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On Bloggers and Their Bosses

By Joe Bodell | 09.26.06 | 5:02 pm

Can the statements of a paid consultant be attributed to the candidate who pays him a healthy monthly fee?

We’re learning more and more details of the relationship between Mark Kennedy, candidate for U.S. Senate, and Michael Brodkorb,…

If young people could select our next Congress

By Leigh Pomeroy | 09.17.06 | 11:35 am

(Crossposted at Vox Verax.)

As I have said, Bluestem Prairie is doing a terrific job in covering Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District (CD) race between incumbent Gil Gutknecht and DFL challenger Tim Walz. Minnesota Central is…

Blogosphere: Police thyself!

By Leigh Pomeroy | 09.10.06 | 12:32 pm

While the blogosphere is no doubt a loose, uncontrolled, “wild west” outpost of the internet, there are boundaries past which bloggers are treading on shaky ground. One is character assassination, regardless of whether the individual who is the subject…

Hats off to Bluestem Prairie

By Leigh Pomeroy | 09.04.06 | 10:24 am

This Labor Day should not go by without acknowledging the terrific work being done by A Bluestem Prairie. BSP has made it a personal goal to cover the 1st District congressional race, and is accomplishing it with a determination…

Tim Pawlenty, “blogger.”

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.28.06 | 7:24 am

We’ve covered Mark Kennedy’s un-blog pretty thoroughly here, but his campaign seems to understand the medium far better than Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s. Like Kennedy, the governor doesn’t write anything–so no opinions, no first-person voice-of-the-candidate musings, no feedback…