BUDGE OPINION
Budgeteer Letters to the Editor (March 14, 2010)
Letters to the editorMarch 15, 2010
S.E. Livingston: I dig my land line
Home has its own personality and essence and deserves its own phone line. Eradicating my home phone is akin to saying there is no central point of community and life.March 11, 2010
Virgil Swing: Don’t outlaw billboards until Favre says ‘yes’
Minnesota passed a state law against texting while driving in 2008, but has not yet acted on distractions caused by billboards that blink new messages every few seconds.March 11, 2010
Ralph Doty: Minnesota’s primary elections moving to summer 
A potpourri of random thoughts about Minnesota's primary elections moving to summer, KDAL using robot DJs, "Duluth Days" at the Capitol and Delta moving in on United's space.
March 05, 2010
Budgeteer Letters to the Editor - March 7, 2010 
Find out what's on our readers' minds this week.
March 04, 2010
Eddy Gilmore: Taking a ‘Weber walk’ can be a religious experience 
There is a nature-deficit disorder among our children. The majority of kids and adults alike have been ripped from the natural world by powerful forces and are trapped in isolation on an island awash in technological gadgets and gizmos.
March 04, 2010
Our View (Budgeteer): Thumbs up 
It's all thumbs up from the Budgeteer this week in this brief editorial.
February 26, 2010
Budgeteer Letter to the Editor (Feb. 26, 2010) 
Because interest rates are extremely low at the present time, this is the best possible time to enact a large state bonding bill.
February 26, 2010
Dennis Fink: Government reform is necessary 
With nearly every government, in every state and our federal government struggling, we really have little choice but to consider changing the way we do business.
By Dennis Fink , February 25, 2010
Virgil Swing: Government-tribal issues have no simple fix 
The way use of natural resources has been apportioned in Minnesota can be an example of how possibly conflicting rights can be worked out equitably.
February 25, 2010
Pete Langr: If these were your kids you would never allow this 
It is time we escaped the mindset of one local online pundit who believes that some of our minority kids are disposable.
February 25, 2010
Ralph Doty: Pawlenty’s ‘tax cuts’ will only hurt local government 
Pawlenty must think we’re stupid. The state budget and state taxes have already been slashed so many times that the “Minnesota Miracle” of the 1970s is only a distant memory.
February 18, 2010
Linda Grover: Exhibit at UMD sparks thoughts of the belt with blue beads 
The story of Sacagawea’s life after the expedition has only two certainties.
February 18, 2010
Budgeteer Letters to the Editor - Feb. 21, 2010 
Find out what's on our readers' minds this week.
February 18, 2010
Our View: A better plan for the jail 
City Councilor Dan Hartman is working hard at what may be the most feasible plan yet for the old county jail.
February 12, 2010
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