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E-Verify vendor vows to sue state, MPR

By Chris Steller | 12.14.09 | 1:50 pm

logoThe Texas firm hired by the State of Minnesota to vet new hires for legal work status says the state and Minnesota Public Radio can expect a lawsuit, after MPR reported that Lookout Services made

Coleman’s individual donations dropped with trial’s start

By Chris Steller | 07.27.09 | 1:10 pm

Like a plane from Washington, D.C., descending into Minnesota through iffy Midwestern weather, former Sen. Norm Coleman’s financial support from individual donors took a long, bumpy decline. A week-by-week analysis of new Federal Elections Commission reports shows that receipts from individuals reached a high point around the time Coleman’s election-contest trial began Jan. 26, then trended downward through his concession on the last day of June.

HuffPo: Minnesotan interviewed by FBI agents investigating Kazeminy charges

By Chris Steller | 05.13.09 | 9:41 pm

colemannormThe Huffington Post is reporting that the FBI conducted an interview with a person in Minnesota as part of an investigation of so-called “Suitgate” charges leveled against Norm Coleman last summer. HuffPo doesn’t name the person and…

Coleman repeats he’s done no wrong regarding hidden-donation claims

By Chris Steller | 04.02.09 | 11:59 pm

Norm and Laurie Coleman at a 2008 campaign event (Paul Demko)

Norm Coleman insisted Thursday that he and his wife, Laurie, have done nothing wrong.
The former U.S. senator was talking about a Texas lawsuit’s claim that a campaign…

Best of the RNC: Outside the green zone edition

By Molly Priesmeyer | 09.06.08 | 12:16 pm

On a day that Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak and St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman declare the RNC a “great success” (“nothing burned!”), we look back at the best of the RNC, including real-life delegate quotes, police ineptitude, nonsensical signs, and bird porn. Oh, my!

RNC Day Two Diary (part I): Huck and me; on the convention floor

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 09.03.08 | 8:38 am

Tuesday’s adventures began with my shoulder and Mike Huckabee’s shoulder touching–though he didn’t seem to notice. It ended in front of Babani’s Kurdish Restaurant with a column of riot police who, after firing multiple exploding tear gas canisters a half hour earlier, said “thank you” and “we really appreciate it” in their final effort to disperse the remnants of a particularly dynamic march.

UPDATED: Two Four people arrested in Denver suburbs in possible Obama assassination plot

By Steve Perry | 08.26.08 | 7:28 am

A pair of men have been arrested in the Denver metro area after one of them was found to have methamphetamine and numerous guns, including a “sniper rifle,” during a routine traffic stop in Aurora, Colorado. The Secret Service, ATF,…

Buzz about Obama’s safety hits MSM–but news of disturbing Texas incident does not

By Steve Perry | 02.27.08 | 10:26 am

obama.jpgThrough the course of this extraordinary primary season, few subjects have been discussed so much privately and so little publicly as the matter of Barack Obama’s personal safety as the first African-American presidential candidate to…