Archives for January 2016

Last week, the Star Tribune featured an insightful article that provided details about the state’s “bike lobby” and their plans to ask the 2016 Minnesota legislature to decrease speed limits on city streets. Current speed limits in Minneapolis and St. Paul on urban streets is 30-miles per hour. This 30-miles per hour speed limit was cited by the League of American Bicyclists, according to the …

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[from a commentary in the January 8, 2016 Star Tribune]  If I’ve learned anything from the three generations of public school teachers in my family, it’s that they have strong opinions about education policy — and that they entered teaching to promote student, not personal, enrichment. While teachers might disagree about education policy and about policymakers telling them how to do their …

[Read more...] about Let public school teachers decide if they want representation, or not