“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.
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.
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…
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.
CORRECTED AND UPDATED Advocates for the former WCAL-FM public radio station have filed a petition (pdf) asking the Rice County District Court Sept. 25 to declare the station’s $10.5 million sale to Minnesota Public Radio void.
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Overexuberant support for Gov. Tim Pawlenty has come back to bite a major Minnesota company — for a second time. First, an executive with Piper Jaffray, Minnesota’s top municipal bond underwriter, gave too much money to the…
KARE’s Vita.mn? The Deets offers a sneak peek of the new events site Metromix, apparently KARE-11′s answer to Vita.mn, which launches tomorrow. [Tangent: How many sneak peeks has Ed Kohler scored?
The Star Tribune got edged out by tough competition in the just-announced 2007 IRE (Investigative Reporters & Editors, Inc.) Awards. Earning a finalist slot, the paper’s Paul McEnroe, Tony Kennedy, Laurie Blake, Pat…
Minnesota Public Radio seems to be beefing up its newsroom — with two new employees coming from the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Today, reporter Tim Nelson emailed friends to say he’s becoming the K-12 education reporter for 91.1 FM. Last…
Honestly subjective: When he started at Minnesota Monitor, Eric Black told me he was seeking the “sweet spot” between journalism and blogging, the best combination of “the reporting and verification discipline of the…
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