Must see TV: We're listening to the Ag committee hearings on regulating credit swaps while putting together our daily digest. Now that the canned statements are given, the witnesses and committee members are conducting a lively debate over the issues. We'll be reviewing the transcripts' this is feisty stuff.
Elsewhere, in a letter to the editor of the Pipestone Star, her son-in-law tells of one real Rosie the Riveter's response to the inauguration of the 44th President. His Rosie wasn't the model for the icon, but she certainly embodies the spirit of the women who worked in the nation's defense industry in WWII.
The Strib and other venues are reporting Daschle withdraws as nominee for HHS secretary We're happy he came to his senses.
In the First, the Dodge County Independent proclaims America needs wind energy, Nature Energies responds! and Triple Creek Wind Farm coming to rural Kasson. Finance and Commerce reports Minnesota wind power development stalled due to a logjam of wind projects, "a power-transmission system in need of repairs and a shortage of adequately financed wind farms." North American Windpower says US, China Lead Global Wind Installation.
The Mankato Free Press editorial board writes against coal and for wind and other renewables in Big Stone II the wrong plan at the wrong time.
There's an update on B.J. Sprenger, the Sleepy Eye National Guard soldier who was badly burned in Iraq, in the New Ulm Journal. The article notes organizations that help service members and their families. We'd like to see members of congress donating their frequent flyer miles (earned on the taxpayers' dime) to the families of hospitalized military personnel, rather than taking the upgrades to fly first class. Private citizens should consider donating their miles, too.
Former Congressman Tim Penny, is crtical of the stimulus bill in his column in the Waseca County News, Community Perspective: Business as usual (again)?.
And now, an inspiring dive by America's top soldier, Fairmont-area native and WSU student Sgt. David Obray and the Golden Knights:
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