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You’ve heard of carbon offsets; newspapers seem to be doing something similar with offsetting editorials for and against Norm Coleman’s legal appeals to reclaim his old U.S. Senate seat. Over the weekend it was the Wall Street Journal egging Coleman on (sorry, bad metaphor), while the Bemidji Pioneer, a reliable outpost of Coleman support in [...]

Norm Coleman told the Star Tribune editorial board Thursday that its reporters “could have waited” until after the Nov 4 election to ask questions about charges that businessman Nasser Kazeminy funneled unreported money to the former senator. Instead, Coleman charged, the reporters knowingly “inserted themselves” into a DFL Party TV ad by shouting questions to him as he left an Oct. 29 campaign event.

Newspaper stalwarts like to tout the delight print readers feel when their eyes fall upon interesting juxtapositions of stories they’d never see online. But sometimes such paper-copy serendipity can be bewildering. Look at today’s Star Tribune B section (emphasis on B).

The time is nigh for Norm Coleman to say goodbye. That was the word over the weekend from Kiplinger.com, USA Today and an editor at National Review. Coleman’s bid to up-end Al Franken’s U.S. Senate recount win must stop at the Minnesota Supreme Court, wrote a Star Tribune columnist. He might push it further, as [...]

As we reported yesterday, Rep. Michele Bachmann has been saying that Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade plan for global warming will cost households $3,100 each year in energy costs. Only trouble is, the author of the MIT study she’s citing said last month she’s flat wrong. Now MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is calling out the Minnesota Republican for [...]

More newspapers, online media outlets and political pundits are offering former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman free advice — mainly that he look in the mirror and see that he’s toast.

The Star Tribune may be financially bankrupt but it’s not out of ideas for how to make the news pay. The front page of Sunday’s print edition trumpeted a “Star Tribune Exclusive — only in your Sunday paper.” Indeed, to read the investigative piece about the chaos left by a construction financier’s bankruptcy, you had [...]

Former Sen. Norm Coleman in an interview with SIRIUS XM Radio’s Andrew Wilkow raised the specter of chucking the results of the Nov. 4 election to hold a runoff election to decide whether he or Al Franken will be Minnesota’s second senator. But in doing so, he seemed to be confused about the local mediascape:
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Norm Coleman’s contest just got a boost — not legally, but financially. The Republican National Committee has transferred a quarter-million dollars to the state GOP to help cover legal costs in Coleman’s bid to regain his U.S. Senate seat. While the GOP wallet may be fatter, Coleman’s chances grow slimmer, according to experts interviewed by [...]

Amid budget woes that have pinched City Pages’ online budgets, area blogs are test-driving new ideas — from a new foodie site by a laid-off City Pages restaurant critic to a tech-blogger’s pay-per-post microfinancing plan to “Content Partnerships” at City Pages’ 2008 local blog of the year.