Erik van Mechelen

Erik van Mechelen

How to Open the Door to Dialogue

An anecdote from Anoka County

Do you have a story to tell?

Talk to me to see if I can serve you this spring

A Long Trail Run to Love the Enemy in My Own Heart

A lesson learned unexpectedly on the Voyageur 50

Be the Change You Seek

Preface to the new version of [S]elections in Minnesota and an invitation to share your story

There is greatness inside all of us

It is a choice to constrain it or to let it unfold

Project Apario Fights to Reveal the Truth of JFK's Assassination

Be among the first in this generation to learn the circumstances leading up to 11/22/1963 and what happened afterward by discovering and reading key documents on Project Apario

How to Use Public Data Requests to Access Public Records for Better Decision Making (And to Help Government Where Current Processes Do Not Account for Fundamental Weaknesses in Overall Transparency)

1) A step-by-step to using public data requests, 2) An introductory case study on the City of Minneapolis's Konnech Inc. Contract, 3) Ideas on holding local government accountable in 2023

If you are still in the game

Gathering intelligence for all 3,143 county equivalents

[Live Podcast] MNGOP State Central Committee Recap Discussion

Tonight: 7:30pm

A Letter to the Editor of the Morrison County Record is Denied Publication while Paper Omits Key Details in its Own Writeup

Our elections are no longer transparent as they were originally intended