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Read MoreMinnesota Gun Safety: Shot Down By…Democrats?!!!
This post is re-published from The UpTake, where it first appeared. All winter long, hundreds of gun-carrying opponents of gun safety laws crowded the Minnesota State Capitol, ostentatiously presenting their numbers and their obvious weapons during the difficult debates over proposals to tighten gun safety laws in the state. So I was surprised, upon entering the Gun and Knife Show at the Anoka...
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Read MoreErnest Wabasha: The Burden of History
I was 30 years old, a journalist with a passing knowledge of Indian history. Yet it had never occurred to me, until I came across the name of Ernest Wabasha one day, that people still lived among us who were connected to the terrible events of 1862-63, the time of the so-called “Sioux Uprising” and the exile and banishment of the Dakota Sioux from their homeland. But there it was: The great-great...
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Read MoreGUNS WIN! Shoot-Out at the Capitol Corral
Update on The UpTake: Today, 2-14-13, I ask how Minnesota is supposed to try to have a real discussion about guns when the discussion room is FULL of guns. Please see: www.theuptake.org — Nick Coleman What a week for guns! Minnesota was awash in gun talk this week, starting with President Barack Obama’s visit to...
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Read MoreNot Exactly, “Off With Their Heads!” Dayton Raises Taxes on Rich by 2 Percent.
This post was published originally by The UpTake, www.theuptake.org A somewhat gimpy Gov. Mark Dayton, walking gingerly after recent back surgery, threw down a challenge Tuesday to the “powerful opposition” he said he expects to resist his budget plan for the 2014-15 biennium, which includes a 2-percent tax increase on Minnesota’s wealthiest 2 percent of taxpayers. After a decade of...
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Read MoreMacy’s to St. Paul: Suck It!
A few years ago, I popped into the Macy’s Department Store in downtown St. Paul looking for winter jackets for my three growing school boys, aged 7, 5 and 3. I couldn’t find any warm jackets in the children’s department, so I went looking for the Warm Coat Department I figured must be located somewhere else. I returned to the “children’s” area, puzzled, after a search of...
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Read More150 Years After America’s Largest Mass Execution, the Quest for Healing Continues
HONORING THE 38 I took this video as about 100 Dakota Indian riders arrived in Mankato, MN on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, to honor the 38 Dakota warriors hanged in Mankato 150 years earlier — Dec. 26, 1862 — in America’s largest mass execution. The riders began their arduous 340-mile journey on Dec. 10 at Lower Brule, South Dakota and arrived in Mankato to traditional...
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Read MoreSurvival: Proud Descendants of The Exiled
A pair of bald eagles floated high above the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers Tuesday as a line of Dakota Indians, following in the footsteps of their exiled ancestors, rounded a highway curve in Mendota and marched towards Fort Snelling. And towards a spiritual healing of Minnesota’s most painful chapters — the executions, imprisonments and forced removal of the Dakota from...
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Read MoreThe MN Marriage Amendment Fight | Bad Catholics: Divorced Mailman Scolds Family, Says Their Daughter is Diseased
On this All Saints Day, when the church celebrates all those, known and unknown, who have been united with God in heaven, I’d like to discuss a disturbing newspaper story that appeared last week about the battle over the proposed Minnesota “Marriage Amendment” on the Nov. 6 election ballot. You may remember the story: A devout Catholic family whose daughter is a lesbian was harshly...
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Minnesota Gun Safety: Shot Down By…Democrats?!!!
This post is re-published from The UpTake, where it first appeared. All winter long, hundreds of gun-carrying opponents of gun safety laws crowded the Minnesota State Capitol, ostentatiously presenting their...
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Ernest Wabasha: The Burden of History
I was 30 years old, a journalist with a passing knowledge of Indian history. Yet it had never occurred to me, until I came across the name of Ernest Wabasha one day, that people still lived among us who were...
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GUNS WIN! Shoot-Out at the Capitol Corral
Update on The UpTake: Today, 2-14-13, I ask how Minnesota is supposed to try to...
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Obama Minneapolis Visit Highlights Gun Control Divide
(The following post was written for The UpTake) Story by Nick Coleman....
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Not Exactly, “Off With Their Heads!” Dayton Raises Taxes on Rich by 2 Percent.
This post was published originally by The UpTake, www.theuptake.org A somewhat...
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Will Minnesota Democrats Deliver on Their Pledge to Tax the Rich?
From The UpTake, a timely question as Minnesota’s DFL Party takes...
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Macy’s to St. Paul: Suck It!
A few years ago, I popped into the Macy’s Department Store in downtown...
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