On Tuesday, the New York Times featured a front page article about the Anoka-Hennepin School District and its two-year long struggle to defend policies that limit discussion of LGBT issues in district schools. It’s an issue the Minnesota Independent has covered from the beginning.The following is a full account of the dispute.
Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is continuing her silence about reports on Monday that her family’s Christian counseling clinic performs “ex-gay” therapy to cure gays and lesbians of their homosexuality. Reporters for ABC and CNN were rebuffed in their efforts to get clarification from Bachmann, and a reporter with Mother Jones unsuccessfully tried an in-person interview with Bachmann.
Rep. Michele Bachmann’s tea party response to President Obama’s State of the Union address last week became fodder for Saturday Night Live when SNL’s Kristen Wiig lampooned Bachmann in the opening scene. She played with the fact that Bachmann used a number of charts during her response, and that she appeared not to face the camera during CNN’s live broadcast.
A study last year by the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota found that Rep. Michele Bachmann appeared on cable news programs every nine days on average. Last week, she shattered those expectations by appearing on a cable news program at least once a day from Tuesday through Saturday making 14 national television or radio appearances.
Rep. Michele Bachmann lashed out at media outlets that have suggested she wants to backtrack on the GOP’s earmark ban. “There is no daylight between my position and Speaker-designate John Boehner on earmarks. Period,” she said on Friday afternoon. In several instances Bachmann has indicated she wants a change in the definition of earmarks to allow House members to earmark dollars for transportation and Army Corps of Engineers projects.
The Minnesota Independent got props in a Keith Olbermann segment that posed a good question: Will Target’s MN Forward donation scare other companies from donating to political campaigns? Olbermann interviewed TPM’s Christina Bellantoni, who says…
The Associated Press and Newsweek posted articles Monday reflecting on Al Franken’s first full year as a U.S. Senator, and both say he’s upended expectations that he’d be loud, brash and comical. Franken told…
Reps. Michele Bachmann and Steve King, R-Iowa, have been negotiating with the House Ethics Committee and the House Administration Committee to share the services of Sergio Gor, who will handle press…
The St. Cloud Times is the latest in a string of major local and national media outlets that have taken issue with Rep. Michele Bachmann’s public statements about health care reform. Each of the nonpartisan groups the newspaper contacted…
Jason Mattera caught Sen. Al Franken in one of his “ambush” interviews last week, and conservatives are all atwitter over Franken’s demanding that Mattera “shut up” after Mattera repeatedly…
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