- So a vote is expected sometime today or tonight on the cigarette feex (fee-tax...get it?). Without its approval, a second shutdown is quite probable. Still no one is saying for sure whether it will pass. Republicans are expressing concerns that it's indeed a tax and not a fee (for real?); DFLers are worried that it would force the lowest wage-earners to shoulder the burden of our budgetary problems (legitimate); and the Strib says it will invite tobacco smugglers (who support terrorism, of course) into the state. I sure hope everyone is using soap during all this hand-wrining at the Capitol because there's some dirty politics going on. And if we go into Minnesota Meltdown 2005 Part Deux, it's going to be even dirtier.
- Speaking of dirty politics, state DFL party chair, Brian Melendez is going after Randy Kelly in a big way, and hoping beyond hope that mentioning George W. Bush as much as possible wins the race for Chris Coleman. The City Hall Scoop has an e-mail from Melendez to his "DFL friend[s]" that mentions Bush no less than five times; and claims he wants to take the capitol city back. That's all well and good, but what's the problem when both Minneapolis and St. Paul have DFL mayors? Neither of them were endorsed, that's the problem.
- Somebody give Soucheray a calculator and teach him how to use it.
- We all know Block E is classy. I mean, you've got the Hard Rock Cafe, the Crown Theater, Gameworks, the throngs of heavy-petting teenyboppers rubbing against each other in corners. So what could possibly make Block E classier? Hooters.
- The NHL and the players union has allegedly made an agreement. What's the NHL, again?
- From the AP: "Car with Confederate Flag Kicked, Stoned in Rochester." Has Howard Dean been hanging around southern Minnesota lately? No? Oh.
- Since no PePpers responded to the call for a Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson concert review, here's one from the PiPress. It's unsurprisingly saccharine.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
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So, Soucheray is really smart, right? Because he can end his article with some sort of crazy run-on sentence that accomplishes nothing?
I don't know if there's a coherent argument in his article. Let's try to make a syllogism:
State education spending is out of control and nobody knows what people are spending the money on.
We spend money allowing high school students to take college classes.
Gifted classes also get money.
No, I'm probably not cutting little Joey enough slack, but he doesn't really deserve it. First of all, he seems to be conflating "gifted" classes with college classes. And this conflation occurs because he believes that high school kids should choose gifted classes over free college. Wait, but didn't we stop having gifted classes in, like, 6th grade? That's what gifted classes are, aren't they? The little room where you write short stories and let your intelligence ooze with your peers? Honors classes in high school aren't in addition to regular classes, but in place of them. Maybe I'm just not understanding him.
Secondly, Minnesota's Post-Secondary Enrollment Option is one of the best parts of its educational system. It allows intelligent students to get a head start on college. It's not about being prepared, as Soucheray says, it's about matriculating at University as a sophomore rather than as a freshman. In addition, it allows the college student to get into the workforce sooner and start contributing tax dollars into the general coffers with their sweet, 26K/year job at CH Robinson Worldwide Marketing.
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