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U.S. Sen. Al Franken may be able to draw them freehand in a couple minutes, but Gov. Pawlenty is on track to actually visit all 50 states by next July. That’s if he keeps up the peripatetic pace he’s set in the 105 days since he announced he wouldn’t seek a third term — and [...]

From the outset, the long-running legal dispute over the radio station now known as Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current featured intimacies and conflicts that verged on the familial. Some of the people upset by St. Olaf College’s sale of the former WCAL-FM to MPR are St. Olaf alums (also known as Oles), and some of [...]

Gov. Pawlenty got off an international flight from Iraq and Afghanistan and immediately took to the domestic airwaves. The health care reform plan is a “joke” he told Fox News, and President Obama is ”scamming the American people” — with “false advertising,” he added on Minnesota Public Radio. On his WCCO-AM show this morning, Pawlenty interviewed Colin [...]

Minnesota Public Radio rolls out its new integrated news page under the MPRnewsQ brand, prompting questions about the “Q.” Former KARE anchor Rick Kupchella launches a healthcare reform PR project, with a key Republican as his partner. And Fargo’s Roxana Saberi calls for the release of her former cellmate in Iran.

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 Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current. Static between St. Olaf and its alumni provided some crackle to a [...]

“We will never know who won,” Norm Coleman said Wednesday. That’s after seven Minnesota judges — three on Monday and four in January — concluded that Al Franken won Minnesota’s 2008 election for U.S. Senate. His was a “close victory,” the Democrat conceded on Monday. But Coleman — now down by 312 votes — isn’t buying it. “Our system isn’t geared for this kind of closeness.” Still, some precision is possible in politics, as Gawker.com suggested Wednesday with its two-word description of Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he might not sign an election certificate to seat Democrat Al Franken or Republican Norm Coleman in the U.S. Senate, even after the Minnesota Supreme Court is done with the disputed election.
“I also would want to look at what the courts did with the case in terms of leaving issues for [...]

In the Republican response to President Obama’s weekly address today, Gov. Tim Pawlenty regurgitates the right-wing Tax Foundation’s discredited “Tax Freedom Day” calculation to claim that ”the average American has to work from January 1st until this Monday, April 13th, just to earn enough money to pay all their taxes for the year.” It’s as deep a nod [...]

Thursday’s statement by Norm Coleman attorney Joe Friedberg has generated plenty of interest at local blogs and national news sites alike, mainly for his opinion that it’s “probably correct” that Al Franken will come out on top when the three-judge panel hearing Coleman’s Senate election contest rules. USA Today responded by asking, ““When can we [...]

A group of online media outlets — including Checks & Balances, Radio Free Nation, the Minnesota Independent, The UpTake, Twin Cities Daily Planet and others — have been pressing the Minnesota House of Representatives to change rules that limit who gets to cover their proceedings. Now that the Sergeant-at-Arms proposed (now-ditched) restrictions on all media [...]