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Wall Street Journal notes spat over deal that created The Current

By Chris Steller | 04.23.09 | 9:23 pm

Norm Coleman wasn’t the only one whose Minnesota court appeal this week got noticed in the national press. Thursday’s Wall Street Journal highlighted SaveWCAL’s legal effort to up-end the 2004 radio-station sale by St. Olaf College that created…

Rybak likes idea of White House urban policy czar — enough to be it?

By Chris Steller | 11.20.08 | 5:27 pm

Mayor R.T. Rybak of Minneapolis did an excellent job today on Minnesota Public Radio, extolling the virtues of the proposed urban policy office in President-elect Barack Obama’s White House. He did a fairly miserable job of professing a lack of interest in whether Obama might offer him the job running it.

Franken attorney: ‘Odds are something went wrong’

By Chris Steller | 11.05.08 | 12:33 pm

“The odds are that something went wrong with respect to counting.”

That’s what Democrat Al Franken’s campaign counsel, David Lillehaug, said this morning about the prospect of a pending statewide recount in yesterday’s U.S. Senate election in Minnesota. “We want to make sure that each ballot that was cast is counted appropriately,” he said.

Ad blitz continues in the 6th with new DCCC release

By Andy Birkey | 10.30.08 | 4:20 pm

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is putting up a new television spot in the 6th Congressional District attacking Rep. Michele Bachmann on the economy.

Meanwhile, Bachmann’s ad attacking Democratic challenger El Tinklenberg gets panned by Minnesota Public Radio’s Tim

Radio on the TV: Bachmann posse poses for cameras at MPR debate

By Chris Steller | 10.30.08 | 3:31 pm


Supporters of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann rallied on a dead-end street outside Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) studios in St. Paul today, where the embattled member of Congress debated Democrat El Tinklenberg for 30 minutes (archived MnIndy liveblog

MPR poll: Dead heat in Bachmann-Tinklenberg contest

By Paul Demko | 10.24.08 | 11:31 am

A second poll released in the last 24 hours confirms that the Sixth Congressional District contest is extremely close less than two weeks before election day. According to the poll released today by Minnesota Public Radio, 45 percent of those surveyed support Democratic challenger Elwyn Tinklenberg, while 43 percent favor incumbent Republican Michele Bachmann.