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Frankly, I'd like something other than just looking up studies to try to prove a point. I can cite too.

#1: from PBS.
#2. from kotaku
#3 from Harvard .

How many more do you want?

PTSD being treated by videogames is possible, but that has no correlation to violence.

Oh wait, I'm not done. Here's a summation by techdirt of both your studies and my studies linked .

A whole lot of questions are not precisely answered with all this as it's not only a new area of research but the answers are not straight up conclusive. There is a lack of causation between the correlation, if you will. Reading the last paragraph of the techdirt article shows exactly why I question this (blockquoted below).

Of course, nowhere does it explain why, if the study's findings are true, youth violence has decreased significantly over the same period of time that violent video games have become much more popular. If violent video games really made people consistently more violent, you'd expect to see that increase. And, if that number is not increasing, then you have to wonder if any reported increase in youth violence is even at a level that matters. If there's a marginal increase in aggressive behavior that doesn't lead to any increase in illegal behavior, is that really an issue? Also, when compared with another recent study that shows it's the small percentage of kids who don't play video games who are more likely to actually get in trouble, it makes you wonder if there are some completely independent factors at work here, rather than any direct correlation between violent video games and real world violence.

Is this another slashvertisement to get the story out there and advertise the book again? I already listened to the Science Friday segment a month ago. From the linked article: [quote]August 28, 2009[/quote]

Interestingly enough, though, it's also showing up on today's Spendid Table: http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/

Here is one interview with Professor Tony Sanders from George Mason University. There were more like this throughout the week. The assertion that everyone agreed this money wasn't coming back was made by Kai Ryssdal at the end of the week. Here's a couple snippets from the above interview.
 
  SANDERS: Car companies did get a significant chunk, and the answer is no. I would not look for any money to be coming back from the car companies to repay taxpayers.
 
This is in the middle of asking about AIG and when/if they will every pay back. If the market lies flat or keep on its downward trend, we could see this being almost like a perpetuity. It just won't be repaid.
 
I wish I could track down the last interview I listened to where they guy being interviewed basically said we are hurting ourselves by pretending we'll get this money back. Unfortunately I'm not finding all the marketplace interviews in transcript form and listening through the archived broadcasts is very slow and not searchable. You can quibble over some sliver of it being paid back meaning that 'none' isn't true but it doesn't change the basic facts of the situation.

Um....WRONG AGAIN! The term "Climate Change" was pretty much invented by Republicans. In fact, in 2002, a memo encouraged Republicans to use the term "climate change" because it "sounds a more controllable and less emotional challenge," whereas global warming sounds like it has "catastrophic connotations." http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/11/09/terms/

Just a correction, Minnesota does have a primary seat belt law now. It went into effect on June 9th, so now the police can pull you over for not wearing one. Also as noted by the MPR article the fine is $25 so it sounds like a nice way to close the budget gap for local cities.

Nearly every location on this list is full of distractions. True, I can multitask while the TV is showing something I've seen or do not care about. Unfortunately, if it's a movie out of my Netflix queue, it greatly hampers my progress.

Some of these places are just plain uncomfortable like public transportation or an airplane.

Your bed?! The place where you sleep? Seriously? Granted there aren't a lot of places to suggest, this list blows. I'd be swimming if I were near a pool.

For me the biggest factor is nice studio quality headphones covering my ears producing low volume music. Maybe it's my favorite non-talk radio station (The Current or Radio K) or maybe it's some classical/jazz/rock album I just picked up. My hands and eyes are busy only with the task at hand. An internet connection will help break the monotony for short periods of time and keep me at full operating power. After that, I like to have hot tea, coffee or water at hand to drink and maybe some raw almonds to munch on. A relaxed position and a bathroom within short distance makes for the optimum coding environment.

Assuming I have no questions about requirements or technology, this is the state I usually like to be in.

Hulu is funded through advertising. On the radio a few weeks ago, I think on NPR's marketplace, http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/12/hulu/ they had an interview with Eric Feng, founder of Hulu. In it, he said that advertising is where the money is and that it is likely that the amount of commercials/ads shown per episode is likely to increase. It was either him or someone else on the program (I can't listen to the program right now) that said Hulu is likely to follow the same path as cable did - starting with very little commercials, and using that as a selling point, and then eventually transitioning to 7+ minutes of advertising per half hour as Hulu became indispensable.

I like Hulu, but I do not believe they operate under some "do our work for the benefit of the users" mantra. At some point they will do the analysis on ads vs. user dissatisfaction and will settle at a balance point.

Really, I haven't heard a decent mainstream track in the past year.

The key is that you have to get out of the mainstream.

I like electronic music, here's where I've been finding some:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast.aspx
http://www.philipsherburne.com/

Also 89.3 the current (MPR's rock station) may not always be good, but it isn't corporate.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/
You can stream it.

Then when I wanna buy some I usually have to go through Amazon, as most physical stores around me are filled w/ top40 pap. That being said I purchase a fair amount of music these days.

Anyone else wanna give a shout out to their own little path through the Top40 wastelands?

Not speaking for you, but either some of those people didn't have decent scanners or just ignored the warning signs of said scanner and went ahead with their pockmarked ballots anyway.

And personally, when I voted in CA, we didn't have a scanner handy so I was unable to verify that my ballot was sans error.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/2008/campaign/results/mn/recount/ballots/

A collection of many people who can't follow the simple instruction of "Fill in the bubble."

Just to answer this quickly, and then if we'd like to continue, let's take it to email. I'm at scott{dot]kent[at]gmail[dot}com.

I truly appreciate your comments on creation, and I'm sure that a supreme being certainly could create a world in seven days if he wanted, but I'd encourage you to read Genesis from beginning to end. In it, you will find two, completely separate, creation stories. I could summarize them, but it's better if you see them first hand. The reason there are two stories is because at the original council, there were four stories, called the J P E and D creation stories. I don't remember what the letters stood for, but one was judges, one priests and two others. They settled on two of them that made it into Genesis. When you read the two, you can probably tell which one was written by the priests.

So I'd love to keep talking about this, but I'd suggest you read a couple of things and listen to a pretty interesting program. Check out the Council of Nicea, the first conference Constantine set up, in order to refine the consolidate the beliefs of the church. There have been several conferences since. Also, most churches have their own constitutions or Disciplines that define their government and beliefs. In addition, consider http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/2009/darwin/. An interesting program discussing Christianity and evolution. For instance, it wasn't until recently, around the time of Martin Luther, that people began to interpret the Old Testament as literal.

A couple of important points though, consider when / how the Bible was written. Give it some time. Not about the belief that God is all-powerful, but that the Bible is a human-created text. Look up how the Bible was created and how churches have come to define their beliefs within the context of this man-made creation. Look up the verses I referenced before, and those are just a few of the verses in scripture that contradict some of the found tenants of the Christian faith. It's interesting and will not shake your faith. It will enrich it. But take your time, be willing to explore, and see what you think. Just look at the historical evidence of how the Bible came to be. It's fascinating, but very human. Also, keep in mind what I said about parables. If Jesus used them, why not the Father?

There are numerous cases going through the federal court system seeking to strike down enforcement through speed cam as a violation of due process law, since the owner is given a fine without proof he was actually driving the vehicle. I think this is why all the articles I've read state that the authorities controlling these things don't put it onto your MVR -- they know people will stomp them flat in court and people are less likely to challenge them if it's "just a 50 to 100 dollar fine, not worth the hassle, i'll just pay it".

There is an earlier ruling from 2007 which struck down such cams, but google is dominated by a recent decision (the 9th) in a federal district court in ohio that stated the things were constitutional.

Personally, I think it's a corrupt judge, as the lack of due process is glaring.

The parties involved plan to go with this all the way to the supreme court if necessary, and my guess is it will, in the end, get struck down as unconstitutional. This is not some "politicized" issue, it's a clear cut case of state abuse.

For those who are infuriated by the idea of speed cams, I know for a fact Georgia has made it illegal for municipalities to install them.

Neither major party candidate has mentioned addressing the crushing national debt or deficit spending.

I found this game really informative, and disturbing.

It could probably be written better, but the concept is great.

I agree. I tried it out. I almost want to make it a mandatory thing for all voters to play at least once before voting. Not that it would necessarily change your candidate preference, but because it would make you really look at the kind of trade-offs that have to be made rather than just listening to candidates talking about how they're going to do this, that and the other, while giving very little information about what, specifically, they would cut or fund, and how that would affect the overall bottom line.

Neither major party candidate has mentioned addressing the crushing national debt or deficit spending.

I found this game really informative, and disturbing.

It could probably be written better, but the concept is great.

Commentary from Marketplace NPR

SuperBanana said:

It'd be really refreshing to see scientists develop a bit of altruism. It's the ultimate Open Source, and they'd be guaranteed decades, if not centuries, of good will and fame. That's worth a lot more than a few *possible* royalty checks.

Heard this on NPR on my way home from work yesterday:

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/07/31/solar_storage/

"MIT has patented the process and is forming a company to develop the technology for market. Nocera also published his discovery in today's issue of the journal "Science."

        Nocera: I open-sourced it right away. Because it's easy to do, you'll have the entire community across the world begin working on this."

Sounds like he did "open-source" it, or so he says. But where is the "source" ? Published in "Science" ? Can someone who subscribes to that magazine take a look? Does it seem like it contains all the details necessary to reproduce the technology?

Especially since Mugabe and his cronies and accountants have in the West as many friends as they have in Asia and Europe, all helping him launder, recycle, redirect and so on untold sums of cash and other instruments. The US and UK found SOME monies, but they cannot and will not find it all.

hear "Looting", at:

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/07/15/zimbabwe_loot/

So, Zimbabwe dollars are probably converted to LOTs. Seems to me, Zimbabwe dollars are worth a LOT, if lots of people take risks to convert and hide them... But the, i'm not an economist or anything near it...

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/apheadline_detail.php?story_id=D918P08G2&group=ap.online.headlines.business

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-thu_anheuser-busch-inbevjun12,0,2035555.story

Dollar menus actually cost the franchisee money, this is why they're starting to charge more or remove items from the menu

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/04/mcds_dollar_menu/

Elvis, wherever he is, is in a panic.

If you mean the French torching speed cameras, Marketplace has an article on them.

Call themselves the "Armed Revolutionary Nationalist Faction", although it appears there's a number of people out destroying cameras all on their own.

Just yesterday Marketplace conducted an interview with the Craigslist CEO. You can listen to the interview on their site (it's the "listen to story" link, not the "listen to show" link). It's a pretty interesting interview -- one of the questions was "why aren't you running advertising?" And the answer was "because it's annoying and we think annoying our customers is stupid." When I heard him say that, I sat back and thought "Yeah! Nice to hear a CEO who really gets it."

They're a profitable company; but not madly, hugely, enormously profitable the way they could be. I like that. Capitalism offers powerful incentives to participate in the economy, which is generally good; but it also has a tendency to encourage empire-building and delusions of grandeur. So it's nice to see a company once in a while which isn't hell bent on world domination.

I wish their pages were a bit better designed, though. I appreciate the focus on navigation, but would it kill them to put borders around some of the boxes full of lists, to visually group them? And they could make some improvements for screen reader users, especially adding headings so that blind visitors could have their screen readers jump to the headings in the page rather than having to wade through everything that comes before the part they're interested in.

The memoir "Love and Consequences," about a woman's life in South Central Los Angeles, has been uncovered as a hoax. It's the latest of several fictionalized memoirs that have slipped through the publishing industry.[...] So why don't publishers just hire fact-checkers? Publisher James Atlas says fact-checkers have never been part of the $24 billion book business. The job is just too big and expensive, and the industry is shrinking. That leaves fact-checking to editors. Problem is, publishing companies often pressure them to churn out a certain number of books every year.

I live in the Twin Cities and we are fortunate to have some of the best public radio in the world (IMNSHO). 89.3 The Current is really the only radio station I listen to these days. They have both podcasts and live streaming radio. During pledge drives I hear lots of praise from the DJs thanking out-of-state listeners for their support. Check it out.

You can listen to an audio interview with the psychology professor who helped develop this program: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/08/31/midmorning2/ (Real audio format)

I am surprised the Public radio model has not caught on more widespread throughout the country. Here in Minnesota, Minnesota Public Radio has a great contemporary music station that doesn't have any commercials and plays a huge variety of music. They play a lot of local music, and have a lot of in studio performances. It really is a music lovers station and plays a really great mix. I don't by any means like every song that they play, but music is always better than listening to a commercial and it keeps you on your toes too. Sure, the listeners need to support their station with contributions but its all about supporting the community and the artists that you value. There is no shortage of funds at 89.3, it is a strong and supported community. Why nobody else has picked up on the model is really shocking. Minneapolis can't be that much more of a music town that other places in the country. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/

Scarily enough, even "recyclers" may not be doing the right thing here. I've enclosed an interesting link from the NPR series "Consumed" which talks about how
the US sends vast electronic garbage to China, and how some of the materials may be finding their way back here, in a not-so good way.

link

Well, it's kind of a matter of semantics, but some people are of the opinion that the iPhone isn't really a "smartphone", because you can't add 3rd-party apps or it doesn't have a QWERTY keyboard or no "enterprise" email connectivity, etc:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-iphone-is-not-a-smartphone/
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/11/08/smartphones_q/

However, Blackberries are pretty darn popular from what I can tell. I think Treos would be popular too if they weren't so crash-prone.

Ketchup. They're seeing who isn't buying enough.

Ketchup has natural mellowing agents that help to keep you satisfied with our government and able to accept what happens to you.

-- A message from the Ketchup Advisory Board

(This is well documented. See here and here, for example.)

Ketchup. They're seeing who isn't buying enough.

Ketchup has natural mellowing agents that help to keep you satisfied with our government and able to accept what happens to you.

-- A message from the Ketchup Advisory Board

(This is well documented. See here and here, for example.)

Back in the early 20th century, the mob used to run a kind of informal lottery. It was called a "numbers game". There were places (like barbershops) where people could pick a number from 1 to 1000, and if their number came up, they won. The mob typically paid out between 800-to-1 and 600-to-1. This meant that the mob paid out 60-80% (and kept 20-40%) of the money people initially paid. On the other hand, most state lotteries only pay out about 50% of earnings, making them a worse bet than going with the mob.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/underground/1114undergroundpm.html

I'd say that I do about 80% of the time. The last CD I purchased was directly from the artist's website (The Cat Empire). As a bonus, it's not yet available in the US, but I did buy all but 1 of their CDs from their website. I also picked up a few of their other merchandise (A shirt, a deck of cards, and a keychain). Most of the other CDs I buy are from the artists at their concerts. I hear about music mainly through word-of-mouth, but occasionally listen to a local public radio station (The Current). I don't claim to be representative of the masses, but that's how I get music.

And owes the RIAA $222,000. About $9000 a song. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/10/04/downloadingday3/

Fiber is paid for by the telcos, not the gov't so is not a tariffed service. While Verizon MUST lease copper to competitors, it isn't compelled to lease fiber access. Verizon cutting the copper is effectively cutting off any competition that was not a Baby Bell in a past life.

You may want to correct this statement. The government has and does subsidize fiber. The fiber-to-the-home project is funded through the Agriculture Department's Rural Utilities Service (RUS). Adam Golodner, deputy administrator of the RUS says: "We do encourage the development of technology that would bring broad band to the home at reasonable cost to meet the growing demand in rural areas by citizens who recognize perhaps more than citizens in urban areas that telecommunications shrinks time, distance, and space." As a percentage of funding of different broadband technologies as of September 2006 RUS (pdf) has spent "30% of approved and funded projects employed fiber-to-the-home technology, 24% employed DSL, 22% wireless (unlicensed), 19% hybrid fiber-coaxial (cable), 3% wireless (licensed), and 2% broadband over powerlines (BPL)."

"Savvy developer wins federal money to wire homelands"
By Kevin Dayton
Advertiser Capitol Bureau Chief

A local politically connected company is eligible for as much as $400 million in federal loans to weave fiber-optic cable through Hawaiian Home Lands on six islands, even though much of the land is undeveloped and lacks roads, water and electricity.

Well I found a few interviews and articles he did after recent national tragedies, but they do tend to be lost amongst the chatter against Thompson so it is not surprising you missed them. The best bet is to search for "Jack Thompson" + $TRAGEDY, as he seems to be able to find his way to the spotlight after every incident of national suffering to spew his latest theory regarding the cause. Anyway, here's the links for you enjoyment:
VA Tech tragedy
Devin Moore Shootings
Red Lake Shootings

Oh and here is an article by a non gaming web site about the Louisiana Game Bill:
HB 1381

Those who enter the widest window of available hours tend to get the best shifts. Michael works weekends at a Wal-Mart in Florida. He has a blog called "behind the counter". He doesn't use his real name, fearing dismissal. He says at his store, the new scheduling system isn't working well for part-timers like him who hold more than one job, and so have more limited availability

Queue their live stream up and see what good radio should be. My two favorite DJ's on radio are on on weekdays. 3-7pm gives Mary Lucia (She used to host a "regular" show and a great local music show on Rev 105 before Disney purchased it and eventually fired the entire staff) and 7-10 has Mark Wheat (who I first discovered on the University of Minnesota's station and is so incredibly knowledgeable about music). Bonus points for not having commercials--it's a radio station you can just turn on and listen to music.

Somewhere on their site they also have a full listenable archive of in-studio performances, most of which are quite good.

HOTZ: The truth is because our family has T-Mobile. We have a T-Mobile family plan. And if I wanted AT&T, I'd have to pay for it. So, I could either decide to pay for AT&T or just work to unlock the iPhone.

Down with financial entrepreneurs

Sounds like they handled your gas line rupture better than this:

http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/11/explosion.02/index.h tml

Yes, yes I know it isn't all fun and collapsing bridges in Minnesota. Sometimes whe have the above. Seriously though, last October, Buffalo, a large town in Minnesota, had its gas service shut off because of a gas line leak. They shut the gas main off and then went to door to door in the town shutting each of the gas meters off. The necessary gas line work was done. Then, the gas main was turned on again and the house meters were turned on again. This took IIRC three days and 200 gas company employees. See, people can learn from their mistakes. More on it here:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/ 10/13/centerpointbuffalo/

This is false, demonstrably so. The city of Minneapolis' own school choice program illustrates this. As do certan charter schools in high-poverty areas that have massive success. Success and failure of schools for poor people is very dependent on the control that the teacher-union backed politicians. And the Feds ARE involved in local school issues and provide funding for it - more and more every years.

Ah, yes. No doubt funded by the secret Federal Democratic government that's been operating next to the Republican one for years and years. Wait, no, so it's the Federal Republican who've been funding schools more and more? I'm getting really confused as to what the fuck you're even pretending your point to be.

But I like the fact you constantly bring up schools to deflect away infrastructure. Schools are complicated. We do not know how to fix them.

There are plenty of complicated things in the government that are difficult to figure out the correct thing to do, and sometimes trying to help actually makes things worse. I have, at absolutely no point, suggested schools were not these things, although suggesting that their entire problem is too much money is just bone stupid. If you have some magical school suggestion, feel free to mention it where people are actually discussing, you know, schools, and not where they are discussing, you know, bridges.

Bridges, though? They're easy. All we have to do is spend the money on having people inspect and fix them! That's it. Theres no argument, there's no debate. We can either repair infrastruture, or not. If we don't, it will fail...usually in slow slide to unuseablity, but sometimes in a very rapid collapse.

I quite understand why you're deflecting the argument from 'Republicans don't spend enough on required bridge maintenance' to 'Democrats spend too much on schools', but, honestly, you're the only person you've fooled there. Democrats may, indeed, spend too much on certain schools. I have my own suspicious as to what is wrong, but as they are completely irrelevant to bridges, I will not say them.

The chart in the NYTimes areticle you cite is bogus because it doesn't cite real dollars, just a percentage - and it does appear that feds DO fund a large amount of transportation costs.

Why the hell you think I was trying to make the claim the Federal government didn't fund anything to do with transportation costs is beyond me. I didn't say anything in that regard.

And maybe you should read your own article that you apparently googled but did not read. It seems the vetos has nothing to do with bridge maintenance. FTA: That has often meant construction of new, politically popular roads and transit projects rather than the mundane work of maintaining the worn-out ones.

It's you who's not reading the article. They are talking about Federal funds, not the transportation bill that was slashed.

In fact, almost all the article is talking about Federal funding, which I don't give a shit about because, and I repeat, the governor slashed the transportation budget. The entire reason I pointed to that article was the first damn line: In the past two years, Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota twice vetoed legislation to raise the state's gas tax to pay for transportation needs.

To repeat my argument for the brain-damaged: In Minnesota, the governor twice vetoed increasing spending on transportation to where the legislature wanted it, because he had a 'No new tax pledge'. This got so bad that voters passed a constitutional amendment directing all fees and taxes from the sale of new cars to transportation, and they still had shortfalls. Google 'Minnesota gas tax Pawlenty amendment' if you want the full hilarious story about one man's attempt to keep from raising any taxes at all, as the transportation system fell to pieces around him.

Of course,

I have a method of Minnesota infrastructure maintenance that can assure sound bridges. My technique involves billing the Twins owner for the $392 million of government revenue (collected via a sale tax hike) being used to fund the new $522 million baseball stadium. My technique also involves continuing to dash the hopes of Minnesota football fans for a new government funded $0.5 billion football stadium. Instead, let the team owners rely on sports geek revenue to fund their stadiums, and misappropriate the tax revenue into infrastructure.

On the other hand, perhaps it isn't necessary to piss off all the Minnesota sports geeks (read: voters) and instead utilize the $2 billion dollar state surplus to deal with the states bridges. But alas, there are voters to buy with that money.

This is about the priorities of the citizens of a staggeringly wealthy nation being focused on everything but the infrastructure.

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/07/1 0/PM200707102.html

It's easy to find info on the trend in Germany, but here's a link to a radio program I listened to recently.

I'm less aware of Australia's program, but that was announced in 2004 while for Germany "... in 2000, lawmakers committed the country to at least doubling the percentage of renewable energy in the overall supply by 2010."

Basically, Germany subsidizes the industry to a much larger degree and has been for a few years longer.

The largest, most successful car company on the planet? Toyota. The leader on going Green through higher fuel economy and smarter technology? Toyota. Coincidence?

Which city in the rust belt has a trade surplus with China and why? Erie PA. Because GE makes the most fuel efficient locomotives on the planet in Erie and even though the Chinese have lower labor costs and environmental protection standards, the GE locmotives, while costing more to purchase, pay-back the extra cost very rapidly in fuel savings. The greenest tech is the most efficient tech and it wins economically.

So, protecting and subsidizing stupidity might protect one particular set of players in an industry (GM & Ford, for instance) but overall it doesn't do the USA any good.

Green is efficient, so Green is smart business.

There's green in going green -- Friedman

so you don't trust any of them then ?

you might want one of these then....
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/200306 28/commercial.shtml

Toodle-pip
Amias

Having a system that provides adequate health care for all citizens and having a private medical care system are not mutually exclusive. You can have both.

I wish I could find the reference, but I recently heard on PRI's Marketplace that due to Medicare, Medicaid, government subsidies, and other costs, we currently pay more per capita than countries like Canada, which do have universal health care. Thus, our health care costs would be lower if we switched to a universal health care system.

For the record, Marketplace is not a National Public Radio program. Though it is carried on many stations that identify themselves as being an NPR affiliate, Marketplace is actually distributed by American Public Media.

and on top of that the accountants have to be sure they're not infringing on patented tax strategies :-P

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• Roadguy - A funny, intelligent blog about transportation in Minnesota.
• Minnesota Public Radio - Check to see if I want to call into any shows that day.
• Minneapolis E-Democracy Issue Forum - Not a blog or web forum, a mailing list. Mailing lists are way better than web forums. Lots of good local information on events, politics, etc.
• St. Paul E-Democracy Issue Forum - Another mailing list.
• Linux Weekly News - Every Thursday
• Polinaut - When the mood strikes me and/or I want to see if anything I did up at the Minnesota Capitol made the news.
• The Strib - Only for the netlets (letters to the editor posted online only). For everything else it's strictly reading the hardcopy for me. It's too hard on the eyes to read from a screen.