MinnPost: The MN Department Health says these are chemicals we do NOT need want in children or pregnant women (or, frankly, your own body). But they’re in every-day things.
Strib: No metro casino? And budget reality sets in for the governor.
City Pages: No, not THAT Charles Schulz. But imagine Lucy also dispensing strong antipsychotic meds along with her psychiatric help.
South 12th: Andy intends to make book-buying a rigorous task (or an adventure) in 2012. And to become an in-store fixture even sooner.
February 2, 2011 at 7:04 am
Inre: South 12th: What’s with the store only being accessible by boat?
February 2, 2011 at 7:20 am
In the spirit of the “Strib comment of the day,” we now know who to blame for unrest in the Arab world: ethanol and Obama. I can’t believe they left out the smoking ban.
February 2, 2011 at 7:28 am
One should almost expect a list of obscure but potentially lethal chemicals to come out every few years or so. So some companies can develop detectors that we’re then forced to buy.
February 2, 2011 at 8:40 am
Not going to read that list of chemicals. I’ll just wait until the more freakish ones filter their way down to me.
February 2, 2011 at 9:11 am
A bookstore? On a sandbar? Only accessable by boat? Open for one weekend only? Now that’s money well spent!
February 2, 2011 at 9:17 am
i don’t think our governor has the intestinal fortitude for the job. i’ll be surprised if he finishes his term.
February 2, 2011 at 9:19 am
Nothing too unexpected on the list of chemicals, Lead, Cadmium, BPA. I don’t think anything on here wasn’t already regulated. It is nice to see that at least the state can still enact some sort of environmental exposure rules to chemicals. The federal EPA as well as most environmental regulations will likely see attempts to massive gut them.
February 2, 2011 at 9:19 am
Thanks, A.C. I thought of saying something else, but discretion is the better part of valor.
February 2, 2011 at 9:20 am
@cubbie, we didn’t elect Sarah Palin for christ sake.
February 2, 2011 at 9:27 am
huh?
February 2, 2011 at 9:34 am
oh, because she resigned. she quit because she sees herself as bigger than the governor of alaska. dayton is too meek for the daily rigors of the office. doesn’t make him a bad guy.
February 2, 2011 at 9:50 am
I wouldn’t be too quick to write off Gov. Dayton just yet, cubbie. Let’s wait until the dust settles from this session, and then judge his ability to lead the state.
February 2, 2011 at 10:38 am
uhm, Palin quit because she couldn’t take the heat from the investigations into her lousy ethics.
February 2, 2011 at 11:25 am
i’m judging him from his entire body of work, justbob, not just the short time he’s held this office. fragile.
February 2, 2011 at 11:28 am
nah, she could take the heat. (does she seem like the wilting type to you?) just wasn’t worth the time, money, and effort when she had her sights set on other things.
February 2, 2011 at 11:32 am
Cubbie, it seems you are basing your judgement of Gov Dayton on one incident that the right wing blogosphere blew up into a huge story. You seem to be the epitome representation of the know nothings. All opinion no information.
February 2, 2011 at 12:37 pm
I take a different attitude toward Dayton, cubbie. Whatever his record may have been in the Senate, that’s not his job now. We, the people of Minnesota, have elected the guy as our Governor. I’m willing to give him a chance.
February 2, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Yeah, he deserved a month without criticism….
February 2, 2011 at 2:17 pm
i’m judging him from his entire body of work, justbob, not just the short time he’s held this office. fragile.
Yeah, dammit. We need a strong-armed governor to slap some sense into those revisionist legislators. Make those trains run on time. And put a chicken in every pot. Now! [/sarcasm]
February 2, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Chicken is good.
February 2, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Re: chemicals in stuff and us. It’s not just BPA, etc. about which we should concern ourselves. Farm runoff is becoming a big problem in Minnesota. (“Unless farm runoff is vastly reduced — and soon — environmentalists say the state may never reclaim its heritage as the land of sky-blue waters.” So we’ll wind up with something like this?)
February 2, 2011 at 4:12 pm
I don’t think Minnesota ever had that heritage. That was a beer slogan. That story seems conflicted:
“Environmentalists say Minnesota’s water is much cleaner than it was decades ago, thanks to the 1972 federal Clean Water Act, better farm practices and more recent state laws.”
February 2, 2011 at 4:29 pm
@Rat: Sure, it’s better than it was before legislation forced change but some of these things can become quickly undone if we instead become complacent. Also, I’m irritated at the number of lake vacation residents who still think their cabin lawns need that manicured, suburban look, and who don’t even consider the impact that the fertilizer runoff will have on weed growth in our lakes. Plus, there are a far greater number of “factory farms” in the state now than there were in the ’70s or ’80s. Just ask an Iowan how much fun some of those are.
February 2, 2011 at 4:35 pm
@Rat: And it was a song before it became a beer slogan. Also, the state might disagree because it considers “sky blue water” to be an adequate translation of the state’s name origin: Minisota (“water that reflects the sky”).
February 2, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Re: # of Factory farms in Minnesota.
February 4, 2011 at 9:18 am
Senator Franken connects the dots between Egypt and ethanol in an entirely different way than the Strib LTE.