Voter databases have become nearly as essential to national politics as money itself, and for the better part of the last decade the advantage has gone to the Republican Party and its Voter Vault database. This year the playing field has been leveled.
Also inside: Sarah Palin’s purloined Yahoo emails; Google Labs’ new audio search engine.
The Washington Post has a couple of extraordinary excerpts from Barton Gellman’s new book about Dick Cheney, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. It’s a captivating read, detailing how the Vice President and his small cadre of allies drove…
As crews picked up after the RNC in downtown St. Paul Friday morning, a handful of local and national journalists went to City Hall and delivered 50,000 signatures pressuring St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and the…
Minneapolis City Council Members Gary Schiff and Cam Gordon issued a call this afternoon for an independent investigation of police actions during the Republican National Convention (RNC). Read their full statement below the jump.
Today’s call follows two…
Between the four property searches conducted by authorities in prep for the RNC in Minneapolis and St. Paul this morning and last night, some members of the anarchist group called the RNC Welcoming Committee were found to be in possession…
Last week we sampled the spam Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s office released in response to a Minnesota Independent request. Pawlenty’s staff says he sends no e-mail and says under law they can make public only one of every seven…
The nonprofit group Citizens for Civil Discourse says it will bring its National Political Do Not Contact Registry campaign to Minnesota to stop robocalls in the state this election season. The…
A state law enforcement center set up to collect, analyze and share suspicious activity reports has taken a step toward addressing some of the concerns raised about it by privacy and civil rights advocates. The governing board of the Minnesota…
A post-9/11 intelligence agency created to collect and analyze suspicious activity reports from across Minnesota is operating without an important and widely used safeguard meant to check against inappropriate use of data. Most law-enforcement databases are protected with software that…
Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s unwillingness to make his e-mails public, which came to light in a recent Star Tribune report, raised questions about what he’s hiding as well as the legitimacy of…
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