Tag: minnesota politics
member name: Michael Caputo
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June 28, 2008 12:10 AM EDT --
Al Franken should take a seat with someone about the recent poll numbers that came out of Quinnipiac University .
It says that here in Minnesota, the . . .
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June 23, 2008 10:45 AM EDT --
Among the many items for sale at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds car show were magnets.
Some of them carried a message. None were subtle.
Just in case the Obamacons or Obamites or Obam-bams (or . . .
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January 15, 2008 09:38 AM EST --
Minnesota has one of the highest rates of binge drinkers. And young people are dying, just this morning comes a report of a North Mankato-area young man who died from what authorities suspect is alcohol . . .
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February 08, 2008 12:00 PM EST --
So it seems clear that most leaders in Minnesota want transportation improved. But the agreement stalls out soon after. Should we tax? Should we borrow?
Maybe, however, the question . . .
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July 01, 2008 06:14 PM EDT --
If you live in the Twin Cities – and those harsh winters – you feel some gratitude for the skyway system.
In St. Paul, they are vast and can get you around a fair chunk . . .
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January 15, 2008 05:21 PM EST --
The salt. The plowing. The winter. They take their toll on Minnesota roads. Then you have the complaints that not enough money is being spent on transportation infrastructure.
If you are a Minnesota . . .
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July 07, 2008 05:51 PM EDT --
My fellow Minnesota Gatherers:
In a few weeks you will see the press in MN (and outside too) looking at the I-35W bridge collapse and its affects on people.
There's nothing wrong with the . . .
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January 28, 2008 05:58 PM EST --
My dad used to tell me that the voting booth was a place to put up or shut up. He was mostly right. You have to cast a ballot to have a complaint.
But that's only part of the duty, really. You . . .
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February 20, 2008 11:38 AM EST --
I love when news and dialogue converge. And so it does on MPR's website - in this case it's a map where people who are part of our Public Insight Network are weighing in on a "political think" . . .
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September 11, 2008 10:15 AM EDT --
What happens when you ask Minnesotans to weigh in on an issue like the reopening of the I-35W Bridge? You get some pretty good stories.
For a few years now, Minnesota Public Radio news has . . .
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January 16, 2008 03:49 PM EST --
MN's tranportation spending woes go way beyond bridges. Read this story on potholes and the money that isn't being sunk into them.
Minnesota Public Radio's network of people like yourself . . .
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January 27, 2007 03:30 PM EST --
Immigrants arriving to these shores have always faced discrimination and the competing pressures of how to assimilate into the American culture vs. maintaining a cultural heritage.
But the experience . . .
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