The editors of the Owatonna People's Press have harsh words for Governor Pawlenty's cuts to local government aid. They lay out their case in LGA loss--the Stamp Act of 2008:
As the editors say, so much for Sam's Club Republicanism. Go read the whole thing at the OPP.
Over at the Mankato Free Press, the editorial board writes The Bill of Rights worth celebration:
It's mornings like this that we're glad we paid attention in our civics and history classes in the St. Peter Public Schools. Unfortunately, not enough Americans have, writes editor Kris Langland at the Mountain Lake Observer/Butterfield Advocate in Flunking is nation's failure. Read her column, then head over to take the ISI's quiz. Thanks to some gifted teachers in high school and college, we did very well--without asking Mr. Google's help.
Image: The Pennsylvania Journal sassed back to the Crown with this cartoon in 1765, while OPP editors keep up the tradition hundred of years later by evoking the Stamp Act with regard to Pawlenty's LGA cuts. Thank the First Congress for addressing those rights that the constitutional convention could not secure and the states for ratifying them.
Not even close. In no case is LGA a tax that was imposed without representation. It is just a sad reality that our representation caved in to the Governor’s demand to a revised formula that caps taxation at the local level. (Republicans used to be for more local control, remember?)
The editors of the Owatonna People’s Press would better serve their readers by understanding an issue before commenting on it. I wonder how they scored on the ISI quiz?
A much better review of the topic can be found here…
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/23/lgasurprise/
Posted by: George Hanson | December 15, 2008 at 03:32 PM