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About me

Erin is a Political Science major, a Media Studies minor, and a member of the class of 2014 at Macalester College. He is a Turkish/American dual national and grew up abroad, in the Philippines during his parents diplomatic service there.

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Far from gone: Graffiti in Hamline-Midway

By Erin Newton, TC Daily Planet

Tagged mailbox at Hamline and Thomas. (Photos by Erin Newton) 

Spraying graffiti on your own garage is not how most people would respond to tagging, but that’s just what Becky Johnson of Hamline-Midway did. 

On “the wall of illiteracy,” as she and her sons named it, they sprayed over previous vandals' graffiti with a message that she recalls as something like, “’Please don’t tag us unless you want to be shamed."

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Chris Tolbert Brings International Insights to St. Paul City Council Work

By Erin Newton, TC Daily Planet

Not many politicians can lay claim to development work abroad as an important stage in their journey to public service. Chris Tolbert, newly elected city councilmember for St.

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Conservatives at Macalester: Endangered Species Back from the Brink

By Erin Newton, TC Daily Planet

Mac GOP previous and future co-chairs Sam Brier (right) and Andrew Ojeda (left) lightheartedly highlight the progressive bias on campus with the help of First Year Oliver Kendall.

Andrew Ojeda

As the recently elected chair of the Minnesota GOP Pat Shortridge demonstrated, Macalester College, ranked by the Princeton Review in 2011 as having the most liberal student body of any college in

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Legislature Elections - 2012 - 7 County Metro Area (Suburbs)

By Erin Newton, TC Daily Planet

Here is a grid of all of the districts and positions on the ballot in the seven-county suburban area for 2012, their respective incumbents (if applicable), candidates (as they be

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Legislature Elections - 2012 - St Paul

By Erin Newton, TC Daily Planet

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