“Why are the big IT companies going out to buy land in the middle of "nowhere?" Why is Facebook buying Farms in Nebraska, Microsoft buying farms in Ohio, or Amazon buying 430 acres, 40 miles outside of Atlanta? It's because water and power are available, the local leadership can be easily bought with the promised increases in tax revenues. Basically the local leadership is too naive to see far enough down the road to the reduced ground-water and grid reliability.”
@gerrymcgovern
A new, water bottling plant suckered a rural city south of the #Mpls#MN metro into giving away practically free access to an aquifer that covers a large part of the state.
In the name of a few #jobs. #facepalm
Axios: Dean Phillips' standing on Capitol Hill has all but collapsed
As Rep. #DeanPhillips ramps up his long-shot bid for president, his Democratic colleagues back in Washington are fuming at what they see as the Minnesotan's betrayal of his party.
Protest this Sunday 2pm in #Minneapolis as the #MN Board of Investments is meeting soon.
(Organized by Anti War Committee, which has gotten deserved flack for supporting authoritarian governments nominally standing up to the US, but they have been making the divestment demand for a good while and it is one of the more feasible and impactful things we could get our state and local governments to do.)