Tom Elko

Within hours of a Monday meeting at the state Capitol at which reporters heard that proposed restrictions on media wouldn’t go into force, state troopers descended on a reporter for taking a photo of a legislator who was offering a bill to a state House of Representatives committee.

This afternoon, videographer Chuck Olsen of The UpTake held a “press event” (pictured above) in response to another refusal by Sen. Norm Coleman’s campaign to allow an UpTake reporter into a public campaign event. This is the third time this fall Coleman’s campaign has barred entry to an official event without explanation.

A day late on inconsequential news: When MinMon’s Tom Elko blogged about Tim Pawlenty’s joke on WCCO about not gettin’ any, it took off: Wonkette linked us up and off it went: it seems everybody covered it, from CBS to the Guardian to Huffington Post. So, funny to read that Vita.mn sex columnist Alexis McKinnis, [...]