State Representative David Bly, District 25B

The 2nd ‘4th Monday of the month’ LWV discussion focused on the Rice County Transportation Plan, which is still in process of being approved and implemented.According to the Rice County Website the plan is guided by the following elements:
Development of roadway standards that can be put into action across the County, these standards will answer […]

A week ago I wandered down to ‘Art on the Water’ gallery and visited with Dean Kjerland about his newly acquired collection of fossils from Hamline University and his ideas for development on Northfield’s West bank. The conversation meandered to the Key and the Northfield Union of Youth, which has been under some […]

“We get relatively inexpensive, reliable electricity. Who pays the price for our power?”
This was the question asked at last Wednesday evening’s forum hosted by ME3, RENew Northfield and Cannon River Watershed Partnership.
Ken Bradley from ME3’s JustEnergy talked about reducing energy consumption to lessen the cost both to our environment and to consumers. He used […]

I am surprised at some of the assumptions and opinions voiced on this issue without much background or thought from folks who did not attend the meeting described in the News. I attended the meeting because I was curious to learn more about it and went away with a clearer picture and still a […]

This has been a busy month and a half for me. Bringing the school year to a close, adding up the credits, making the final reports, packing up everything (as we were forced to move out of the space we designed for our ‘community based school’) and planning for summer school. I did […]

What we believe in makes us blind to what we do, which is exactly why we need democracy and the vision of our founders. In William H. McNeill's 1976 book, Plagues and Peoples, a new way of looking at the defeat of the original Americans was introduced. It was not the superiority of technology or […]

It seems a bit disingenuous for Republicans to say they were shocked by actions of the DFL Senate when their refusal to support efforts to ‘keep the lights on’ and insistence on interjecting reforms that had not passed in regular session should be brought into negotiations. There are two sides to the story and […]