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Rochester paper opposes marriage amendment

By Andy Birkey | 05.12.11 | 8:48 am

The Rochester Post Bulletin is the latest Minnesota newspaper to oppose the Republican’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. In a Wednesday editorial the paper argued that current Minnesota law on same-sex marriage is sufficient and a constitutional amendment is unnecessary. The Post Bulletin joins more than a dozen other papers throughout the state that have spoken out against the amendment.

Coleman and Franken: Battle of the word clouds

By Chris Steller | 02.05.09 | 11:05 pm

norm-and-al-word-clouds-1Norm Coleman recently wrote a well-publicized “Dear Al” letter to Al Franken about the current Senate election contest. On Thursday Franken returned the favor in a column on (of all things) the same topic, which appeared in the Rochester…