by Staff
Published: January 29, 2010
Tags: 2008 Republican National Convention, Betsy Sundquist, Carol Connolly, Kevin Featherly, Minnesota Newspaper Association
A staff writer and a freelance writer for the St. Paul Capitol Report and Politics in Minnesota won first-place awards Thursday night in the Minnesota Newspaper Association's 2009-2010 Better Newspaper Contest.
by Staff
Published: April 9, 2009
Tags: 2008 Republican National Convention, press release, RNC Welcoming Committee, Susan Gaertner
In today’s Star Tribune, Ramsey County Attorney and 2010 DFL gubernatorial candidate Susan Gaertner editorialized about how the court system is stretched too thin to carry out its role dispensing justice. Then Paul Demko reported this morning that Gaertner’s office would soon drop 16 charges carrying "furtherance of terrorism" enhancements against the "RNC 8," a [...]
by Staff
Published: April 9, 2009
Tags: 2008 Republican National Convention, press release, RNC Welcoming Committee, Susan Gaertner
In today’s Star Tribune, Ramsey County Attorney and 2010 DFL gubernatorial candidate Susan Gaertner editorialized about how the court system is stretched too thin to carry out its role dispensing justice. Then Paul Demko reported this morning that Gaertner’s office would soon drop 16 charges carrying "furtherance of terrorism" enhancements against the "RNC 8," a [...]
by Staff
Published: March 9, 2009
Tags: 2008 Republican National Convention, ACLU, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, data practices, Don Betzold, intelligence, MDPA, privacy, Security
“Criminal intelligence data may be shared with: …(2) a law enforcement agency to charge a person with a crime or allege that a juvenile is delinquent…” That’s the best schoolmarm line from a wild new bill emanating from the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). One could imagine law enforcement wants to finally comb through all [...]
by Staff
Published: January 16, 2009
Tags: 2008 Republican National Convention
The RNC Public Safety Review Commission report (PDF / website), spearheaded by former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andy Luger, got presented to the St. Paul City Council on Wednesday evening. While many in the audience criticized the certitude of the former prosecutors in their determination that pretty much everyone doing [...]
by Staff
Published: January 13, 2009
Tags: 2008 Republican National Convention, Document, NORTHCOM
[This story was first posted in the Dec. 12, 2008 issue of the PIM Weekly Report; With the report spearheaded by former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andy Luger due at tomorrow's St. Paul City Council meeting, our readers might be interested in this unusual side of the larger RNC story; [...]
by Staff
Published: January 13, 2009
Tags: 2008 Republican National Convention, FBI
[This story was first posted in the January 9, 2009 issue of the PIM Weekly Report; With the report spearheaded by former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andy Luger due at tomorrow's St. Paul City Council meeting, our readers might be interested in this unusual side of the larger RNC story; [...]
by Charley Shaw
Published: September 12, 2008
Tags: 2008 Republican National Convention
Thirteen groups attached their names to a letter sent Thursday to two Minnesota DFL members of Congress calling for
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: September 10, 2008
Tags: 2008 Republican National Convention, Larry Craig, Minnesota Court of Appeals, Republicans, wide stance
In an effort to remove the adjective from his name, an attorney for disgraced U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, on Wednesday asked a Minnesota appeals court to throw out his plea of guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct, stemming from his widely publicized "wide stance"incident last year in a men’s restroom at Minneapolis-St. Paul [...]
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: September 10, 2008
Tags: 2008 Republican National Convention, Larry Craig, Minnesota Court of Appeals, Republicans, wide stance
In an effort to remove the adjective from his name, an attorney for disgraced U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, on Wednesday asked a Minnesota appeals court to throw out his plea of guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct, stemming from his widely publicized "wide stance"incident last year in a men’s restroom at Minneapolis-St. Paul [...]
