A Spotty for pointing out a feat of legerdemain

April 28, 2014

Alex Hindin’s letter discussing the Strib’s Lee Schafer’s recent feat of legerdemain earns him the coveted Spotty™. Lee Schafer (“They vote Republican in the land of equality,” April 20) achieved what should be impossible — an extended discussion of voting patterns and income equality that ignores the prime determiner of both in America: race. The […]

by Steve Timmer

The Weekly Wrap 4-27

April 27, 2014

♣ Last week US Senate hopeful Mike McFadden continued to build on his burgeoning record of avoiding taking any stands on any issues. This week another Republican running for US Senate, Chris Dahlberg, decided to call him out for that: “As I’ve listened to the comments of Mike McFadden during this campaign, I’ve been stunned […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Welcome to the town hall meeting!

April 22, 2014

Senator Melisa Franzen (SD49) and Representative Ron Erhardt (HD49A) held a mid-session town hall meeting at the Edina Community Center on April 21st. Addressing the young crowd in attendance, the two legislators described some of the accomplishments of the session thus far: the anti-bullying bill and the minimum wage bill. There was some discussion of […]

by Steve Timmer

The Weekly Wrap 4-20

April 20, 2014

Because I’m a terrible, no good blogger, I did not write about the recent SurveyUSA poll that was released concerning the approval ratings of Minnesota’s incumbent Governor and Senator, Mark Dayton and Al Franken. So I will do that in the wrap, as well as touch on other topics of interest to the Minnesota political […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Well, isn’t that sweet

April 17, 2014

Never you mind the protest, Condi

by Steve Timmer

The Weekly Wrap 4-13

April 13, 2014

Fundraising numbers for the first quarter of 2014 are starting to roll in, so that will occupy the majority of the space in The Wrap™ this week. Occupying some of the other space in The Wrap™ this week is; news concerning the races in a couple of Minnesota Congressional seats and polling results concerning a […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Archbishop and the boyz are leery of the Girl Scouts

April 11, 2014

Afraid that girls want to be more than empty vessels for some guy’s seed

by Steve Timmer

Let the little children suffer

April 9, 2014

By bringing them to me

by Steve Timmer

The Weekly Wrap 4-6

April 6, 2014

♣ American Encore sponsored a poll of the Minnesota Senate race, conducted by Magellan Strategies, that resembles the following: Magellan (4/2, no trend lines): Al Franken (D-inc) 44 Julianne Ortman (R) 41 Some other candidate 6 Undecided 9 Al Franken (D-inc) 44 Mike McFadden (R) 38 Some other candidate 6 Undecided 12 (MoE: ±3%) This […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Consider Roger Chamberlain

April 4, 2014

Lightly armed in the battle of wits

by Steve Timmer

Bullshit and bellow: Deformers aim to destroy traditional schools of education

April 4, 2014

It’s pretty clear from a recent broadside published over at the website MinnPost that, like teachers’ unions, the education deformers also want to destroy Minnesota schools of education. Written in classic conservative movement* bullshit and bellow form, the MinnPost story breathlessly reports the pass/fail rate in professional tests for graduated education students for schools across […]

by Rob Levine

In an apparent economy move

March 31, 2014

“I know, let’s get Doug!”

by Steve Timmer