Latest complaint against Mayor Iocco for failure to file amended Complaint dismissed because there’s a 1 year statute of limitations. Minn. Stat. 211B.32. GRRRRRR. And although the ALJ in earlier Order & Memorandum stated in writing that Iocco had said under oath that he’d file amended report, this judge casts doubt on that and states that “[t]he final Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Order in the November 2024 Case did not require Respondent to make an amended filing.” Oh, OK. Another GRRRRRR.

Keep your eyes open for a Campaign Finance Law workshop on June 20th, with engraved invitations for everyone running in November 2026 election, Red Wing City Council, School Board, Goodhue County, State House and Senate, and others who’ve run in past elections.

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.

Another full house!

There are more meetings next week,Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, more opportunities to show up and let them know what you think. Keep in mind this is NEED and not ROUTING, so get up to speed on need, demand, cost, cost/benefit, that sort of thing.

Here’s the meeting notice to get an idea what it’s about:

And here’s the Order for the bigger picture:

The important points, in addition to the more technical questions:

Here’s Minn. Stat. 216I.05, subd. 11(e):

And the “Next Gen Highway Act.” Minn. Stat. 161.45 (it’s long, so here’s a link):

Next Gen Highway Act

Cost came up at this meeting, and it’s important to recognize that this particular project may not appear to cost much,but we’re also paying a percentage of all the others too. So I’m parking MISO Schedule 26A again, because we need to know ho’s paying what for this, and need to keep it handy for reference:

Schedule 26A Indicative Annual Charges106365_posted 9-30-2025 Download

Here’s the application, if you really want to get in the weeds, and at least the application — pick out the parts that interest you, there’s bound to be something:

• Application_20262-227787-02 Download
• App A_Checklist_20262-227787-03 Download
• App B_Order Notice & Exemptions_20262-227787-04 Download
• App C_Technical Diagrams_182380-CO-01_20262-227787-05 Download
• App D_Revenue Requirements_20262-22787-06 Download
• App E_Planning Analysis-Public_ 20262-227787-08 Download
• App F1_GRE Forecast_Redacted_20262-227787-10 Download
• App F2_Xcel Forecast-Redacted_20262-227787-12 Download
• App G_ DSM & Conservation_20262-227787-13 Download
• App H_Outreach Materials_20262-227787-14 Download

Time to get to work!!