Bob Collins
Target Corporation’s funding of Mn Forward, a political action group that’s advertising in support of Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, may be affecting the company internally more than externally.
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David Cazares
Mark Dayton shelled out $28,000 to social media consultant Nicole Harrison this year, according to MPR’s Tom Scheck. What does $28,000 buy a candidate for governor? Is he listening to the expensive advice? Well, let’s see. Dayton hasn’t sent a message on Twitter since March (and it was a banal tweet at that): Dayton appears Read more →
Is there a penalty when a popular business chooses sides in a political debate? Maybe. But, apparently not a big one.
An opponent of Tom Emmer did the embattled Republican gubernatorial candidate a big favor by diverting attention from the minimum wage issue, and replacing it with the immigration issue.
A Nevada woman’s obituary afford’s one last chance to speak ill of a politician she didn’t like.
It appears that Tom Emmer gubernatorial campaign is giving up on the minimum wage controversy, after it inexplicably kept it alive over the last week, even after it clearly was damaging the Republican politically.
The controversy surrounding Tom Emmer’s comments on the minimum wage is what happens when politicians don’t have specific proposals for voters to consider.
With just a month left until Primary Election Day and four months to go until the mid-term elections, a sad reality is making itself more obvious for people who use the Internet to follow political news: This campaign season is one of the worst for innovation in political coverage.
dgaraets
Tom Bodett would not be happy with Brainerd, Minn. The City Council there voted to keep about a quarter of the city’s 1,600 streetlights dark, despite complaints from many residents.
When the Star Tribune referred to a race between two women as “red hot,” what did it mean?