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Joe Soucheray

Joe Soucheray’s "Garage Logic" podcast can be heard at garagelogic.com.

Joe Soucheray: We keep electing people who merely intend to be important. Which stinks.

February 22, 2026 at 1:25 a.m.

The smell is so pungent that residents in the vicinity of the Potomac sewage spill say they can taste the filth just when talking on a street corner. Disease is...

Joe Soucheray: If ICE returns to Minnesota, it had better do things differently

February 15, 2026 at 1:51 a.m.

"It was a horrible and intrusive 72 days or so, two people shot dead, children taken, disorder and fear around every corner," Soucheray writes.

Joe Soucheray: Even the country’s best water needs to breathe sometimes

January 31, 2026 at 12:37 p.m.

"The unspoken charm of our town is the water. And I have gone to the taps all over Europe and the United States, finding no equal to what awaits me...

Joe Soucheray: We need our borders, but you need a better plan, ICE

January 24, 2026 at 12:58 p.m.

We feel put upon and wary, like strangers in a foreign place where we don’t know the rules and might be asked for our papers at the next corner.

Joe Soucheray: We’re in the national news every day but don’t want to be

January 17, 2026 at 5:05 a.m.

Most of us in Minnesota didn’t want this notoriety. That isn’t us.

Joe Soucheray: Under the deluding weight of political fealty, the center does not hold

January 10, 2026 at 8:14 a.m.

"If the country had sustained a center and not fallen into warring camps here is what would have happened in the last year," Soucheray writes.

Joe Soucheray: Ho, ho, ho, merry TIFness!

December 20, 2025 at 8:26 a.m.

If the corner of Grand and Victoria in St. Paul is meeting the statutory definition of blighted we are either in more serious trouble than we thought or we are...

Joe Soucheray: Walz can’t — or won’t — explain the fraud under his watch

December 8, 2025 at 2:50 p.m.

"The national commentary tone is embarrassment for Minnesota, that things could get this bad," Soucheray writes.

Joe Soucheray: You mean cold like in Yakutsk, Siberia?

November 29, 2025 at 9:19 a.m.

"Now we are admonished to prepare for the coldest weather on Earth. No need to be sour about it. Think of the good that can come from it."

Northern Lights wash the dark sky in pink.

Joe Soucheray: Not exactly sure what the question is, but northern lights is the answer

November 15, 2025 at 8:38 a.m.

"With rain we know what to expect, but with the Aurora Borealis we don’t know what’s next, except that it’s bound to be hypnotic and enchanting," Soucheray writes.

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