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Articles Written by: PATRICK MCILHERAN
covered or even offered will be minutely defined by more than 100 new panels, boards, commissions and programs. You will get the coverage and care Washington decides you should.
The health care scheme that squeaked through the House of Representatives ...
From PATRICK MCILHERAN,
TwinCities.com,
18 Nov 2009
but not happening. Kids need contraception, they say, and many districts are keeping them ignorant.
The new rules for sex education that have wriggled halfway through the Legislature make a point of saying how fact-based the lessons should be. ...
From PATRICK MCILHERAN,
TwinCities.com,
9 Nov 2009
about the rest of us: That Americans, especially conservatives, are always on the edge of violence, that conservatives especially have nothing about which they can legitimately protest. "There are no victims on the right: That's their worldview," ...
From PATRICK MCILHERAN,
TwinCities.com,
25 Sep 2009
disavowal of the idea in Senate hearings drew outright scorn from some liberal legal scholars.
Sonia Sotomayor, all concede, will be confirmed. Since Democrats hold an unassailable majority in the Senate, the appointee of a popular Democratic president ...
From PATRICK MCILHERAN,
TwinCities.com,
20 Jul 2009
need another stimulus. If this one won't kick in for another year or two, how do you know whether it was enough — or whether it worked at all? Calls for more are not a serious policy prescription. They're a profession of faith in the curative powers of ...
From PATRICK MCILHERAN,
TwinCities.com,
15 Jul 2009
Spanish Speaking — it's "not about letting people just come in," he said sensibly. Maybe we don't need more, he suggested, just a different way of allocating visas. He feels we may be too easy on, say, engineers from India and not open enough for ...
From PATRICK MCILHERAN,
TwinCities.com,
23 May 2009
asks the feds to call a union election. Workers decide by secret ballot after about six weeks of campaigning whether they want the union.
Rian Wathen, who used to organize in Indiana for the United Food and Commercial Workers union, lets on something ...
From PATRICK MCILHERAN,
TwinCities.com,
18 May 2009
with no such angst. Similar tunnels are planned or being built in Shanghai, Sydney, Madrid and elsewhere.
One count against freeways, say urban planners, is that they concentrate traffic. Block them with a crash, and you're inescapably jammed. A good ...
From PATRICK MCILHERAN,
TwinCities.com,
15 May 2009
out of Rhinelander at 2 a.m.
Leave aside the fact that some computer in Illinois knows my minivan drove past Waukegan at exactly 9:38 p.m. March 19. I'll surrender that bit of privacy in exchange for the convenience of using an I-Pass rather than coins. ...
From PATRICK MCILHERAN,
TwinCities.com,
7 Apr 2009
constant light bulb," he says.
Anastasios Tsonis is not a lunatic, and no serious person says he is.
He is a scientist, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee whose specialty is climate. He and a colleague say they've figured out why ...
From PATRICK MCILHERAN,
TwinCities.com,
2 Apr 2009
