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Adam Minter

St. Louis Park, MN
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Posted on 03/03/13 at 08:18 am in response to Shattuck-St. Mary's linked to student in gang-rape outraging Chinese public

Ms. Wolf's comment that "we do not share information about any student" would be much easier to accept if not for the fact that China's Xinhua news service cites and quotes Shattuck's Father Henry Doyle on Li's character and behavior. Significantly, those comments have been backed up my former classmates of Li's using Chinese social media. As noted in our article, Father Doyle denied speaking to Xinhua.

Posted on 09/08/12 at 10:53 pm in response to Romney fights Cold War, Obama fights not to overreach

Hayes asks: "Would the tariffs apply to the Chinese manufacturing companies in which Bain Capital invested?"

Yes. The countervailing duties imposed as a result of a determination of currency manipulation by a President are automatic, across-the-board, and punitive.

Would have been nice if Hayes had used some critical thinking and actually looked into the facts behind the rhetoric rather than waste everyone's time by trying to score a really cheap and totally irrelevant...

Posted on 08/14/12 at 04:01 am in response to Cases of voter-ID election fraud found 'virtually non-existent'

What an ugly and ignorant comment. The Constitution of the United States affirmatively guarantees - four times! - "the right of every citizen to vote" via the 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th amendments - each of which is designed to protect or expand that right against state encroachments.

Posted on 07/29/12 at 12:34 am in response to Like many American consumers, Delta Air Lines is paying down its debt

Good on Delta for reducing its debt, but I'd bet a first class ticket between MSP and DTW that they'll be selling off that oil refinery within the next five years. Oil refineries are successful when they charge as much as possible for their product; airlines are successful when they pay as little as possible for fuel. So what's Delta going to do? Run an unprofitable oil refinery? Hedge against itself?

Posted on 06/19/12 at 01:29 am in response to KFAN’s Paul Allen takes sports blogging up a notch

It's funny, in what's supposed to be the post-blogging twitter age, PA is writing one of the most genuinely interesting sports blogs that I can recall. The observations on sports are really good, obviously but what makes the read so interesting, and so curious, is how personal he can become at times. It's what keeps me coming back, I suppose, in the same way that people don't read Bill Simmons only because the sports writing is so good, but because they feel it with him. I'm not sure why...

Posted on 12/22/11 at 10:32 pm in response to Should the media report Brodkorb rumors in Koch scandal?

Kind of reminiscent of 1998 and the week or so during which Drudge was running the Lewinsky story before everybody else. Everybody in D.C. was reading Drudge, everybody knew about the affair, but it took a week or so before the MSM - represented by Michael Isikoff of the Post/Newsweek - actually wrote it. I can't remember the details of what proof, exactly, Isikoff had that wasn't in Drudge's hands. But I do recall how ridiculous the situation was - here was Drudge, publishing a story that...

Posted on 12/07/11 at 10:58 pm in response to Pioneer Press, MPR might be getting Star Tribune's web traffic

I subscribed to the digital edition, and I feel like I'm getting my money's worth. I don't live in the Twin Cities, anymore, but I like to keep up on the local and especially sports news. If your only options for MN sports news are online, then the Strib is the leader by a wide margin. I'd probably pay the digital fee for just that. But since I'm on the Strib's site, anyway, I go from Sports and poke around some of the other sections. I might go to MPR if someone I follow on twitter sends me...

Posted on 12/03/11 at 12:34 am in response to Two new Hüsker Dü books as complicated and difficult as the band itself

Reviews of books about rock musicians are curious things. Are they about the critic writing the review, or are they about the books themselves? And from the author's perspective, which of these offers the greater opportunity to show that the critic knows more about the band in question than the authors? Ideally you'd strive to take both approaches, but this may lead to an overly long, self-indulgent review.

So, the first half of the review is about how wrong Earles is in his critical...

Posted on 11/03/11 at 06:45 pm in response to Luring 'server farms': Minnesota targets a burgeoning industry that actually likes the cold

Terrific article that other Minnesota news organizations will be jumping on shortly. Reminds me why I donate to you folks.

As for DEED - shame on them. If a state agency charted with economic development isn't aware of opportunities like this one, I really don't understand the point of funding it. What are they doing over there? Other than not answering the phones.

Posted on 10/25/11 at 08:15 am in response to Star Tribune will start charging some readers for web, app access Nov. 1

David -

The thing that jumped out at me from this story is the sourcing. You attribute it to "officials," presumably at the request of your sources. Could you give us a sense as to why those sources would request such a high level of anonymity? Compare their tags to the "people familiar with internal deliberations" and the "personal friend of Sulzberger" who provided info to New York for this piece in advance of the new NYT paywall:

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