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“Who else could make falling down the stairs a funny story?” the Current’s Mary Lucia said of her interview with Studs Terkel.
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The wags have been suggesting in the last 24 hours that Norm Coleman must have internal polling showing he’s in trouble. The latest MPR/U of M Humphrey Institute poll, however, doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know: Coleman is in a close race with Al Franken and Dean Barkley is in a position to Read more →
Not since Jesse Ventura have we seen the kind of political theater that accompanies Rep. Michele Bachmann these days.
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News Agenda – Thursday October 30, 2008
Secretary of State Mark Ritchie is asking prosecutors to look into a phone call that Larry Johnson of St. Paul got from a woman questioning him about his voting record. According to Ritchie, who held a news conference this afternoon, the woman said she was working with Jeff Davis, who heads Minnesota Majority. This is Read more →
A Minnesota businessman says he didn’t mean to take advantage of the deaths of the family of Jennifer Hudson to push his product. But it obviously has turned out that way.