Posts Tagged ‘Minnesota’
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While you were spending time resting, relaxing, and ringing in 2012, your favorite bloggers at USDemocrazy were keeping tabs on some of the most interesting stories of the new year.
Hate unused and seemingly useless balances on old metro cards? Some students at NYU have proposed an idea that would allow the more than $52 million dollars in unused fares to be used for community-based charities.
All eyes are on Iowa as the nation predicts the Republican nominee – well, most of them. A new study on the ever-coveted undecided voters seeks to define the complexities of the group. Twelve distinct types were found, including the Apathetics that are actually less likely to vote for candidates that try hard to get their votes. Another researcher claims that undecided voters are just interested in a candidate that can beat Obama.
Hundreds of people in Minneapolis protested the end of hawalas services there, the wire-transfer service that allows the largest population of Somali immigrants in the United States to send money back home. US banks call the transfers too risky, while many people that rely on the service are unsure of where to turn.
Continue to keep an eye on our posts this year for updates, especially as we move into election season!
Image thanks to the LA Times!
It’s okay Silvio, the Italians are pretty sick of you too.
Wake up and smell the smog!
Don’t have time to read Dick Cheney’s whole memoir? No worries - the Daily Beast has the highlights!
Cultural cohesion…through hot dogs?
A reflection on Labor Day: end of summer, workers’ movements, and cleaning the house.
Image Thanks to the BBC!
Minnesota’s state government shuts down…and not just for the holiday weekend.
Saved by the bell…I mean, by the judge! Kansas judge blocks new abortion clinic regulations.
Terminating the Terminator: Maria Shriver files for divorce.
It’s alive!!! The Oxford Comma, that is.
Watch out, New Jersey! You’ve got a baboon on the loose!
Mysterious Pro-Bush Billboard in Minnesota. (Minnesota Public Radio)
Check out This sign, brashly emblazoned with the smirking face of our former President. It looms over I-35, near the somewhat confusingly named town of Wyoming, Minnesota.
Originally, the general consensus (on the net) was that the photo was, well, a little unreal. There was no such billboard… the picture was a less-than-clever Photoshoped rendition.
Not so! declares Bob Collins of Minnesota Public Radio: “It was late at night and I wasn’t sure I’d seen the billboard correctly as I whizzed past it on I-35 in Wyoming last week on the way back from Wrenshall. But an e-mailer confirms I saw what I thought I saw.”
Mr. Collins is just as puzzled as the rest of us as to who paid to have the sign placed.
“Wish I could take credit for it,” says Sheldon Anderson, Mayor of Wyoming. A representative from an anti-Democrat group claims he gets “…calls every day asking if it was me.”
Continuing, he claims: “The person who I thought (erected the sign) did not put up the billboard. He has been contacted about keeping it up if the current owner takes it down.”
Would you claim that you wish that you had funded this monstrosity? Or maybe this is no monstrosity at all?
