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Mary Turck's blog

Seed art, Michele Bachmann and the State Fair

Seed art is a long tradition at the Minnesota State Fair. This year’s crop includes some pointed, political entries.

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Understanding Gaza

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"Truthiness" versus facts

by Mary Turck • 10/31/08 • "Truthiness" is something like truth--but not quite. Stephen Colbert invented the term in 2005, according to Wikipedia, to describe things that a person claims to know intuitively or "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts. Truthiness may be fun to kick around on late night TV, but it doesn't provide much basis for making decisions that affect the common good. For that, we need facts.MORE »
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Reporting on Molotov cocktails and government informants—or not

by Mary Turck • 10/23/08 • The Strib and the PiPress give strangely different accounts of an RNC-related guilty plea.

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Mayhem and the mainstream media

by Mary Turck, 10/2/08 • The media's job is to report the news, and that includes reporting inconvenient facts that contradict the "official stories" about the RNC.
This article was submitted to the Star Tribune in early October, in the vain hope that they would respond to the challenge made.MORE »
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U.S. Army at the RNC

by Mary Turck • 10/8/08 • Army Col. Michael Boatner admitted October 7 that active-duty U.S. military were sent to St. Paul for the Republican National Convention. Col. Boatner, the future operations division chief of USNORTHCOM, told Amy Goodman on Democracy Now that the army was "up there in support of the US Secret Service. We provided some explosive ordnance disposal support of the event." MORE »
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Guns and bombs and things that go boom in the night

by Mary Turck • 10/2/08 • Over the past month, both Sheriff Bob Fletcher and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman referred to "guns and bombs" that "anarchists" brought to the RNC. The massive local, state and federal security presence is credited by both men with saving the city of St. Paul from the people with guns and bombs. But who were these people and how many guns and bombs did they bring? MORE »
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How far for free speech?

by Mary Turck, 7/7/08 • "Stick your political correctness up your ass." So begins one of the comments we recently received (and posted.) We post almost every legit comment that we receive. By "legit," I mean comments that are not spam or advertising/self promotion. The very few that we refuse to post are overtly racist, probably libelous, or personal attacks of the "I know him personally and he is a crook/liar/shoplifter/child abuser" variety. MORE »
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Media Giraffe speaks

by Mary Turck, 6/4/08 • The Media Giraffe came to the Twin Cities today, talking about new pamphleteers and new reporters. What is this new media business? What's the difference between bloggers and reporters? Who gets to be a journalist? And what does a giraffe have to do with it? More than a hundred people gathered to talk and argue about the new media and our roles in it. As we head toward the National Media Reform Conference (beginning Friday), the pre-conference offers some new insights and information. MORE »
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NEWS DAY | MN health care votes and Michele Bachmann’s lei / MN Job Watch / Deer hunting, baiting, eating / Afghan cops, Taliban

By Mary Turck, News Day

Minnesota Democratic Reps. Tim Walz, Betty McCollum, Keith Ellison and Jim Oberstar voted in favor of the health care bill, while Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson and Republican Republican Reps. John Kline, Erik Paulsen and Michele Bachmann voted against it. Oberstar joined Peterson and the Republicans in voting to bar all abortion coverage from the bill. The abortion amendment, which passed, provides that people who receive federal insurance subsidies cannot buy insurance plans that include abortion coverage. MORE

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THEATER | Hardcover Theater's rollicking "She: Immortal Witch Queen of a Lost World"

By Matthew A. Everett, TC Daily Planet

With a title like She: Immortal Witch Queen of a Lost World, you know what you’re getting yourself into, if the theater company is doing its job right.  Hardcover Theater is definitely doing its job.  She is a rollicking good pulpy adventure tale, straight out of the best tradition of old B-movies.MORE »

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Stories we are working on

These are some of the stories we are working on. If you would like to contribute information or opinions, please e-mail the writers!

• Trader Joe What's with the new kid on the Twin Cities grocery scene? Tell sheila@tcdailyplanet.net what you think / like / dislike / wonder about Trader Joe. 

• St. Paul school superintendent The semi-finalists will be named this week, and the finalists by next week - any questions for them? Tell editor@tcdailyplanet.

• What's your story? Is there a story you'd like to write? Or a story you think we should be covering? Email editor@tcdailyplanet.netMORE »