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Minnesota's election system after two recounts
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Apr 25Best Buy will go public with results of 'inappropriate relationship' investigation
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Some great 'Walking' songs for prime walking season
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Apr 27We’re in prime “charity walk” season, with events big and small on many spring and summer weekends.OAS_AD("Middle");So, pick a cause you like and get moving.Next weekend, for example, is the 38th annual Walk for Animals. And there are plenty more walki... »
Minnesota's election system after two recounts
MinnpostHighQuality Journalism For People Who Care About Minnesota
Apr 25After Minnesota took eight excruciating months to decide that Al Franken had beaten Norm Coleman in the 2008 U.S. Senate race, followed by the close (but not nearly as close as Coleman-Franken) 2010 gubernatorial race which resulted in a recount and ra... »
Best Buy will go public with results of 'inappropriate relationship' investigation
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Apr 12Few things fire a news cycle like the words, “inappropriate relationship.” Never mind EBITDA; now we’re talking something everyone thinks they understand. The Strib’s Thomas Lee is leading the pack on the latest about ex-Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn. This m... »
Walter Mondale, author Ira Shapiro team up in praise of ‘The Last Great Senate’
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Apr 12It was a “once-upon-a-time’’ afternoon at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, featuring Walter Mondale and Ira Shapiro.Shapiro’s recently published book, “The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis,’’ is creating a bit of a... »
Obama sees biggest divide since Johnson-Goldwater
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Apr 11President Barack Obama said Tuesday the choice facing voters this November will be as stark as in the milestone 1964 contest between Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater — one that ended up with one of the biggest Democratic landslides in history. »
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Some great 'Walking' songs for prime walking season
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Apr 27We’re in prime “charity walk” season, with events big and small on many spring and summer weekends.OAS_AD("Middle");So, pick a cause you like and get moving.Next weekend, for example, is the 38th annual Walk for Animals. And there are plenty more walki... »
Which party is getting more extreme?
True North
Apr 26Democrats want to paint Republicans as wild-eyed conservative extremists, but are Republicans or Democrats moving faster toward their ideological poles? Not even the Democrats who have tried to make this case repeatedly since 2009 can keep their stori... »
Minnesota's election system after two recounts
MinnpostHighQuality Journalism For People Who Care About Minnesota
Apr 25After Minnesota took eight excruciating months to decide that Al Franken had beaten Norm Coleman in the 2008 U.S. Senate race, followed by the close (but not nearly as close as Coleman-Franken) 2010 gubernatorial race which resulted in a recount and ra... »
Murdoch attacks voting rights
Mercury Rising
Apr 18…of his own shareholders. It’s FT content, which is sacred and must not be quoted, but to summarize, Rupert has discovered that broadcasting law mandates that 75% of control of US stations must be by Americans. But foreigners own 36% of NewsCorp voting... »
Pumping iron: how the financial system affects stock prices
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Apr 17Barry Ritholtz has an interesting graph from Michael R. Rosenberg of Bloomberg that shows how financial conditions affect stock prices. In brief: The Bloomberg U.S. Financial Conditions Index combines yield spreads and indices from U.S. Money Markets, ... »