Parsimonious twittery in the Minnesota Senate

January 30, 2021

And now in the House, too!

by Steve Timmer

Keith Downey takes a trip to a place long, long ago, and far, far away

March 25, 2014

The Mail Chimp, indeed

by Steve Timmer
Scribners 1880 Popular Vote

The Weekly Wrap 11-17

November 17, 2013

♣ The big story that dropped in last Sunday’s edition of the StarTribune was that the electronic campaign finance records curated by the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board were riddled with errors: About 7,000 records of donations between Minnesota groups are incorrect — an error rate of about one in seven. Electronic records […]

by Tony Petrangelo
Dave Thompson

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
Shelly at CPAC

The Weekly Wrap 3-22

March 22, 2013

Minnesota’s very own Michele Bachmann is the subject of much of the Wrap this week

by Tony Petrangelo

Who is Karma, and why is she so mean?

January 10, 2013

Asks Julie Rosen, plaintively

by Steve Timmer

What if you created a half a billion in debt

December 9, 2012

But nobody owed it?

by Steve Timmer
Paul Thissen speaks at microphone

The Weekly Wrap 11-9

November 9, 2012

What a week. As a reminder, you can check out all of the Minnesota results in detail at the LeftMN Election Results page(s). And now, on to the The Wrap™. ♣ The new DFL majorities have already elected their leadership. It comes as absolutly no surprise that Tom Bakk has been elected Senate Majority leader […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 5-26

May 26, 2012

There was a Solar Eclipse this week, once again proving that Copernicus was just chasing grant money

by Tony Petrangelo

All in the game, yuck

May 9, 2012

Like everything else important at the State Capitol, the final version of the Vikings stadium bill was decided behind closed doors, outside of the view of the public

by Aaron Klemz