Monthly Archives: February 2012

A lovely little protest in Winona   And here’s a link to the article that ran the next day in the Winona Daily News. Here’s the lede: About 30 people gathered Monday afternoon to block the front entrance to the … Continue reading →

UPDATE: (Summer 2017) Rats.  Back in business.  Roll to the bottom of this post for a description of the Army Corps of Engineers 40-year plan to haul dredge-sand in trucks through our river towns and dump it on prime farmland.  … Continue reading →

A conversation between Mike O’Connor and Katherine Goodman on truck routes, the permitting process, and the current information about permits for rail spurs along Hwy 35 near Cochrane Katherine Goodman says: On Friday I formally asked the City Council of … Continue reading →

Hi all, I will periodically pull some of the comments up into the blog so that people will have a better chance of seeing them.  Here’s the first post like that.  Originally posted as a comment on the Steal These … Continue reading →

Isn’t the sand in the Mississippi coming from the same place as frac sand?  Maybe it’s the same stuff.  If so, maybe the Army Corp of Engineers could solve their budget problem.