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A commenter points out this morning that the print edition of the Star Tribune has relegated Paul McEnroe and Tony Kennedy’s story about the Texas lawsuit against Friend-of-Norm Nasser Kazeminy to a bottom corner of the metro section’s front page.

Placement means a lot in terms of readership — not only in print but on the web. So we decided to see how the Twin Cities’ mainstream news outlets are playing the story on their home pages.

Democrat Elwyn Tinklenberg leads U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) 47 percent to 44 percent in a new poll of 621 likely voters in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District that Survey USA conducted Oct. 21–22 for KSTP-TV. The poll shows that 6 percent of respondents favored Independence Party candidate Bob Anderson and 2 percent were undecided. The poll has margin of [...]

While the country turned its fickle eyes to Minnesota’s suddenly compelling 6th Congressional District contest, the race for the state’s 3rd District didn’t stop being hot. Over the last two days, both major parties’ congressional committees unveiled new TV ads. Big male guns vouched for the Republican candidate, state Rep. Erik Paulsen, and big female guns tried to widen a gender gap for DFLer Ashwin Madia — while heaping derision on another female office-holder, state Rep. Michele Bachmann. All this and more, with video and details about tonight’s candidate debate in Edina, after the jump.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visits Minnesota today to campaign for 3rd District DFL congressional candidate Ashwin Madia. Republican state Sen. Erik Paulsen’s new TV ad is called “Disturbing.” Independence Party candidate David Dillon held forth for an hour at the Humphrey Institute on Friday, and that night KSTP hosted a debate for all three contenders. Video and audio after the jump.

In what pollsters are calling a “do-si-do,” results of the latest survey in the high-profile race for Minnesota’s 3rd district congressional seat show DFLer Ashwin Madia holding a slight 46-43 percent lead over Republican state Rep. Erik Paulsen — a three-point spread that’s within the poll’s 4-percent margin of error. SurveyUSA conducted the poll of 634 likely voters for KSTP on Oct. 6–7.

While KSTP-TV started out its editorial last night with a disclaimer, it didn’t end up with one.

“It is rare when KSTP decides to take an editorial position,” began anchor Jessica Miles, but that’s exactly what the station did today in praising law enforcement for its job in policing the Republican National Convention and related protests. Undisclosed is that the opinion, attributed to the station’s owner, comes from one Stanley Hubbard, the state’s biggest Republican donor and a personal contributor the Republican convention.

Drama ensued Monday morning as Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy officials attempted to take cameras away from a reporting crew from KSTP that showed up to cover a report from the Minnesota Department of Education on the charter school. The report was commissioned to determine whether the school had run afoul of church and state concerns [...]

Sarah Jane… Coleman? A reader tips MinnPost’s David Brauer off to a big-time goof at KSTP in March. In its coverage of the premature release of jailed Symbionese Liberation Army member Sarah Jane Olson, the station showed an image of another ’60s-era radical — Norm Coleman, then an anti-war protester. Watch the video.

On the objectivity [...]

Who’s to blame? As Eric Black writes, blame is the game on both sides of the aisle as Republicans accuse Democrats of politicizing the 35W collapse. Star Tribune columnist Nick Coleman’s comments generated the most heat. “Both political parties have tried to govern on the cheap,” he wrote, “and both have dithered and dallied and [...]

GOP YouTube debates unraveling: The Star Tribune reports that plans for the Republican version of the recent CNN/YouTube debate among Democratic presidential hopefuls might be “falling apart.” Rudy Giuliani can’t make the Sept. 17 event, and only Sen. John McCain and Rep. Ron Paul have committed to participating. But Mitt Romney seems to have a [...]