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freshmn: minnpost: Effective tax rates in Minnesota, considering state and local taxes (Source: Minnesota Department of Revenue) The effective rate for the top 5 percent of households, those earning $175,704 and higher, was 9.7 percent — compared with 12.4 percent for a family earning between $31,000 and $40,000. From “Minnesota’s overall tax burden is increasingly

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The Zap-uccino: Go Green Beans’ awesome custom electric coffee truck

We stopped by the Midtown Farmer’s Market after taking the family to the YWCA across the street, and I had to stop to check out this awesome customized electric truck that Go Green Beans is using for their mobile coffee business.  Tara (pictured above) and Tim (below) chatted with me a little about it –

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“Why don’t friends with kids have time?” Good answer by Washington Post’s Carolyn Hax, with a well deserved kick in the pants to the question writer at the end. I read this on Facebook first, posted by a friend of a friend. I actually kinda enjoyed reading the newspaper “clipping” (bigger image here). Here is the

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newsweek: markcoatney: Seamus has hit at this before; been meaning to respond because I think it displays a fundamental misunderstanding of Tumblr. Namely, that it is designed to be consumed/experienced primarily on the public-facing side.  In fact, while you can easily read this Tumblr like any other blog, and even, like most other blogs, make

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I’m amazed by how much more traffic we get from original reporting than aggregate reporting. I’m pleased to report that the market rewards original reporting. I didn’t necessarily think that would be true. Tucker Carlson talking about The Daily Caller. He was interviewed by Betsy Rothstein: “So What Do You Do, Tucker Carlson, Editor-in-Chief, The

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One bury brigade in particular is a conservative group that has become so organized and influential that they are able to bury over 90% of the articles by certain users and websites submitted within 1-3 hours, regardless of subject material. Literally thousands of stories have already been artificially removed from Digg due to this group.

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I caught a nice Steelhead on Lake Michigan over by Algoma, WI on Friday August 1. We chartered a boat through Kinn’s Sport Fishing. Saturday morning, we hit the water at 4am. Yeah, that’s FOUR with a 4 in the morning. Anyway, we caught 5 fish, but it wasn’t my turn to haul one in,

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