Posts by Chris Steller

A Washington Post reporter has blogged his frustration (since scrubbed) over getting scooped on his own paper’s editorial pages. A recent local example of the same scenario: former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton’s December depression-and-drink rollout in the Star Tribune.

U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum’s congressional website was hacked last night along with more than 40 other House websites. McCollum’s site remains down this morning.

For the second time this week, things didn’t go as planned for a costumed Minnesotan entering the offices of Louisiana’s Sen. Mary Landrieu. Amy Klobuchar, dressed like a New Orleans Saints fan, tried to make good on a football bet Wednesday by delivering a dish of Minnesota gumbo to her colleague’s Washington office. But A-Klo’s maiden [...]

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Eastern Louisiana has confirmed what social media and all other signs strongly suggested: The Joseph Basel charged with a felony at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office is indeed from Minnesota.

Minnesota’s best chance at a mention during the State of the Union — barring an unlikely shout-out to accused phone-repair impersonator Joe Basel — is Sen. Al Franken’s new jobs bill, inspired by a Minnesota program. But a nod from Obama may not bode so well. Last year in a similar speech, the president praised Minneapolis for saving [...]

Mike Parry kept Minnesota’s Senate District 26 in the Republican column Tuesday, winning a plurality of the vote in a special election that pitted him against DFLer Jason Engbrecht and Roy Srp of the Independence Party.

Updated: A Joseph Basel — possibly of Minnesota and involved in an alleged phone-tampering against Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana — follows veteran rightwing prankster James O’Keefe on Twitter.

County Auditor Laura Ihrke tells MnIndy she can’t recall another winter election in Steele County over the last 30 years. But based on midday reports she guesstimated a turnout percentage of 16 — or twice the high temperature, since polls opened Tuesday, of 8º F.

Two new takes on Tim Pawlenty show how the gap between national stature and local knowledge could actually serve him well in a presidential campaign.

A classic Minnesota three-way election is underway today in Senate District 26, with DFLer Jason Engbrecht, Republican Mike Parry and Independence Party candidate Roy Srp vying to replace Dick Day. And classic Minnesota January weather returned just in time for the vote.