No one’s going to push around mining companies on these guys’ watch

It’s a good thing that Sens. Tom Bakk, David Tomassoni and the Mesabi Daily News editorial page are standing up for those poor, defenseless mining companies at this time of great peril. Because with the world crumbling all around us, lord knows the the biggest problem we’ve got is that mining companies might have to pay for all of their permits on projects that we later subsidize with millions of Iron Range Resources dollars entitled to the citizens of the Iron Range.

Damn the proletarian rabble loafing about the streets!

Go down to the Hibbing Public Library and read the editorials from the Mesaba Ore from 1906 to roughly 1916. You’ll see that not much changes around here insofar as newspaper editorials are concerned.

Comments

  1. Again it boggles the mind, Tom Bakk is running for governor. His positions and posturing are asinine. He has about as much chance as a Jeb Bush White House bid, for good reason.

  2. No kidding! I find comfort in the likelihood that somewhere out there a political consultant is on retainer for Bakk shouting “SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP!” every time he’s in the paper.

  3. Great comments. Greenhouse orchids have been raised with less pampering than we give the mining industry.

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