MinnPost

A new "newspaper" will begin for the Twin Cities and Minnesota, online and printed:
http://www.minnpost.com/

It sounds very high-minded and humble, trying to be what a purely profit driven newspaper fails to be. I wonder if it'll work out?

I suppose politics is where I'm most interested, NOT politics of parties, but politics of policy and issues that need addressing.

I admit there's so much I don't know, so much I just hope works out. I can only focus on a few issues. I wonder how "peak oil" could be addressed by a local newspaper? It's a sort of issue that is both too-complex, and too-uncertain to bring any easy reading, AND equally unclear what response we as a community ought to take. I know the response I THINK we should take - to move our economy away from dependence upon cheap energy to keep it running, and do this through higher fuel taxes, BUT how can a locale do this, and "harm" our competitiveness against neighboring states AS WELL as the global economy.

I like to look at the bigger picture, but no clear answers for the smaller world close to home. I think we should prepare, but who should pay, and who needs to believe before action makes a difference?

Well, just my issue. MinnPost can ignore like a dozen others that are "too hard".