corporation or business is actually authentic?; do they really care about the . . .
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October 13, 2006 03:41 PM EDT --
I had a sort of "driveway moment" today, you know those moments when what you are hearing on the radio is so compelling that once you arrive home, you sit in your driveway listening instead . . .
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November 07, 2006 12:25 PM EST --
I voted on my way in to work this morning and am proudly sporting my "I Voted" sticker. Some folks will see this sticker and remember today is the day to vote, I know it has happened . . .
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