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Strom: Cooking the books betrays our trust
The Veteran’s Affairs scandal didn’t just hurt veterans — which is more than bad enough — but it also changed the political debate about health care reform quite substantially.
Strom: What, exactly, was the point?
Government officials’ near maniacal devotion to building rail transit fits into the “cool but pointless” category of public spending
Strom: Money is bad! Money is good!
To hear the left tell it, they are the plucky little Davids against a growing tide of conservative corporate cash threatening to drown politics in oligarchic money.
Strom: Do agreements matter?
Gov. Mark Dayton is encouraging DFL state legislators to break an agreement they made with Republicans last year.
Strom: Legislature tells nonprofits to ‘shut up!’
Lawmakers are on the verge of passing bills essentially shutting down outside groups’ ability to talk to voters at election time
Strom: How to break the law and win
It seems if you are wealthy enough and crafty enough, you can flout the rules and walk away.
David Strom: MoveMN’s bad plan
It’s always easier to raise taxes dedicated to some recognizable public good.
David Strom: Government, stay in your lane
Back in 1967, the Metropolitan Council was created to solve a problem: The growing population of the Twin Cities region had a sewage problem spawned by a patchwork of sewer and septic systems, and letting the problem fester would be a significant problem for public health.
David Strom: Dazed and confused
When I was growing up, many of my peers smoked cigarettes, marijuana, or both. In my teen years, I tried both, and got hooked on cigarettes and pretty much hated marijuana — the reverse was true of many of my friends.
David Strom: Wealth and poverty
It’s an election year, so it’s time for yet another demagogic debate designed to divide. This year we will be treated to a nasty and ultimately fruitless fight over “inequality.” Politicians will point fingers; laws will be proposed; speeches will be given; and constituencies will be mobilized.
David Strom: It’s a free country …
The current obsession with people’s “feelings” and our readiness to be offended has led to yet another escalation in the now-permanent culture wars.
David Strom: Minnesota v. Wisconsin: Huh?
It has become newly fashionable to compare Wisconsin’s rather anemic economic recovery to Minnesota’s rather more robust one — and to suggest that this is proof that Gov. Mark Dayton’s aggressively liberal policies are therefore superior to Gov. Scott Walker’s more conservative approach.
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