Lakeville

Much has been made of McCain’s angry crowd in Lakeville last week, where the candidate snatched a microphone from the hands of a questioner asserting that Barack Obama is “an Arab.” McCain’s response to this claim? “No ma’am. He’s a decent family man and citizen.”
Let’s run the tape again:
Questioner: “He’s an Arab.”
McCain: “No, he’s decent.”
The [...]

UPDATED  Ana Marie Cox heard “Arab terrorist.” Josh Marshall is reserving judgment now hears only “Arab.” And The Uptake offers a post-game interview with the speaker herself. But one way to judge whether the woman at the Oct. 10 rally in Lakeville, Minn., told Sen. John McCain that Sen. Barack Obama is (merely) “an Arab” or (alternatively) “an Arab terrorist” [...]

This is the first in a series of articles looking at November’s upcoming levy referendums.

Independent School District 194, which serves Lakeville, southern Burnsville and Elko, warns that severe budget cuts will be necessary if the three levy referendums on the ballot this November fail.

Failure of the first two questions on the ballot would require “a [...]