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AM.MN: Budget situation ‘solvable’? Try ‘incomprehensible’

By Chris Steller | 12.03.09 | 8:30 am

am.mn logoSolvable” is how Gov. Tim Pawlenty describes Minnesota’s forecasted $1.2 billion state budget deficit. Others from around the state used different words. East Grand Forks: “Worried.”  Minneapolis: “Sad.” St. Cloud: “Tough.” Rochester: “

Joe Wilson: Trapped in Obama-Dylan continuum?

By Chris Steller | 09.10.09 | 10:09 pm

obama biden pelosi looking at wilsonSeveral explanations have surfaced for U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst during the presidential address to Congress Wednesday, including policy-induced ejaculation and an anger-compensation scheme you might call pay-for-bray. Here’s another, spookier theory: Wilson was caught…

You don’t need Bob Dylan to tell which way the road goes

By Chris Steller | 08.24.09 | 4:46 pm

500px-MN-61.svgBut you might get him anyway. Word has reached our shores that the Bard of Hibbing is being courted by car companies who want his voice telling their customers via satellite-navigation systems whether to turn right or left.  

AM.MN: Klobuchar rations health care reform questions

By Chris Steller | 08.24.09 | 8:30 am

am.mn logoU.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar promised “I’m not going to be rationing health care” but she rationed out 14 question-asking opportunities among more than 10,000 callers during her tele-town hall on health care reform Sunday. Her staff wouldn’t…

Roberts to Reagan: Don’t laud Michael Jackson or you’ll have to praise Prince

By Chris Steller | 06.26.09 | 3:58 pm

prince_purplerain_single-704679In 1984, President Ronald Reagan was warned by a young White House associate counsel named John Roberts against sending a letter of commendation to singer Michael Jackson, who died yesterday. One reason: Praising the King of Pop would…

Bob Dylan: Politics seems like the last thing Obama would want to do

By Chris Steller | 04.06.09 | 2:55 pm

dylan-obamiconLeave it that Hibbing mystic, Bob Dylan, to see another side of Barack Obama. Dylan’s rambling appreciation for the president, already apparent before the election, only grows weirder and more mythical:

He’s like a fictional

Election Day morning, University of Minnesota campus: mobbed but orderly

By Chris Steller | 11.04.08 | 9:48 am

Polling places were mobbed around the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis early this morning. In a residential neighborhood near campus, a line of 300 people at Marcy Open School stretched out the door and around the corner. Poll workers had…

Independence Party’s 3rd CD candidate, David Dillon, among nation’s top self-funders

By Chris Steller | 10.08.08 | 12:44 pm

UPDATED Well, they do call it the Independence Party. It turns out the party’s candidate in the 3rd Congressional District race, David Dillon, has donated a considerable sum of his own money to his campaign through Sept. 2: $122,000. That’s 81 percent of his campaign’s $150,513 war chest, which according to a fresh report from the Center for Responsive Politics’ opensecrets.org, makes Dillon the eighth biggest self-funding candidate for the U.S. House or Senate this year, by percentage of total money raised.