So far the best video above. Watch this guy (who is he?) tearing a check out of checkbook page out of a small notebook and gleefully displaying it (one word, large letters, starts with a “V”)… and suddenly there’s yelling and swat, cammos, long guns on stage, guy dead on the floor in lobby, and the show goes on? Not clearing the scene, not evacuating, hey, no problem, carry on! Everyone milling around for a long time, until they clear the room, then milling around in the street. No danger, no panic, is this a normal reaction? Obviously fake, planned, staged…

Fiddling while Rome burns, or arranging the chairs on the Titanic, though music did stop. But of course, there was no danger, there was no other shooter, they knew exactly what was happening.

But correction, it wasn’t a body, the guy was alive and not shot. Video shows he ran through area and 10-15 ? Secret Service, FBI, rent-a-cops? were there, jumped to attention and pointed guns, shots were fired, and not one hit him? How is that possible???

And Leavitt’s statement, if it wasn’t planned, if she didn’t know, that’s a really weird thing to say. Much like Trump’s invitation to the Ellipse on January 6th, “It’ll be WILD!” Yes, it was wild. Yes, there were “some shots fired.”

This should be interesting. Be there or be square!!!

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Are you concerned about data centers? Time to speak up and DO SOMETHING!

Two data centers are in the works, both Google, and Xcel and MP have filed Electric Service Agreements (EAS) with the PUC.

TODAY comments are due on whether the Dept. of Commerce should get $250,000 for consultant “for identifying, tracking, and appropriately assigning the costs and revenues associated with integrating these large loads.” They’d sure better get that because these are the first and we need to do the best we can in assuring ratepayers aren’t stuck (that’s the PUC’s part), and then there’s water issues probably via the DNR. Here’s the notice:

That’s a no-brainer — we need to dig into this and it’s a bunch of new issues and beyond the expertise in Commerce, and the experts are going to cost.

And substantive notice also just came out, this one is crucial, and so far only in 25-159, the Minnesota Power/Hermantown docket:

It took five days after the filing and then “Notice of Objection Period” for this “Notice of Comment Period” to come out on the Hermantown one, so I’d expect a “Notice of Comment Period” any day now for Pine Island.

Here are the two agreements. It’d be good to compare and see if there are any differences. And yeah, gotta read these things to have anything to comment on!

MP & Harmony/Google Agreement – Hermantown

April 9th, 2026

Xcel’s Pine Island ESA for Data Center

April 17th, 2026

Get to work and start grinding out comments — we’ve got until July 21, 2026 for Initial Comments on Hermantown ESA so that’s enough time to wade through the ESAs and figure out what’s what, even with the redactions.

And I’ll post the Pine Island “Notice of Comment Period” when it arrives.

Why do some people think the law does not apply to them? Why do some people disregard their swearing on oath?

Here’s Iocco Campaign Finance Complaint #4. I was getting ready to file this when Mayor Iocco’s stumping for nuclear generation in North Dakota came to my attention… REALLY? So I did some looking into that:

RW Mayor promoting nuclear in ND! April 21st, 2026

And then I did finish this Complaint and filed. Why? Because way, way back in February 2025, Iocco swore on oath to file his amended campaign finance report showing the charge and payment to Wylie Wilson Trucking for use of the trailer. The trailer was put on land owned by Miller & Homes, in WI, and they did NOT appreciate that, and have since put up “NO TRESPASSING” signs — that means no campaign signs on that property. Same with Iocco’s earlier display of his HUGE sign on Dehn Oil property, they did not authorize that sign on the former Wilson Oil roof and told Iocco to IMMEDIATELY take it down, and it was taken down within hours. Earth to Mars — WILSON NO LONGER OWNS IT, despite his use of the address for SOS business registration and most recent SoS renewal on February 9, 2026 with no changes (click HERE and see for yourself!):

Wylie Wilson Trucking did produce an invoice in response to Discover, which I filed as exhibit (NOT Iocco), and Iocco ignored Discovery despite reminders. At the hearing, Iocco said he’d paid the bill, either the day of or the day before the February hearing! Uh-huh… Iocco did NOT produce any documentation, proof of payment, no check carbon, no printout from bank account, N-O-T-H-I-N-G! It did occur to him to say he paid it, but didn’t file proof, didn’t file a corrected final report, and so at the hearing, he said he would file. Right…

From the City’s Campaign Financial Reports page:

Gary Iocco

1. Gary Iocco – Campaign Financial Report 05-31-2024 to 08-04-2024 (PDF)
2. Gary Iocco – Campaign Financial Report 08-05-2024 to 08-30-2024 (PDF)
3. Gary Iocco – Campiagn Financial Report 08-31-2024 to 09-13-2024 (PDF)
4. Gary Iocco – Campaign Financial Report 09-14-2024 to 09-27-2024 (PDF)
5. Gary Iocco – Campaign Financial Report 09-28-2024 to 10-10-2024 (PDF)
6. Gary Iocco – Campaign Financial Report 10-11-2024 to 10-28-2024 (PDF)
7. Gary Iocco – Campaign Financial Report 10-29-2024 to 11-11-2024 (PDF)
8. Gary Iocco – Campaign Financial Report Certification of Filing (PDF)

Months later when he hadn’t filed, ONE YEAR AGO, I filed a Motion for Order to Show Cause to push him to produce it (and it served as a reminder to Iocco… well, should have!), and that Motion was denied. Iocco still did not file the report. Then I filed a Motion for Reconsideration, which was denied, and yes, that should have been more notice, another reminder to Iocco, and he STILL did not file the report. ALJ Mortenson, who denied those Motions, later said:

Overland demanded that the pro se respondent be ordered to show cause why he should not be sanctioned for conduct well outside Overland ‘s campaign complaint, an abuse of process that appears calculated to harass the respondent.

Oh my, expectation that someone follow through on promise under oath, to file a report that was the subject of the Campaign Finance Complaint, and following available administrative process to follow up on Iocco’s failure to file, that’s MY problem? Well, that theory did not go well for ALJ Mortenson. Whew…

And here we are, fourteen months after the hearing, and a year after those abusive and harrassing filings (SNORT!) and denials by the ALJ — Iocco’s final report is STILL not filed.

Good grief — It’s a small thing, a one page filing, and Iocco should file the report and provide a copy of the cancelled check, proof would be appreciated after all this time, because all we have is his statement that he paid it, just before the hearing, and nothing’s been filed, so color me skeptical that he paid it.

Again, why do some think the law does not apply to them? Especially something so easy to file, and that makes me wonder if he really did pay… so on that happy note, another gentle reminder, Mayor Iocco. A judge has been assigned, and now waiting for the primia facie determination. If there is, another hearing:

I’ll be putting together a campaign finance workshop open to the public and will be sending out engraved invites to all those who have been found to have violated campaign finance law. It’s not so difficult, but some clearly need a refresher course.

Check this take on the PowerOn Midwest project:

PowerOn Midwest Project Series Looking to Enhance Electric Grid to Meet Changing Needs

Too bad they weren’t at the meeting last night! Well attended meeting this evening in Windom on the “PowerOn Midwest” transmission project, PUC Docket CN-5-117.

Tomorrow, two more:

The purpose was to “inform” and to take comments on scoping of “Environmental Report.” The notice:

Here’s the order holding that the Application is complete and referring for a Contested Case!!

Here’s the main part of the order that I’m wondering about — exactly how will this work:

There are even more meetings next week:

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