Our counter yesterday said 145 people protesting on Friday. We’re here every Friday, 4-5p.m., and every Friday there are more! Starting with 6 or 7, then 15, then 30, then 60, then 98, and now 145!

Today in the Red Wing Republican Eagle:

Here’s how Xcel describes this project sprawling across southern Minnesota:

Today, the Initial Comments were due on the “need” side of this transmission line application. And here they are!! Mine first — I’m representing the Prehn Family and No CapX 2020, and then in order of appearance:

A little light reading for the weekend…

And right across the street:

I learned about Talon having filed another exploration plan, but all that was on the DNR site was a “Summary.”

So I fired off a missive to the DNR and requested and HAVE RECEIVED the “Exploration Plan and Notification for a diamond drilling and geophysical programs on State Leases” that was filed by Talon on March 13, 2025. It’s only 7 pages, so why not just post it? Seven pages doesn’t require a “summary.” Here ’tis:

This is the map — it reminds me of transmission maps, no roads, highways, or other details that would provide a clear idea where this is!

My best guess is this is the area:

Prior Legalectric posts — this has been limping along for years:

Talon Nickel, LLC digs in its claws again March 20th, 2025

Talon Mine & another CO2 capture scam? September 1st, 2022

Talon Metals and Tamarack Mine April 11th, 2022

Talon Metals near Tamarack? January 28th, 2021

Tonight on the City Council agenda is a proclamation of “National Library Week.”

Something to think about… in light of our Red Wing Public Library...

Last week, March 20, to be precise, when I was posting all those )#$(#(*@($)%$# “Presidential Actions” and Executive Orders, I’d put up a post on our Red Wing Convo regarding our Library, wondering if, like the City, the Red Wing Public Library receives federal funding.

Here’s the link to the Executive Order that caught my attention (I have all of them listed here Tracking “Presidential Actions” and Executive Orders as of 3/19 — if the link doesn’t work, at https://legalectric.org/tracking-presidential-actions/):

Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy  EO 14238  March 14, 2025

And the list of affected entities (FYI, the US Agency for Global Media has already silenced the Voice of America!):

Seeing that in the Executive Order, I’d asked about federal funding of our Library (as I did about federal funding for the City, no response yet) when I’d posted on Red Wing Convo. No one knew anything about it, though there was support for the Library, and also some goofy posts showing abject ignorance of the activities of DOGE.

It took a while, but today I received a response from our Library Director:

Our libraries are a crucial part of our social fabric. Libraries provide services far beyond when I got my first library card at least 65 years ago when my mother would haul me to the Linden Hills Library and fill the back seat with books (the library encouraged my reading, unlike the school, which tried to limit me to “children’s” books, way beneath my reading level).

Libraries are a social hub, providing reading programs for kids, public meeting rooms and conference rooms, a polling place, computer access, copies, newspaper archives, maps, magazines, ebooks on Libby, reference materials, ordering materials from other libraries… what am I forgetting??? Loss of library funding means that the dollars must be made up from somewhere or services suffer. I know I’d spoken about the importance of library funding during budget time, and the City didn’t even fund the additional staff time requested! That’s as absurd as not funding the full $10,000 for the homeless while leasing airport hangars for annual rates of just a few hundred dollars.

It’s National Library Week next week! Do show our libraries the support they deserve.

Every Friday, we’re at John Rich Park, from 4-5pm with our signs. Yesterday we had 98-100 exuberant people coming together to visibly let the Trump administration know exactly what we think. There are so many more honks and waves than fingers and yelling, I’d guess about 95% cheering us on. One of the odd things about this is that every Friday, someone yells out the window “GET A JOB!” That’s also come up on the Red Wing Convo fb page. ??? Do explain, I don’t understand…

Today, it was Gov. Tim Walz in Rochester, and the line was LONG. They filled the auditorium, and then folks waited outside for ? half an hour or so, in an oh-so-orderly fashion. We were told that we’d probably not get in, as they’d filled the overflow and would be shutting the doors soon, but patience and persistence paid off and everyone waiting got in. I brought my flag as I’d figured it’d be impossible to get in — and there’s Alan holding it for me as I got some photos:

And of course there were Trumpers, 4 of them, and 2-4 more elsewhere. The 4 came in to the school driveway after everyone was in the building, they’d been hanging out on the street, a LONG ways away. They were at the side door sidewalk that Walz’ SUV drove down, so they got to see him up close and not so personal, and after the SUV passed, they started yelling. The 3 men who came up to where we were earlier were also shouting occasional nasty nonsense at stragglers heading toward the door.

The woman in the white longish coat is Christina Barton. She came over and Alan and I had a chat with her, one of those frustrating interactions. Civil yet bonkers. Here’s info on her issues with the Rochester Public Schools. In Alpha News:

Rochester counselor blows whistle on trans ‘guidelines’ that district was ‘trying to hide’

From our friends at Center of the American Experiment:

Whistleblower school counselor doubles down despite accusations of ‘misinformation’

Teachers’ union expels whistleblower school counselor

And Liz Collins, wife of Bob Kroll, is at it again with this podcast:

Liz Collin Spo[t]lights RPS Whistleblower

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It’s indeed a beautiful day in the neighborhood — so encouraging and invigorating to see so many standing up — I hope that everyone who showed up is putting in time taking ACTION!!

LET’S GET THE DOGE OUT!