Tag Archives: Salt Lake City

One wonders what the situation in Michigan might be like today if Rick Snyder had governed like Minnesota’s Mark Dayton

By Mark | March 20, 2016

Along with a lot of my social media friends, I spent a good deal of this evening reading and thinking about an article in The Atlantic titled The Miracle of Minneapolis, about how the 14th-largest metropolitan area in the United States had accomplished what so few American cities have been able to… which is to […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged affordable housing, Mark Dayton, minimum wage, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Rick Snyder, social mobility, threats to the middle class, unemployment | 30 Comments

Ok, so here’s my obligatory post on the hipster grifter

By Mark | April 19, 2009

Every once in a while, something wonderful happens that brings us together as a nation. A hot, blonde teacher beds a burnout eighth-grader in front of his buddies. A bug-eyed bride-to-be lies about being abducted in order to escape her impending wedding to some poor schlub. Or, a certifiably insane narcissist convinces a shady fertility […]