US politicians on both sides of the aisle have spoken out about the civil war in the Darfur region of Sudan that has killed some 400,000 people and displaced two million more — including…
…and not the kind you go to church for
In many ways, a good politician is like a good sailor; he knows that the best way to get from point A to point B is to follow the…
There was an outage yesterday among Comcast users in Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, and the event has raised the specter of Net Neutrality once again. After the fact, Comcast is claiming it was a hardware issue, and…
Short of returning political contributions to defense contractors whose work might call into question his antiwar stance, Mike Erlandson could look to Senate candidate Mark Kennedy for what not to do–begin hurling rocks in the proverbial glass house.
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While Congressional candidate Mike Erlandson must weigh whether a few thousand dollars of income from military contractors is worth the risk of being perceived as less than resolute in his opposition to the Iraq War–an argument likely to be…
If politicians were NASCAR drivers, whose logos would they plaster on their jumpsuits? For George W. Bush it’d be a toss-up: top funder Morgan Stanley’s non-descript blue triangle has a monetary, but definitely not an aesthetic, edge over…
Next Tuesday, September 12, is Primary Day when voters in many districts will pick who from their party will be listed on the November 7th ballot. For the 5th Congressional District, whoever DFL voters pick to be on the baloot,…
With the noble goal of demystifying political stat-tracking, Pollster.com launched a few days ago, just in time for the primaries. A collaboration between Mystery Pollster Mark Blumenthal, media partner Slate, and University of Wisconsin political scientist…
Keith Ellison picked up what could be a pivotal endorsement from American Jewish World, the newspaper for Minnesota’s Jewish community, with a circulation of around 5,000 and a majority of its readers residing in the Fifth Congressional District. In…
The Minneapolis Police Department has suspended the use of a screening psychologist, Michael Campion, after his position on the board of the Illinois Family Institute came to light.
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