Minnesota’s environmental organizations do great work advocating for clean water and air. Some of you may be members of Clean Water Action, Sierra Club – NorthStar chapter, and Conservation Minnesota. They have many fronts they work on and one is legislative. I was fortunate to get a 100% rating from them every year I served [...]
If you listened Wed. July 20th you heard my conversation with Dan Dimick, a therapist, who works with a number of vulnerable people in our area and he describes what potential budget cuts mean for those constituents and wonders how we will meet their needs if as a society we don’t see the value in [...]
Those of you interested in some coverage of the proceedings of the Special Session might find these comments by Rep. Rick Hansen interesting: It is 3:10 pm and we have convened into special session. 124 members are present. The Majority has moved a recess to the call of the chair. The following bills have been [...]
This Wednesday, June 22nd I interview Rep. Rick Hansen of South St. Paul. Rick is in his 4th term and serves on the Agriculture and Rural Development Policy and Finance, Capital Investment, Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Policy and Finance committees. Rick also served as an important member of the committee that over saw the Legacy funds. [...]
Last Saturday I took a trek down to Rushford Minnesota to join other DFLers in a discussion of Gov. Dayton’s proposal to ‘tax the rich.’ Former State Rep. (31B) Ken Tschumper had organized the event and invited several other local folks to join him. Here is the agenda: Everything about Budget Projections Ken Tschumper; former [...]
From Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources: If candlelight events are not already an annual tradition for you, let this be the season where you get out and experience winter adventure in a whole new light. Short, easy trails will be lit with lanterns or luminaries, and you can drop in any time during the events [...]
Projects are being sought in specific environment and natural resource areas that provide multiple ecological and other public benefits. Proposals responding to the 2011-2012 RFP are due Friday, April 9, 2010. Funding priorities categories are: The RFP is being administered by the Legislative Citizen Commission of Minnesota Resources which is made up of 17 members [...]
As part of the process for establishing rules for the Mississippi River Corridor Critical Area, the Department of Natural Resources is seeking interested parties to participate in work groups to provide input on rulemaking for the MRCCA. The DNR is currently considering convening 1 to 4 work groups that will each meet 3 or 4 [...]