by Sarah Janecek
Published: March 18, 2010
Tags: Al Franken
The Washington Post has a lengthy profile of U.S. Sen. Al Franken this morning. The premise of the story is that by initially suppressing his funny side in the Senate, he's erupted in myriad ways.
by Kevin Featherly
Published: March 17, 2010
Tags: Al Franken, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Star Tribune
It’s a great idea that’s going down in flames. Ty Heimerl, 15, a junior at New Prague High School, wanted to write a story for the University of St. Thomas’ ThreeSixty Journalism website about kids who text while driving.
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: Al Franken, Betsy Sundquist, home foreclosure crisis, M&I Bank
Sooner or later, you’re going to become a statistic. At some point in your life, you could find yourself in an automobile accident. You might get cancer, or be struck by lightning. You might win a game show, or the lottery, or be elected to political office. My husband and I became statistics last year. We held one of the 23,019 mortgages in Minnesota that were foreclosed in 2009.
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: January 19, 2010
Tags: Al Franken, Dick Day, Jason Engbrecht, Michele Bachmann, Mike Parry, Roy Srp
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has endorsed Republican Mike Parry to fill retiring state Sen. Dick Day's seat.
by Sarah Janecek
Published: December 22, 2009
Tags: Al Franken, Lauren Gilchrist
Today's news gem in national media was delivered via the Washington Post and includes some great quotes from Lauren Gilchrist, top health care policy aide to Sen. Al Franken.
by Steve Perry
Published: December 18, 2009
Tags: Al Franken, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, U.S. Senate
Minnesota's junior U.S. senator, Al Franken, got to take a turn in the President of the Senate's chair yesterday, and he made himself a YouTube hit with cheering Democratic blogs and jeering Republican ones when he cut off Connecticut Sen. (and former Democrat turned independent) Joe Lieberman during a Senate floor debate on health care yesterday.
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: November 2, 2009
Tags: Al Franken, Franni Franken
Since her husband announced his plan in early 2007 to challenge then-Sen. Norm Coleman for his Senate seat, Franni Franken has found herself frequently in the spotlight, not just at home in Minnesota but internationally.
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: October 27, 2009
Tags: Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, Northwest Airlines
The licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots involved in last week's "overflying" incident were revoked today by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a day after Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., called for a ban on using laptop computers in airline cockpits.
by Bob Geiger
Published: October 26, 2009
Tags: advertising, Al Franken, American Advertising Federation, American Association of Advertising Agencies, marketing, prescription drugs, tax deduction
Franken and several Democratic Senate colleagues have introduced a bill that would eliminate the federal tax deduction for spending on prescription drug advertising and marketing expenses.
by admin
Published: October 20, 2009
Tags: Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, Erik Paulsen
It looks like there's some bipartisan agreement in the debate over health care reform after all.
At least three members of Congress from the Land of 10,000 Lakes have come out against a $4 billion annual fee on medical device makers. The fee was approved by the Senate Finance Committee last week as part of a national health insurance overhaul.
