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Jun 2009
- Tuesday, June 30, 2009
  - My analysis of the Supreme Court's Franken-Coleman ruling | Eric Black
  - What Coleman said | Eric Black
  - Pawlenty will sign Senate election certificate today | Joe Kimball
  - BULLETIN: Norm Coleman concedes in Senate contest to Franken | Jay Weiner
  - Secretary of State Mark Ritchie is ready to sign | Eric Black
  - Election law maven Rick Hasen on the ruling | Eric Black
  - Official reactions from the party chairs | Eric Black
  - Coleman's reaction coming at 3 p.m. | Eric Black
  - Certificate is not specifically ordered | Eric Black
  - Here's the court's summary of the ruling | Eric Black
  - Here's the ruling | Eric Black
  - Bulletin: Ruling appears to be unanimous, for Franken. | Eric Black
  - Last-gasp legislative group offers anger, passion and a plea to stop budget cuts | Doug Grow
  - Bulletin: Franken Coleman ruling due | Eric Black
  - Taxpayers League assails sales tax increase for outdoors and arts | Joe Kimball
  - Owatonna officials worry they'll face even more LGA cuts later this year | Joe Kimball
  - Blue Earth commissioner nominated for federal post | Joe Kimball
  - Unallotment hearing, Part Two: You can watch right now | Jay Weiner
  - Gov. Pawlenty goes with the flow on Arkansas trip | Joe Kimball
  - Unallotment just a temporary fix; look out below for the next biennium | Joe Kimball
  - Daily Glean: Biennium blues grow as state goes from bad to worse | Max Sparber
  - Impatience in Coleman-Franken-land? | Eric Black
- Monday, June 29, 2009
  - Coleman-Franken contest: No decision again even as Politico wonders about money | Jay Weiner
  - High-speed rail headed to Midwest before California, Oberstar says | Joe Kimball
  - Legacy Act funds for outdoors and arts will help deliver treated waste water to ethanol plant | Joe Kimball
  - What's happened to all the Twins' bunt hits? | Aaron Gleeman
  - Coleman's campaign manager moves on and Pawlenty sounds a bit readier to sign | Eric Black
  - Unallotment means more weeds, less plowing in White Bear Lake | Joe Kimball
  - Iron Range legislator suggests campaign slogan for Pawlenty in 2012 | Joe Kimball
  - Daily Glean: As state shirks, nonprofits shrink | Max Sparber
  - Spooner, Wis., editorial declares Favre a virtual traitor 'stabbing Packer fans in the back' | Doug Grow
- Friday, June 26, 2009
  - Letter outlines changes in Pawlenty's unallotment plan | Joe Kimball
  - Crossing the Rubio-con: Another T'wolves 'draft gaffe'? Maybe not | Steve Aschburner
  - More meetings planned for Stillwater bridge project | Joe Kimball
  - Northeastern Minnesota airports get federal funds | Joe Kimball
  - Fun facts to know and tell about MN guv races | Eric Black
  - Track Hennepin County's stimulus funds with new website | Joe Kimball
  - Michele Bachmann's fears, and memories of Michael | Brian Lambert
  - Coleman-Franken contest: It's become a joke, Politico suggests | Jay Weiner
  - A mid-game surprise for Twins fans: baseball action, radio commercials ... and a 60-second 'sermonette' | Doug Grow
  - King of Pop is dead; long live that little kid from Gary | Jim Walsh
  - Moonwalk at lunch in downtown Minneapolis; bells will play MJ songs | Joe Kimball
- Thursday, June 25, 2009
  - Dem Guv's Association targets the MN 2010 race | Eric Black
  - Activist criticizes McCollum on health care reform, wants candidate to challenge her | Joe Kimball
  - Grantmakers pessimistic; grant-getters sad | Joe Kimball
  - Bill Murray shows his stripes; pushes stadium, skips mayor | Joe Kimball
  - LGA debate continues: group says last week's criticism was spin, not substance | Joe Kimball
  - Minnesota does poorly in financial disclosure laws for legislators | Joe Kimball
  - Coleman-Franken contest: State Supreme Court doesn't rule ... yet | Jay Weiner
  - Daily Glean: Keith Ellison's Mecca mess | David Brauer
  - Coleman-Franken ruling: Another Thursday, another wait, another who knows? | Jay Weiner
  - Will the next Coleman/Franken round be up to Justice Samuel Alito? | Eric Black
- Wednesday, June 24, 2009
  - Application season opens for a Minnesota federal judgeship | Eric Black
  - The next great threat takes over the world | By Eric Black
  - Two receive Nancy Award for improving well-being of young children | Joe Kimball
  - Minnesota close to losing a congressional seat after census | Joe Kimball
  - Update: Taxpayers League takes shot at Pogemiller; Senate staffer explains stand on ed funding | Joe Kimball
  - Religious groups plan 'march of lament,' saying budget cuts will 'harm poor and vulnerable' | Joe Kimball
  - What if Obama said he was "royally cheesed off" about Iran | Eric Black
  - Twins notes: Cover boy Mauer, promotions, delusions, bingo and false hustle | Aaron Gleeman
  - Daily Glean: Hecker and the 'f-word,' and a new House GOP leader | Brian Lambert
  - Suburban Rep. Laura Brod could be intriguing GOP candidate for governor | Doug Grow
- Tuesday, June 23, 2009
  - In Washington, GOP again raises possibility that Coleman would go to U.S. Supremes | Jay Weiner
  - Quick, can you name everyone who might run for gov? | Joe Kimball
  - Coleman-Franken contest: Some legal dollar signs from Coleman's side ... big $ signs | Jay Weiner
  - Teach for America program expands to Twin Cities | Joe Kimball
  - New Rochester airport terminal will cost $76 milion | Joe Kimball
  - Grandparent scam has savvy state inspector worried | Joe Kimball
  - Coleman-Franken recount: Will law allow a look at disputed ballots? | Jay Weiner
  - Fergus Falls area resorts see some effects of tough economy | Joe Kimball
  - KSTP wants to see the rejected absentee ballots and I get all weird and philosophical | Eric Black
  - Relief pitcher Luis Ayala is latest Twins free agent to flop | Aaron Gleeman
  - Daily Glean: KSTP: We want Senate fight's rejected absentee ballots | David Brauer
  - House GOP caucus to choose new minority leader tonight | Doug Grow
- Monday, June 22, 2009
  - Taxpayers League report card praises some Minnesota guv candidates, flunks others | Jay Weiner
  - Coleman-Franken recount: By the numbers, as we wait … | Jay Weiner
  - 2010 governor's race: A Facebook 'primary' is proposed | Jay Weiner
  - Biomass plant provides energy by burning renewable materials, including Cheerios waste | Joe Kimball
  - Hubbard Broadcasting and KSTP-TV get historic citation | Joe Kimball
  - Regions Hospital opens addition with 20 operating rooms | Joe Kimball
  - Jibjabbing Obama | Eric Black
  - Nancy Brataas to be honored as pioneer legislator | Joe Kimball
  - Daily Glean: Collin's coal compulsion corrodes climate bill | David Brauer
  - Pumping fresh water into Great Lakes agreement | Mark Neuzil
- Sunday, June 21, 2009
  - Happy Father's Day | Eric Black
- Friday, June 19, 2009
  - A short weekend read: Obama on Iran after Khamenei's warning | By Eric Black
  - Pawlenty's line about St. Paul's history of subsidies draws quick, barbed response | Joe Kimball
  - Center for Democracy and Citizenship moving from Humphrey Institute to Augsburg College | Joe Kimball
  - St. Paul to consider same-sex domestic partner registry | Joe Kimball
  - Armstrong-Quinlan house still in the news --- the NYT | Joe Kimball
  - Daily Glean: Norm's legal woes, deer in the headlights | Brian Lambert
- Thursday, June 18, 2009
  - Republican Rep. Kohls launches campaign for governor | Joe Kimball
  - Freedom Foundation continues attack on LGA | Joe Kimball
  - Minnehaha Creek cleanup July 12, starting with pancakes and ending with a free beer | Joe Kimball
  - Assessing the Twins' roster shuffling: Perkins for Crain, Pridie for Span | Aaron Gleeman
  - Coleman-Franken recount: Nothing from Supreme Court this morning | Jay Weiner
  - Duluth poll shows they like Mayor Don Ness | Joe Kimball
  - 'Un-road trip' uses 77+ modes of transport -- from camel to kayak -- but no cars | Mark Neuzil
  - Daily Glean: Hecker's hell extends to his customers | David Brauer
  - Coleman-Franken recount ruling: Today? Or not today? | Jay Weiner
  - Advance checklist for the MN Supremes' Franken-Coleman ruling | Eric Black
- Wednesday, June 17, 2009
  - The end of the T'wolves' McHale era: 8 things I learned today … and coaching candidates galore | Steve Aschburner
  - Get more info on Lafayette Bridge replacement Thursday | Joe Kimball
  - Daily Glean: A lot of unallotment | Brian Lambert
  - Reactions from just about everybody to Pawlenty unallotment plan | Joe Kimball
  - Coleman and Franken on same flight to D.C., tweet says | Joe Kimball
  - A new for-profit/nonprofit hybrid could be newspaper lifeline | Scott Russell
  - Tough times for Minnesota nonprofits, survey finds | Joe Kimball
  - Pawlenty's pre-presidential campaign ramps up: fundraising, donor meetings | Eric Black
- Tuesday, June 16, 2009
  - Update: Pawlenty opens the unallotment war -- let the battle ensue | Jay Weiner
  - With new coach, Wild players' looser style may come closer to their name | Pat Borzi
  - State considering whether Segways can go on state trails | Joe Kimball
  - New Mankato school will be named for Rosa Parks | Joe Kimball
  - Conservative foundation rips Mankato's complaints about LGA cuts | Joe Kimball
  - Daily Glean: Unallotment today, lawsuit tomorrow | David Brauer
- Monday, June 15, 2009
  - Gloria Steinem: 'We're only halfway there' | Susan Albright
  - Pawlenty plans Tuesday press conference on unallotment | Joe Kimball
  - Minneapolis assistant police chief recommended as Minnesota's U.S. marshal | Joe Kimball
  - Minnesota GOP chooses new chair, meets more guv candidates: Anderson, Kohls, Seifert, Sviggum | Joe Kimball
  - Some unallotment news coming this week, governor says | Joe Kimball
  - Anthony Swarzak's five-start debut for Twins closely mirrors minor league performance | Aaron Gleeman
  - Juan Cole's evidence that the Iranian election was stolen | Eric Black
  - Daily Glean: Cities, hospitals get their dose of TPaw pain this week | David Brauer
  - Netanyahu's speech and the meaning of "no preconditions" | Eric Black
- Friday, June 12, 2009
  - Chancellor: State's higher-ed system will need layoffs to handle unallotment cuts | Joe Kimball
  - Are the N.J. and Va. guv races 'harbingers'? | Eric Black
  - Physicians to address inequality in health care in lectures | Casey Selix
  - Hennepin commissioners wonder where transit hub will go | Joe Kimball
  - First Minneapolis, later the state? Court legalizes instant runoff voting | David Brauer
  - Some southern Minnesota agencies hope they are 'below the radar' when it's unallotment time | Joe Kimball
  - Here she comes to save the day! Supermom Sen. Ellen Anderson rescues kids' bikes | Joe Kimball
- Thursday, June 11, 2009
  - Bulletin: Brian Sullivan not running for Governor | Eric Black
  - Michele Bachmann on Fox Business Network at 5 p.m. | Joe Kimball
  - With 5 hires, Entenza wasting no time ramping up for DFL bid for governor | Doug Grow
  - Instant run-off voting supporters get their first choice: a Supreme Court victory | Joe Kimball
  - Ironworld in Chisholm gets new name: Minnesota Discovery Center | Joe Kimball
  - Governor's race 2010: Mark Ritchie is NOT running | Jay Weiner
  - Bad economy may help Minnesota State U in Mankato | Joe Kimball
  - TPaw and Hannity, and is Pawlenty a candidate of the gut? | Eric Black
  - Metro-area road and bridge stimulus projects approved | Joe Kimball
  - Daily Glean: Hecker and Petters and Norm. Oh my! | Brian Lambert
  - DFL leaders, others making plans to block Pawlenty 'unallotments' | Eric Black
- Wednesday, June 10, 2009
  - Former legislator Bill Haas is first Republican officially in governor's race | Joe Kimball
  - Competition heating up for fire station stimulus dollars | Joe Kimball
  - Bill comes due as court tells Coleman he owes Franken about $95K in court costs | Jay Weiner
  - More and more, state shifts higher-ed costs to students | Sharon Schmickle
  - Daily Glean: Car dealer rescue plan and Pawlenty admires Cheney | Brian Lambert
  - Twins draft Kyle Gibson, three other college pitchers | Aaron Gleeman
  - Old-fashioned sandwich-board advertising nixed in Chisholm | Joe Kimball
  - Pawlenty supports Tony Sutton for GOP party chair | Joe Kimball
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009
  - Could Coleman get a stay? | Eric Black
  - No unallotment until next week, or the next, Pawlenty says | Joe Kimball
  - Children's Hospital president worried about unallotment | Joe Kimball
  - Whiz-kid attorney will defend woman sued by record industry for downloading and sharing | Joe Kimball
  - MN Supremes who recused should be feeling good today | Eric Black
  - New Mankato school to be named either for John and Abigail Adams or Rosa Parks | Joe Kimball
  - Minnesota tax collectors working to track down cheaters | Joe Kimball
  - Daily Glean: Shelby hunts Jamaica scammers; psychoanalyzing Denny Hecker | Brian Lambert
  - Pawlenty on Obama's policies: "Horribly misdirected for our country" | Eric Black
- Monday, June 8, 2009
  - GOP activist says he'd protect voter privacy but wants unopened Coleman-Franken absentee ballots 'tabulated' | Jay Weiner
  - Coleman-Franken recount: GOP activist seeks to count unopened absentee ballots | Jay Weiner
  - Pawlenty: Rybak was just trash talking on Fox TV | Joe Kimball
  - Albert Lea paper: Next governor should not come from the metro area | Joe Kimball
  - Obama, Michael Medved and the CIA overthrow of democracy in Iran | Eric Black
  - Politico report: Experts say Norm doesn't have a prayer | Joe Kimball
  - DFL Sen.Tom Bakk gets in governor's race over weekend | Joe Kimball
  - Meeting today on burning more garbage next to Twins stadium | Joe Kimball
  - Daily Glean: Did Pawlenty skirt state law on legacy park? | David Brauer
  - The 3 types of nonprofits: velociraptors, tickbirds, viruses | Scott Russell
- Friday, June 5, 2009
  - Pawlenty continues to hone national Republican credentials in interview with Ripon Forum | Joe Kimball
  - R.T. on Fox TV: Pawlenty has no chance against Obama | Joe Kimball
  - Progressive groups want 'open and transparent' unallotment process | Joe Kimball
  - Comments from Republican contenders for governor | Joe Kimball
  - State Sen. Paul Koering might run for governor, saying 'outstate rural guy' would have appeal | Joe Kimball
  - Vin Weber on Obama: I hope he succeeds, but what if he fails? | Eric Black
  - Duluth mayor says he can cut $6.2 million deficit without job cuts or tax increases | Joe Kimball
  - Cars in the news: Hecker's Chapter 7, expensive freeway signs, road closures | Brian Lambert
  - A cultural scene grows in Minneapolis-St. Paul, and David de Young is watching ... | Jim Walsh
- Thursday, June 4, 2009
  - Unallotment can officially happen -- the letter has arrived | Joe Kimball
  - McHale getting squeezed in Timberwolves' power play | Steve Aschburner
  - Shouting and fist-shaking at Austin immigration protest | Joe Kimball
  - Obama's 'high risk' strategies up for discussion today at HHH forum | Joe Kimball
  - Pawlenty: "This is not the United States that we know and love" | Eric Black
  - David Schultz jumps into Ramsey County attorney race | Joe Kimball
  - Before the emerald ash borer, some exotic species were invited guests | Mark Neuzil
  - The Daily Glean: More (and more) names for Pawlenty's gig | Brian Lambert
- Wednesday, June 3, 2009
  - An unlikely merger? Daily newspapers come together on billboard at Saints stadium | Joe Kimball
  - Vikings stadium: How will Pawlenty's decision affect the future of the state's popular NFL franchise? | Jay Weiner
  - Baucus to single-payer health care advocates: Sorry I excluded you, but not sorry enough to include you | Eric Black
  - A top 10 list of Dem Guv hopefuls | Eric Black
  - Twins through two months: Pitchers | Aaron Gleeman
  - Legislators wonder about limiting unallotment powers | Joe Kimball
  - Democrats, too, respond to Pawlenty announcement of 'No more years' | Joe Kimball
  - Justice designee Sonia Sotomayor's Minnesota connection | Eric Black
  - Daily Glean: No three for T-Paw | David Brauer
  - New Hennepin County website roster tracks all prisoners | Joe Kimball
  - Tribute set for former Gov. Elmer L. Andersen | Joe Kimball
- Tuesday, June 2, 2009
  - Tim Pawlenty loves God, his wife and kids, the troops and Minnesotans | Eric Black
  - GOP names surface quickly as potential gubernatorial candidates | MinnPost staff
  - House Minority Leader Seifert wastes no time jumping in governor's race | Eric Black
  - Canadian border crossings not bogged down by new passport rule | Joe Kimball
  - Republican legislator lauded for reducing cuts to disabled | Joe Kimball
  - Sources saying Pawlenty will announce at 2 p.m. that's he not running for re-election | MinnPost staff
  - Daily Glean: Norm gets the worst of it, but is the worst yet to come? | David Brauer
  - Presidential candidates already active in Iowa. Has anyone seen Gov. Pawlenty? | Joe Kimball
  - Twins through two months: Mauer, Morneau lead team's six strong hitters | Aaron Gleeman
  - Blogger publishes leaked DFL unallotment talking points | Joe Kimball
- Monday, June 1, 2009
  - Minnesota House speaker Kelliher addresses graduates, disses governor | Joe Kimball
  - Rundown of Minnesota stimulus projects: big bucks for waste water treatment, highways and bridges | Joe Kimball
  - Supreme Court déjà vu today in Coleman-Franken oral arguments | Jay Weiner
  - Coleman, Franken face the Supremes, later, calmer post | Eric Black
  - St. Paul's first female district fire chief and a promotion for Dino Guerin | Joe Kimball
  - What's behind the sudden Mauer power? Here are the best theories | Pat Borzi
  - Daily Glean: Oral Fixation Day for Coleman-Franken recount | David Brauer
  - Rick Hasen suggests that Franken be seated provisionally if he wins this round | Eric Black
  - The Franken/Coleman oral arguments this morning: a couple of things to listen for | Eric Black

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