The Weekly Wrap 8-31

August 31, 2013

♣ Sad news earlier this week. Minneapolis School Board member Hussein Samatar, pictured above, succumbed to leukemia on Sunday at the age of 45. Besides the family he leaves behind, Samatar’s legacy includes the African Development Center he founded, and whose mission is to: African Development Center works within the African communities of Minnesota to […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 8-24

August 24, 2013

The link to the image above came from Joe in the comments. Steve wrote a series of posts a couple weeks back about Twila’s latest episode of windmail tilting. In those posts a billboard sporting the above stockphoto featured prominently. Another reminder that in a capitalist society, everything is for sale, even angst. “Wait a […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 8-17

August 17, 2013

A light wrap this week

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 8-10

August 10, 2013

The Wrap™ took a week off last week. There were two reasons for this, 1) there wasn’t much Wrapy news last week and 2) the author was enjoying the summer. The Wrap™ is back this week though, ready to plumb the depths of Minnesota media for elections news and then provide hyperlinks and some snarky […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Ortman’s long position on equality

August 6, 2013

Ortman, the courts were not supposed to be available to the LGBT, and I want to be your U.S. Senator

by Jeff Wilfahrt

The Weekly Wrap 7-27

July 27, 2013

Kline under 50% and a possible game changer in the third

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 7-21

July 21, 2013

Talking money, candidates and lines on the map

by Tony Petrangelo

Minnesota House hPVI, 2013 edition

July 16, 2013

This post is part of a series of posts concerning hPVI. The first phase of this series involves the introduction of brand spanking new 2013 hPVIs. That phase, the first, is the one in which this post belongs. This part of the first phase, the third part, concerns the actual hPVIs for the Minnesota House. […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 7-13

July 13, 2013

After a week off, the Wrap returns to do it’s Wrap thing

by Tony Petrangelo

Minnesota Senate hPVI, 2013 edition

July 8, 2013

This post continues a series of posts concerning hPVI. The first phase of said series of posts involves the introduction of brand spanking new 2013 hPVIs. The first phase is the phase in which we currently find ourselves. All of this implies that this series will go through multiple phases. This part of the first […]

by Tony Petrangelo

hPVI 2013, a prelude

July 8, 2013

With the 2012 election in the books and the legislative session now over, it’s time to roll out the new edition of hPVI. Not to be confused with the actual New Edition. If you are unfamiliar with hPVI, this post goes into some detail about the metric itself, but here’s a short version. Partisan Voting Index (PVI) […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 6-29

June 29, 2013

♣ In news neither shocking or new at this point, Kurt Zellers last Sunday announced that he will in fact be running for Governor of Minnesota. This brings the total number of white male Republican candidates for Governor to three. ♣ Also not shocking but a little bit more new: Senator Dave Thompson also announced he […]

by Tony Petrangelo