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Pawlenty mingles populism and fiscal bonafides in Iowa stump

By Jon Collins | 08.02.10 | 12:51 pm

Tim_Pawlenty_speaking,_Dec_29,_2007, from WikimediaIn Iowa this weekend for the start of what the New York Times called the “Pawlenty road show,” Gov. Tim Pawlenty shrugged off questions about a presidential run with a wink and gathered jeers and accolades from the punditry.  From

Anfinson: Unreasonable data requests could narrow public access

By Jon Collins | 07.29.10 | 12:03 pm

David Brauer, the media guy at MinnPost, dredged through our piece this morning on Sean Niemic’s maybe-partisan data requests from DFL constitutional offices and came out with some good insight from Minneapolis media attorney Mark Anfinson:…

Target’s longtime PAC stayed in middle-of-road, avoided oncoming traffic

By Jon Collins | 07.29.10 | 7:54 am

Target’s political action committee is making headlines for a $150,000 donation to the MN Forward PAC, a group that supports GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer. But it’s not the Target Citizen’s Federal Forum Political Action Committee’s first foray into political giving: Its donated $1.4 million to races since 2000.

In bid for Bachmann’s seat, Clark goes to geeks with Android app

By Jon Collins | 07.28.10 | 11:12 am

Fresh off a high-profile appearance at the Netroots Nation conference in Las Vegas, Minnesota 6th Congressional District candidate Tarryl Clark has released an app for Android phones, the open-source competitor to iPhone and beloved operating system of gadget geeks.

Target misses mark on billboard and bloggers

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.14.08 | 12:11 pm

This Target billboard, spotted by a Flickr user in Times Square, seems to have completely missed its mark with some marketing watchdogs. Amy Jussel, founder of Shaping Youth, an organization that looks into the…

Black is Back: Veteran Journalist Launches Solo Blog

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.31.07 | 8:09 am

When Eric Black, a journalist who for three decades served as a “humble and obedient ink-stained wretch” in the Star Tribune newsroom, announced in June that he’d be taking a voluntary buyout and going it alone in the blogosphere,…