Dr Wingnut

Category: Social/Environmental

  • Prescribed fire

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    The forest provides what the public wants: clean air, clean water, abundant fish and wildlife habitat, and a wealth of year-round recreation opportunities.  Those are not amenities you’ll find amid black sticks. Jim Peterson, President and Founder, The Evergreen Foundation as quoted in American Forest Fires: The untold story, Episode 3, Smoke on the Water,…

  • Some urging end to right on red, or at least caution

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    “What’s really behind this movement [right-turn no red semaphore] is part of the agenda to make driving as miserable and as difficult as possible so people don’t drive so much.” —Jay Beeber, Executive Director for Policy at the National Motorists Association To which I say, “Amen.”

  • New Highland Park parks named

    New Highland Park parks named

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    The St. Paul City Council on Wednesday approved four winners picked from the 302 submissions: Gateway Park, Assembly Union Park, U??i Makha Park and Mí?a Park. The parks, part of one of the largest redevelopment projects in city history, will open by 2022, according to developer Ryan Cos.’s project website. U??i Makha (pronounced oon-CHEE ma-KAH) and…

  • How far we’ve come

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    I get the Bloomberg Technology email blast every morning, and this one hit home particularly. I can’t believe that I’ve been working in tech for 37 years, and the items she mentions aren’t even the most amazing things to have happened in that time… Welcome to Bloomberg Technology, I’m Emily Chang in San Francisco. For 10…

  • Record cold

    Record cold

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    It’s been cold in Minnesota recently, like below zero cold, and we just missed breaking a record yesterday, but climate change is really hitting the rest of the midsection of the USA with record breaking cold that they just aren’t prepared for, especially in Texas where they were short 15-25 gigawatts for a couple of…

  • Saint Paul cares

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    More than Minneapolis according to a new ranking at WalletHub. Although, Minneapolis was only slightly lower than the “Silver City.” See patch.com

  • Now in the center ring…

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    The Trump Administration circus just keeps getting better. Barr belittled the career prosecutors he led, told U.S. attorneys to consider charging violent protesters under a sedition law that makes it a crime to interfere with law enforcement or plot a coup, compared coronavirus lockdowns to slavery, backed Trump’s unsupported assertion that a foreign power could…