Esme’s Blog
Esme’s Blog: Helping South High
In the aftermath of Thursday’s Minneapolis South High brawl involving more than 200 students, everyone from the police, to students, to school administrators agree it could have been so much worse.
Esme’s Blog: Seduction Via The Web
The real lesson of Minneapolis police officer Bradley Schnickel’s arrest on six felony counts of luring and having sexual encounters with young girls is that social networking makes this predatory behavior so much easier than it used to be.
Esme’s Blog: Who’s Watching State Databases?
The news that DNR manager John Hunt made 19,000 queries of private driver’s license information is not only creepy, it raises serious concerns about how well the state is keeping our private information private.
Esme’s Blog: The Real Problem With Washburn HS Doll Incident
On Jan. 11, four students at Washburn HS in South Minneapolis hung a dark-skinned doll from a rope in a school stairwell, took pictures of it and posted the images to social networking websites.
Esme’s Blog: Gun Sales Soar
As lawmakers in Washington discuss how to keep guns out of the hands of disturbed individuals, gun sales are setting records the New York Times reports.
Esme’s Blog: Questions Continue In Decker Case
Now that Eric Thomes, who authorities describe as a “person of interest” in the murder of officer Tom Decker, is dead we may never know exactly what happened Nov. 29 outside Winners Bar in Cold Spring, Minn. For officer Decker’s family, his friends, and for the people of Cold Spring — there will likely always be questions.
Esme’s Blog: The Gun Control Debate
For some, including the president, it is almost a whisper. President Obama is saying, simply, that it is “time to take meaningful action” to prevent gun violence.
Esme’s Blog: My Todd Hoffner Moment
Several years ago on vacation in New York I stopped to pick up some prints at a photo store.
Esme’s Blog: Raising Taxes Without Raising Taxes
It is a nod to the complexity of our tax code that one solution to preventing the nation from diving off the fiscal cliff would be to raise taxes without raising taxes.
Esme’s Blog: Franken Turkey Day Recipes
In my inbox this morning I found this email from Al Franken for Senate 2014 campaign. Note the Senator’s use of Mahnomen wild rice. Will other wild rice producers ask for a recipe recount?
Esme’s Blog: A General Problem
The Paula Broadwell/David Petraeus/Jill Kelley scandal is embarrassing enough.
Esme’s Blog: How The Amendments Hurt Republicans
The Republican leaders in the Minnesota Legislature believed putting the Voter ID and Marriage Amendments on the ballot would increase voter turnout, help Republican candidates statewide, and boost their majorities in both houses of the legislature.
Esme’s Blog: Romney’s Minnesota Mistake?
For weeks, Humphrey Institute Professor Larry Jacobs has said Mitt Romney was making a huge mistake by not putting resources into Minnesota.
Esme’s Blog: Kurt Bills Ad Slammed
During last night’s Vikings game, Kurt Bills ran an ad claiming Amy Klobuchar covered up for Tom Petters and failed to prosecute him while she was Hennepin County Attorney.
Esme’s Blog: Left Out Of The Electoral College Battle
President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney are focusing all of their time on a handful of states, because the reality of this election is that the winner of the presidency may well lose the popular vote.
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