Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Summer Moon<\/p>\n
Today I went over to the Westside (St. Paul) to Neighborhood House for a meeting.\u00a0 In days now long past I use to go there quite bit when Eustolio Benavides was its director.\u00a0\u00a0 We worked on a few projects together.\u00a0 He got bounced out, I think, but nobody I talked to remembered him.<\/p>\n
This meeting was an initial one to get the legislative agenda setting process underway for the collaborative structure, Minnesota Environmental Partnership.\u00a0 The Sierra Club is a member and as the new legislative committee chair I attended.\u00a0 I haven’t been in a large room filled with people like this in quite a while.\u00a0 I knew only Dan Andreson, now the lobbyist for Clean Water Action and my immediate predecessor as chair of the LegCom as the Sierra Club names its legislative committee.<\/p>\n
Since the players are new to me, the individuals new to me and the politics of the environmental organizational community still pretty opaque to me, I just sat there, took notes and listened.<\/p>\n
The meeting finished at 4:30 p.m., putting me right in the middle of the evening rush so I drove up to Saji Ya on Grand Avenue and had some chirsahi as the highways untangled themselves.<\/p>\n
In the old days I used to say, “Another day, another meeting.”\u00a0 Now they’re a bit unusual.\u00a0 I don’t dislike meetings.\u00a0 A lot of folks I know profess a dislike for them, but I consider them one way of getting work done.\u00a0\u00a0 This one was the start of a long process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Summer Moon Today I went over to the Westside (St. Paul) to Neighborhood House for a meeting.\u00a0 In days now long past I use to go there quite bit when Eustolio Benavides was its director.\u00a0\u00a0 We worked on a few projects together.\u00a0 He got bounced out, I think, but nobody I talked to … Continue reading A Meeting<\/span>