My Minnesota

If you read these postings, even irregularly, you may have noticed we have definite opinions about how Minnesota regulates mining permits. W...

Forty-three years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, with all twenty-nine crew, was lost in Lake Superior. Today the Split Rock Light House will h...

You may have noticed that Russia and Russians have been much in the news recently. Every mention reminds us of President Reagan's citati...

It's just our opinion, but there may be some significant flaws in our political system, exacerbated by some deficiencies in our educatio...

Copper-nickel mine proposers would have us believe that Minnesota's requirements are world class. We've been posting about sustainab...

We had to read it twice, these paragraphs from yesterday's story in the Duluth News Tribune by John Myers: "ERP stands for Earth...

We have an early Christmas present for some, perhaps all of you. It depends on how much of a William Gibson fan you are. We loved the Neurom...

We're back home in the South end of the North Country. The snow showers stopped a little South of Cloquet but the clouds continued to pr...

This is coming to you from snow-covered Embarrass, MN, on the Iron Range. We've already had lunch in Ely, shopped at Wintergreen and Ste...

Long, long ago (2010), in a country far, far away, it came about that "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines sustain...

The lead opinion piece in today's Star Tribune is: U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan: The green economy needs Minnesota mining As a constituent ...

The federal agencies with responsibility for the decision have decided not to renew the two mineral leases associated with copper-nickel mi...