East Box: Avaricious and mendacious interests ask City Council to reverse Attorney General opinion

At the latest City Council meeting last Wednesday, a half dozen tenacious provincials buttressed the secretive, avaricious and mendacious East Box entrepreneurs looking to exploit resources for robber-baron takings using Machiavellian wiles. The testosterone was thick in the room as these white male bidness folks crossed arms and made malevolent faces while attorney Dehlia Seim defended the self-named gun-toting gals from the East Box.
To quote dear Gertrude Stein, “There is no there there.” That sums up the futile arguments of the Gals that they had a “done deal” to get the council to cede its sidewalk despite advice from the City Clerk and City Attorney and the recent opinion by the highest attorney in the state that the giveaway is illegal.
Council member Ed Bolstad moved to rescind the illegal granting of the permanent easement last December, but was persuaded by Clerk Mike Roth to withdraw the motion until the next council meeting in hopes that the Gals would accept a “compromise” solution.

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Smokestacks in a White Wilderness Divide Iceland - New York Times

Read this post and ask whether anything about Alcoa's arguments sounds familiar. Like, just the same as PolyMet's in the previous Duluth Tribune story?
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Smokestacks in a White Wilderness Divide Iceland - New York Times

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The Writings of Molly Ivins - Hello - The Texas Observer

"Hello, hello, hello, hello.
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
That's all there is.
And the leaves that were green turn to brown."
-Simon and Garfunckel, vintage my and Molly's generation


The Writings of Molly Ivins - Hello - The Texas Observer

The Unsinkable Molly Ivins - Goodbye - The Texas Observer

Molly, we miss you. What will we do without you?

The Writings of Molly Ivins - Goodbye - The Texas Observer

Coal Plants Prompt Warning

Here's a national story about the impact of coal-fired power plant emissions. We have a proposal from Minnesota Power to mitigate the damage but so far as I know it does not affect global warming. The latest word from international scientists is that fossil fuels are the biggest culprit in the imminent collapse of world ecosystems (i.e., within the next century).

Let's think twice or three times about expanding present energy consuming plants or even mitigating some of their negative environmental impacts. Let's think: do we want to leave a good planet to our children and grandchildren?

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Coal Plans Prompt Warning

Molly Ivins, 1944-2007

Molly Ivins, 1944-2007