Nokomis
From where I stand
BY POLLY MANN Can King Coal come clean? This probably won’t receive too much attention, but it should: Canada has recently produced the world’s first commercial coal-fired power plant equipped with carbon capture and storage technology. The Boundary Dam plant in Saskatchewan promises to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 90%. …
A pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow?
Vikings stadium will kill birds
BY WENDY HAAN, MINNESTOA CITIZENS FOR THE PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY BIRDS Bird advocates went before the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority Friday morning, Oct. 10, urging the panel to order bird-safe, energy efficient glass for the new Vikings stadium under construction on a major migratory bird corridor. Experts agree the 200,000…
Holiday Shows 2014 – Art-y or Party? Or just kinda weird?
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE One of the great features of Twin Cities life is the incredible selection of entertainment and celebration options around the winter holidays. Mindful that there are loads of newspaper and online guides to the holidays out there, we are going to focus—not exclusively, but largely—on the…
A sample ballot for November 4th
Hennepin County’s expensive burner fetish
BY LARA NORKUS-CRAMPTON Energy and environmental consultant Alan Muller recently submitted a letter to Hennepin County, invoking the Data Practices Act, to ask for information on significant financial expenditures and reinvestments totaling hundreds of millions of dollars to promote and sustain our 26-year-old Garbage Burner, HERC. http://www.alanmuller.com/?p=382 His letter was…
Powderhorn Birdwatch “Nature matters”
Notes from Polly
The name of the eminent physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who died on Oct. 24, would probably not be remembered by many people born after 1954. Oppenheimer was tried and denied a clearance by the Atomic Energy Commission after 19 days of secret hearings. Now, with recent reclassification of material from…
Powderhorn poet laureate
Former anti-war activist now pro-war?
Student protests continue in Mexico
BY JOHNNY HAZARD Students at most public universities in the Mexico City metropolitan area went on strike last week as part of the continuing protests against the massacre and forced disappearance of five and 43 (respectively) students of the teacher preparation school in Ayotzinapa, Tixtla, Guerrero. The “disappeared” students were…
Hope at the end of the Rainbow?
BY ED FELIEN “When elephants fight, the grass suffers.” Swahili proverb The elephants have struggled. Rainbow and Cub fought for years over market share at Lake and Minnehaha, but they remained competitive, and each had their share of loyal customers. Then Target decided to open a fresh food section in…
Can King Coal come clean?
A REPORT FROM POLLY MANN It probably won’t receive too much attention but it should: Canada has recently produced the world’s first commercial coal-fired power plant equipped with carbon capture and storage technology. The Boundary Dam plant in Saskatchewan promises to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 90%. The state-owned electricity…
