Some graduating seniors at Rep. Erik Paulsen’s alma mater, St. Olaf College in Northfield, will be protesting the freshman congressman at next week’s commencement. Students will be pinning gold ribbons to their graduation gowns to protest commencement speaker Paulsen’s vote against including sexual orientation and gender identity in the federal hate crimes law.
Two graduation speeches that President Obama agreed to give are proving that, as someone once said, no good deed goes unpunished. Arizona State University decided to stiff him on an honorary degree at its graduation last night, and…
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…
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…
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