Open Letter by Vance Opperman

Vance Opperman

Rock On, Dick Clark!

Dick Clark wants to keep working! We should all celebrate people who wish to work at any age.

February 2010

Good Riddance to the Old Decade

Here are my resolutions for all of us collectively in the first year of the coming decade.

January 2010

Hello Sun, Goodbye Dome

More than 77 million spectators have been lured inside the Dome, and to the best of my knowledge, they all came out well-entertained and neither rained nor snowed upon.

December 2009

The Six-Million-Dollar Host

The GOP convention generated $168 million in new spending in the area; a $6 million host committee surplus went to Minnesota foundations.

November 2009

PAWN America

Consumer economic programs, such as Cash for Clunkers, has created one great big government garage sale.

October 2009

Delta Dental Is the Model

The government should look to Minnesota for health care reform.

September 2009

Welcome to GM (Government Motors)

While most Americans quit buying GM and Chrysler cars, we now own the companies instead.

August 2009

Reform School

It's the economy, stupid.

July 2009

Don't Vote for Judge X!

Even though the Minnesota Constitution requires the electorate to elect their judges, we both know that the system has been rigged to prevent actual elections.

June 2009

Don't Invest Like Pinocchio

Hard work and hard-earned education are the only happy endings to our story.

May 2009

Tax Time for Non-cabinet Appointees

Nothing would simplify our tax code and make it fair and equally applied more than that simple legal requirement.

April 2009

Rabid Redux

We need a way to end the endless elections, and produce a majority-elected official on time and under budget.

March 2009

Keeping the X(-Car) in Xmas

If we must have a car czar, let’s appoint Ric Ocasek, formerly of the Cars. Dinah Shore would approve.

February 2009

CYA: TARP

Unpaid Wall Street bonuses are a hardship without question, but having no place to live and being evicted from your house is worse.

January 2009

Time to Be Thankful

Only in countries where the citizens know that power will be peacefully transferred can there be long-term prosperity.

December 2008

Out of Change

Dear Senators McCain and Obama: let me suggest what change would look like.

November 2008

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