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July 7, 2011
Betty McCollum wins military band spending battle
McCollum says the Pentagon doesn't need anymore band aid.Democratic Rep. Betty McCollum looks at the $324 million requested by the Pentagon to fund its 5,000 professional musicians in 154 military bands, and she sees the possibility of saving the taxpayers some money. And the Republicans in ... More >>
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June 22, 2011
Minnesotans blame Legislature, Dayton equally for shut down
Throwing cold water on claims of popular support by both the Republicans running the Legislature, and DFL Gov. Mark Dayton, Minnesotans in a new poll are blaming both sides equally for the budget battle that may force a state government shutdown. They also largely disapprove of the job the L ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Sen. Gretchen Hoffman apologizes for Twitter snafu, deletes entire account
Gretchen Hoffman throws the baby out with the bathwater.After using Twitter to twist the words of DFL state Sen. Barb Goodwin beyond their meaning, and getting spanked by the Senate Ethics Committee as a result, GOP Sen. Gretchen Hoffman has now apologized. "I am certainly sorry for my own m ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Countdown to government shutdown: Who's to blame?
Minnesota lawmakers have until July 1 to get it together.As of today, the Minnesota Legislature is two-and-a-half weeks tardy in solving the state's $5 billion budget deficit. Unfortunately for everyone, there doesn't appear to be a budget deal in sight. If no agreement is made by July 1st, ... More >>
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May 20, 2011
Sen. Ann Rest files ethics complaint against Sen. Gretchen Hoffman for false Tweet
Gretchen Hoffman is now the target of an official ethics complaint.When state GOP Sen. Gretchen Hoffman hacked up and tweeted a speech by her DFL colleague Barb Goodwin to make it look as though Goodwin was calling mentally ill people "idiots and imbeciles," Goodwin threatened an ethics compl ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2011
Cory Merrifield, SaveTheVikes.org leader, boosts new stadium plans
Courtesy Savethevikes.org.Vikings superfan Cory Merrifiled, right, has been lobbying for a new stadium since 2009. On Tuesday, a lot of Vikings fans celebrated a victory when team owners struck a deal with Ramsey County to build a new stadium in Arden Hills. But even with a location suppose ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Is Michele Bachmann smarter than a high school sophomore?
Let Amy debate! Let Amy debate!Michele Bachmann is famously reluctant to put herself in positions where she might have to talk to someone who disagrees with her. But Jesus God do we hope she makes an exception in this instance. Amy Myers, a high school sophomore from Cherry Valley, New Jers ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
"Please ID Me" lawsuit tossed out "with prejudice"
A judge dismisses a "Please ID Me" lawsuit "With Prejudice"You can't go to the polls in Minnesota on Election Day festooned in political messages, whether they're on shirts, hats, buttons or whatever. It's against the law. But the "Please ID Me" people, who urged vigilantes to run after gran ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
Scott Walker wins: Wisconsin Republicans through union-busting bill [UPDATE]
Sue Peacock/FlickrLet the recall efforts begin.Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly finally dropped all pretenses about Gov. Scott Walker's union-busting bill having anything to do with balancing the state's budget. Wednesday night, with 14 Democrats still on the lam trying to block a vote, the ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
Scott Walker defends union busting, gutting public school spending
Walker defends his budget.Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker stood before Wisconsin lawmakers yesterday, defended his union busting tactics against public workers, and then announced he wanted to gouge $1.5 billion out of the state's public school and local government aid spending. If he keeps this ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2011
Michele Bachmann fails again on campaign finance reports
Who's watching the books?For a budget hawk and a former tax pro, Rep. Michele Bachmann sure seems to have an issue with math. Maybe it's because she's got more money than she knows what to do with. The Federal Election Commission has informed her--again--that her year-end campaign finance repo ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
Al Franken rips into FCC approval of Comcast-NBC merger
Al Franken loses the Comcast-NBC merger fight.The Comcast-NBC Universal merger got an official green light today from the Federal Communications Commission, paving the way on a 4-1 vote for another major consolidation in the telecom industry. It's a merger that Al Franken has battled from th ... More >>
News
December 22, 2010
Return to Sender
What Would Comprehensive Immigration Reform Look Like If the Feds Got Off Their Duffs?
News
December 1, 2010
Fair-y Tales
What Would Comprehensive Immigration Reform Look Like If the Feds Got Off Their Duffs?
Blogs
November 22, 2010
Tom Emmer's team now waits on Minnesota Supremes
And now we wait on the Supremes.Tom Emmer's legal team got its shot before the Minnesota Supreme Court today to argue that election judges didn't follow the law when they counted up voters and votes on Election Day.
Blogs
November 18, 2010
Emmer petitions MN Supreme Court over ballots. [UPDATES]
Every vote should count, right?Tom Emmer's legal eagles are taking another shot at helping their candidate beat Mark Dayton in court. They have petitioned the Minnesota Supreme Court to order every election judge across the state to prove that the number of voters and the number of votes ca ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
Michele Bachmann caught spreading tax lies on "Good Morning America"
Bachmann vs. Stephanopoulos: No contest.Never letting the facts get in the way of a good soundbite, Michele Bachmann's been caught with her pants on fire by PolitiFact again. George Stephanopoulos, on "Good Morning America," asked her why it was okay for the wealthy to get tax breaks, but no ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
Minnesota Majority poll watchers accuse themselves of voter fraud
Election Integrity Watch got its wires crossed.It was a relatively peaceful day of poll-watching by a conservative group that appointed itself Election Day big brother...aside from a few hilarious blips. All that the volunteers of Election Integrity Watch wanted was to make sure that voting sta ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Minnesota Majority urges volunteers to flout the law
Watch out for people wearing buttons--they're breaking the law. Minnesota Majority is urging supporters to commit civil disobedience by wearing their "Please ID Me" buttons at the polls today. A federal judge banned the buttons Monday, but the conservative group told followers to go ahead and ... More >>
News
October 20, 2010
Operation Streamline: An immigration boondoggle
Project Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesn't Work
Blogs
October 18, 2010
Michele Bachmann was for the stimulus while she was against it
Bachmann: Saddling our kids with the fedeal debt is OK when she does it.Remember the Fox News gabfests, the D.C. rallies and the campaign ads where Michele Bachmann brags about voting against President Barack Obama's stimulus bill? Too much federal spending, she says. Turns out she had her h ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
Mark Dayton leads Tom Emmer but Tom Horner surges in new poll
Mark Dayton leads the governor's race, but not by much.Democrat Mark Dayton has the edge over Republican Tom Emmer in the latest statewide poll conducted ahead of the November election for governor. But his margin is narrow. And Independence Party candidate Tom Horner gained a lot of ground ... More >>
News
August 11, 2010
Seized: Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital
Part of the Amongst Us series
Blogs
August 2, 2010
Michele Bachmann dodges tea party smackdown with sick day
Graphic: Matt BardinsTea partiers in Missouri were spoiling for a fight with Michele BachmannSo much for the smackdown with Missouri tea partiers: Michele Bachmann called in sick. Instead of showing up in the Show Me state in a dialing-for-votes effort with Rep. Roy Blunt, she went home after ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2010
Keith Ellison says, yep, there's "extreme racists" in the tea party
Photo: cometstarmoonKeven LawWhat about racism at tea parties?The Republicans, led by Michele Bachmann, are trying to figure out how to co-opt tea partiers, and the Democrats said yesterday they're happy to let the Republicans do it. You want to stand with folks determined to end Medicare, pr ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2010
Norm Coleman rumored for Michael Steele's job, but can he match the flubs?
Steele is always ready with a colorful quote. We review some of the best blips of Steele's short career:
Blogs
July 21, 2010
Bachmann: I'm the "receptacle" of the Tea Party
Michele Bachmann is queen of the Tea Party.Michele Bachmann's crazy Tea Party Caucus press conference surpassed all expectations and was even loonier than we could have imagined.The first thing the Tea Party did was trot out their new Uncle Toms. Apparently stung by the accusation that they're a ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2010
Satveer Chaudhary stripped of DFL backing over fishy vote
Photo: Minnesota SenateThe senator won special fishing protections for a lake at which he owns a cabinSo state Sen. Satveer Chaudhary gets language inserted into an omnibus game and fish bill in the waning days of the legislative session in St. Paul; he wants additional measures to protect th ... More >>
News
June 9, 2010
Shooting Straight: Letters to the Editor
Photo: Minnesota SenateThe senator won special fishing protections for a lake at which he owns a cabinSo state Sen. Satveer Chaudhary gets language inserted into an omnibus game and fish bill in the waning days of the legislative session in St. Paul; he wants additional measures to protect th ... More >>
News
June 3, 2010
Testing Minnesota's gun show loophole
How easy is it to buy a firearm in the Twin Cities?
Blogs
May 13, 2010
Michele Bachmann says financial reform is fascism
Time for another "ism"When it comes to delivering the crazy-town incendiary rhetoric, Michele Bachmann doesn't quit. She spent much of the spring spouting the now totally debunked assertion that President Barack Obama had nationalized 51 percent of the U.S. economy.Our pick for Best Villain h ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2010
Shane Bauer's illness draws new White House attention
There was a flurry of press coverage and official U.S. government statements following Friday's news that Swiss diplomats were able to visit Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal in their Iranian prison cells recently. The latest concern: Bauer has a stomach ailment and Shourd has a serio ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2010
Dave Bicking: How politics ousted the Civilian Review Authority's loudest member
Bicking is the first willing member of the CRA to not be reappointed.
Blogs
April 15, 2010
Michele Bachmann's now an official 'Tea Party Hero'
Photo: Nick VlcekSurprised? Thought not. The Tea Party Express published its hit list today -- no Minnesotans are on it -- as well as its list of heroes. House Candidate And Incumbent Heroes Tom McClintock (R-CA) Tom Price (R-GA) Walt Minnick (D-ID) Mike Pence (R-IN) Michele Bachmann ... More >>
News
April 14, 2010
The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights
Photo: Nick VlcekSurprised? Thought not. The Tea Party Express published its hit list today -- no Minnesotans are on it -- as well as its list of heroes. House Candidate And Incumbent Heroes Tom McClintock (R-CA) Tom Price (R-GA) Walt Minnick (D-ID) Mike Pence (R-IN) Michele Bachmann ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2010
Tea Party Express: Who are these people?
Screengrab via Pargon/TeabonicsBehold the creative spellingThe tour buses of the Tea Party Express rolled into St. Paul for a rally this morning as part of a 48-stop 19-day cross country tour. So who are these guys?Last month Michele Bachmann complained that the media depicts Tea Partiers "as too ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2010
Tony Sutton rips into Collin Peterson
Here's the issue: Democratic U.S Rep. Collin Peterson, who represents the 7th congressional district, voted against the health care reform bill. Later, he said that since it had become the law of the land, he would work with it. To Republicans who have made "repeal and replace" their new batt ... More >>
News
March 17, 2010
Farming for Federal Dollars
Meet the Minnesotans who receive subsidies for not growing anything
Blogs
February 23, 2010
Tim Pawlenty dismisses federal Medicaid money he uses to balance the state's budget
The federal stimulus is being used to prop up Medicaid payments, which Pawlenty needs to balance the state budget.
Blogs
February 19, 2010
Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, Keith Ellison, Jim Oberstar backing health care public option
The public option in the Democrat's health care reform package, known to Michele Bachmann as a communist conspiracy, looks like it may have risen from the dead.
Blogs
February 4, 2010
Al Franken, reproductive rights, and a debate that goes nowhere
This is not news: Both sides of the abortion debate are dug in tighter than a stubborn mule. Here's a perfect example.
News
January 20, 2010
The 10 most influential lobbyists in Minnesota
Meet the invisible hands behind some of the state's biggest bills
News
January 13, 2010
Marijuana steadily creeps toward legalization
Is D.C. finally ready to let us toke up?
Blogs
December 29, 2009
Forced repatriation of ethnic Hmong raises state senator's ire
Mee Moua joins the international outcry over the fate of 4,000 Hmong forced to return to Laos.
Blogs
December 22, 2009
Crop subsidy data suggests Michele Bachmann is a welfare queen
As Michele Bachmann rails against government handouts, some of her critics point out she's feeding at the government trough.
Blogs
December 22, 2009
Barb Johnson campaign expense hearing set for January
Minneapolis City Council President Barb Johnson will be before a judge on Jan. 26, defending her decision to use campaign money for haircuts, dry-cleaning, her cell phone, and a line at her lake house.
Blogs
December 1, 2009
Polling place photo ID activists launch St. Paul petition drive
Andy Cilek thinks its perfectly reasonable to ask voters to prove they are who they say they are.
Blogs
November 30, 2009
Palin trounces Pawlenty as GOP standard bearer in new poll
The governor has been racking up a lot of frequent flyer miles lately, but not a lot of love.
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