Walking back to Minnesota Independent headquarters yesterday, we happened upon media maven Arianna Huffington who was kind enough to exchange pleasantries and express approval of our fair city.
The Minnesota National Guard arrived in downtown St. Paul carrying batons and riot shields. The soldiers barricaded the intersection of Wabasha St. and Kellog St. for over an hour before falling into formation and marching to Shepard Rd.
As of 8 p.m. this evening, 163 protesters had been processed through the Ramsey County Jail. This includes 73 felony arrests, 42 gross misdemeanors and 48 misdemeanors, according to the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office. Arraignments will be held beginning at…
The streets of downtown St. Paul have quieted considerably in the last few hours. I just walked from 411 Main St., where we’re holed up with the kind folks at the Uptake, over to the Wabasha Bridge…
By Anna Pratt and Paul Demko
Early in the day protesters were joking with the riot police.
This group of anarchists, many of them wearing masks, refused to speak with reporters. Occasionally they would pause in…
The Republican National Convention will only run from 3 to 5:30 p.m. on Monday owing to the expected landfall of Hurricane Gustav tomorrow evening. The agenda will be limited to party activities, with expected speeches by President Bush,…
You can click on the image above, or here, to visit the National Hurricane Center’s tracking map for Hurricane Gustav, which is currently on a path that will lead it to landfall on the Louisiana…
The 16 bus is running late and more than a dozen folks are waiting on its arrival. Mayflies are everywhere — tiny critters, crawling over skin, flying into eyes, getting stuck under fingernails. Dozens of them touching down…
Time Magazine is reporting that Barack Obama will lay claim to the Democratic presidential nomination at Xcel Energy Center on Tuesday evening. With primaries in South Dakota and Montana slated for that day, Obama is…
In the final part of Cara DeGette’s series on high-tech law enforcement tools that might come out of the supply closet at the Democratic convention in Denver, we turn to restraint devices — the hoods…
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