Wisconsin Beat Minnesota in College Football Yesterday, but Minnesota Seems to Have the Political Advantage

Within walking distance of the Minnesota state capitol

Source:  Retiring Guy's postcard collection

 

Right vs. Left in the Midwest.  (The New York Times, 11/23/2013)

Excerpt:  Evidence and common sense should matter more in our overheated political debates. The lesson from the upper Midwest is that rigid anti-tax dogma fails to deliver a convincing optimistic vision that widens economic opportunity and security. The excesses of liberalism may lurk, but Minnesota is building a modern progressivism that plows a hopeful path.