Voter restriction news digest: signs and wonders; or, by their works ye shall not know them
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A devout Methodist friend passed along a photo his daughter snapped while driving down University Avenue in Coon Rapids. Continue Reading
#UnleashTheLion: final Walz-Quist debate creates great hashtag; Quist fears Obamacare will lead to more spree shootings
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Reports about last night’s Walz-Quist debate are in from state and district media venues.
Hot button: Frac sand mining concerns raised in Minnesota and Wisconsin candidate forums
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While some city, county and township governments faced with corporate proposals to mine frac sand in Minnesota have enacted interim ordinances (moratorium) in order to address health, safety, traff Continue Reading
Senate District 22: Out-of-state calls ask voters which candidate has most “American-sounding” name
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Despite the fact that “Thaóyate Dúta” or “Wanbdi Upi Dúta” are the sort of names most accurately called “American-sounding” in Southern Minnesota, an out-of-state phonebank has be Continue Reading
Minnesota Majority’s Dan McGrath inaccurately implied ID petition for variance free, misled on vouching
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In last night’s Debate Minnesota forum between Minnesota Majority executive director Dan McGrath and ISAIAH Project executive director Doran Schrantz, McGrath made two curious claims about the peti Continue Reading
In the land of pilfered yard signs, Lyndsay Whalen’s placards stay planted
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A couple of days ago, I’d tweeted something about yard signs in Hutchinson and Gregg Litman, a producer at WCCO 4, tweeted back
Frac sand, Bakken and Ackman: the DM&E’s fate in Canadian Pacific Rail’s December strategic plan
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What will be the DM&E Railroad’s fate when the Canadian Pacific releases a strategic plan promised for December?
All the Archbishop’s Men: Using a Faribault grade school to deliver a Vote Yes message
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As the election approaches, we’ll be seeing more emotional gut punches in the marriage restriction debate–and more vital conversations about love and family. In Faribault right now, people a Continue Reading
Minnesota EQB to hear business community testimony on frac sand mining Wed. Sept. 19
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The Minnesota Environmental Quality Board has posted the proposed agenda for its Wed., September 19, 1:00-4:00 p.m. Continue Reading
Austin neo-Nazi Sam Johnson sentenced to 15 years in prison for possessing assault rifle
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Austin neo-Nazi Sam Johnson, whom Bluestem interviewed during the period he was holding anti-immigration rallied in the Mower County meat-packing town, was sentenced to 15 years in prison yesterday Continue Reading