Category: Social/Environmental
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How wrong is this perception?
The other day, my 18-year-old son said to me: “When your generation [last of the baby boomers] grew up, you knew you had to work hard or end up without anything to eat or a place to live, but today people know the government will provide for them, so they don’t spend the time investing…
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Tour de Sprawl
Rode the Tour de Sprawl with the Sierra Club today to see the path of the new Green Line extension that will go to Eden Prairie Mall. Very interesting how we might actually be a real city some day…
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Magic. Not just for technology any more…
Any sufficiently advanced financial instrument is indistinguishable from fraud.via @josh_braun, retweeted by @tcollen, 2013-06-05 09:36
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Number 12
Minnesota became the 12th state to approve marriage equality. The Governor will sign the bill today at a 1700 hour ceremony, and the law will take effect 2013-08-01. I was hoping that we would pass a bill just after Iowa courts changed the law there, but alas, we had to wait for all of New…
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Freedom to Marry Day
Today, join Minnesotans United for all Families at a rally in the Minnesota State Capitol Rotunda at 15:00 for a first step towards working with state legislators to change the law so that loving and committed same-sex couples should have the freedom to marry.It’s really pitiful that Iowa is so far ahead of Minnesota on…
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Winds of Change…
In three days, most people in The United States of America will have this message. This is one idea that really should be passed aroundCongressional Reform Act of 2012No Tenure/No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they’re out of office.Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social…