Blog box featured Minnesota posts
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Cravaack ranked as least conservative Republican in MN delegation
Capitol View: "The score from the influential Club for Growth could be useful in his DFL-leaning district."
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It’s more than partisan at the Capitol. It’s personal
NewsCut: "It's not particularly difficult to see why so many legislators have called it quits at the Minnesota Capitol this session, often citing the changing atmosphere of partisanship there."
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Vikings agree to accept only $800m in stadium subsidies
Field of Schemes: The deal "shows that if team owners ask for the moon and the stars, they can usually count on being bargained down by only a couple of lesser planets."
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New Buz’n, K-TWIN formats shake up Twin Cities radio ratings
Three months after WLTE switched to country "Buz'n 102.9" and B96 turned into the intriguingly named K-TWIN, competitors laud the former’s success and wonder what the hell the latter was thinking.
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Peterson rocks the Rock and Roll Caucus
Hot Dish Politics: "U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and a few musical friends are tuning their guitars today to inaugurate the newest legislative group in the U.S. House: the Rock and Roll caucus."
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‘Antiques Roadshow’ in Minneapolis
MinnPost: "What’s the highest-rated show on PBS? Not 'Masterpiece' or 'Frontline,' but 'Antiques Roadshow,' where people show experts stuff from their attics and learn that it’s worth a fortune — or not. For anyone who has ever hoped the painting found in Aunt Martha’s trunk was a lost Vermeer, 'Roadshow' is TV crack."
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Minnesota Republican Party lays out ‘serious concerns’ about financial management
"The Minnesota Republican Party Monday reported officials found 'questionable decision-making and a lack of accountability' among the 'serious concerns' in the party's financial management over the past several years."
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Ripple In Stillwater: Will Bachmann and Romney post bail money for their fraudster donor pal ‘Bobby Thompson?’
Ripple in Stillwater: "The same week the fugitive and big-spending Republican Party contributor-on-the-lam known as 'Bobby Thompson' was captured in Portland, OR one of the recipients of 'Thompson’s' largesse, Michele Bachmann, endorsed another—Mitt Romney—for president."
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DCCC officially targets Kline
Capitol View: "The national campaign arm of Democrats in the U.S. House has officially put Republican U.S. Rep. John Kline's 2nd District seat in its sights. It has put his DFL opponent former state Rep. Mike Obermuller on the group's 'Red to Blue' list of possible districts to add to the Democratic column."
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Another Trip to Ottertrack
Boundary Waters Blog: "My story about Ottertrack sparked a memory for Ralph Griffis who used to own and operate Chik-Wauk Lodge at the end of the Gunflint Trail. His phone calls are always a treat and I welcome the interruption so I can take a trip back in time with Ralph."
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Tails tell the tale in the dispute over the Tax bill
Capitol View: "The biggest hang up in end of session budget negotiations between Gov. Dayton and GOP legislative leaders is the Tax bill."
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Handicapping Minnesota for 2012 county by county
Mark27: "Partisan loyalties seem to be in a constant state of flux as is the case in jurisdictions all across America and I thought it would be fun to handicap the election at a very specific county level for Minnesota in 2012 and see how close I get, dividing the counties into eight categories."
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Bowerbirds perform “Overcome With Light"
North Shore Sessions: "Bowerbirds perform 'Overcome With Light' and 'Brave World' in the warehouse district of downtown Minneapolis, off their latest release The Clearing."
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Franken vows to investigate Accretive Health
Capitol View: "A debt collection company accused of gathering too much sensitive patient information from Minnesota hospitals will be investigated by U.S. Sen. Al Franken."
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First nestlings at day 3
Penelopedia: "A moment before this photo was taken, they were all flopped down, but my camera made a little chime as it turned on, and the sound triggered their gaping reflex. They went from flopped to this position in the blink of an eye."
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Still Confused
Harry Legge's Cycling Blog: "What the Bike giveth the Bike taketh away. I still haven't figured it out, after all these years. Feel great ride like $h!t. Feel like $h!t ride great."
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Ron Paul outraising Romney in at least 10 states
Smart Politics: "The Texas Congressman makes large donor fundraising gains in a dozen states on the presumptive GOP nominee in Q1 2012."
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Ellison erases ‘retweet’ of nasty barb on Romney
Star Tribune: "Under fire from conservatives, Rep. Keith Ellison deleted a message on his Twitter account that repeated another Twitter follower’s reference to GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a 'douchebag.'"
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Op-Ed: The TSA’s mission creep is making the US a police state
Guardian: "The out-of-control Transportation Security Administration is past patdowns at airports – now it's checkpoints and roadblocks."
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Celestial Lights: The northern lights of Norway, Finland and Sweden
Ole Salomonsen: "Celestial Lights is my second video project. It is another stop motion based video about the northern lights. The video is shot in the northern parts of Norway, Finland and Sweden during autumn 2011, winter and spring 2012."
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Canada may close unique environmental research facility
"There is not a way to do whole ecosystem scale freshwater research anywhere else in the world. The work done there has been instrumental in our understanding of acid rain to endocrine disruption."
Forum on the News
MN-03 DFL candidate forum
A discussion with the two Minnesota Democrats vying for the DFL nomination and the chance to unseat Republican incumbent Erik Paulsen.
Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Dan Turpening's deep, wide devotion to the accordion
An accordion played outdoors evokes scenes of Paris in the springtime. Or, in the case of local accordion player Dan Turpening, Minneapolis in May.
From the Audio Archives
1973: Defining Irish
Dr. Eoin McKiernan talks about what it means to be Irish.
