by Steven B. Young
Published: September 21, 2009
Tags: Barack Obama, GOP, politics, protest
We need to protect Minnesota from the new primitivism creeping all around us focusing its paranoia on President Obama.
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: June 2, 2009
Tags: Minnesota, politics, Tim Pawlenty, Wikipedia
It took Wikipedia.org hardly any time at all today to update its entry on Gov. Tim Pawlenty. "Timothy James Pawlenty (born November 27, 1960) is the 39th and current governor of Minnesota and a Republican," the first paragraph of Pawlenty’s Wikipedia bio reads. "In the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 2002, he was elected governor and was [...]
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: June 2, 2009
Tags: Minnesota, politics, Tim Pawlenty, Wikipedia
It took Wikipedia.org hardly any time at all today to update its entry on Gov. Tim Pawlenty. "Timothy James Pawlenty (born November 27, 1960) is the 39th and current governor of Minnesota and a Republican," the first paragraph of Pawlenty’s Wikipedia bio reads. "In the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 2002, he was elected governor and was [...]
by Bill Clements
Published: April 24, 2009
Tags: Bakk, Minnesota Legislature, Pawlenty, politics, Taxes
Gov. Tim Pawlenty late this afternoon issued a letter to members of the Minnesota Senate slamming the Senate omnibus tax bill, S.F. 2074, calling it
by Bill Clements
Published: April 24, 2009
Tags: Bakk, Minnesota Legislature, Pawlenty, politics, Taxes
Gov. Tim Pawlenty late this afternoon issued a letter to members of the Minnesota Senate slamming the Senate omnibus tax bill, S.F. 2074, calling it
by Steve Perry
Published: January 16, 2009
Tags: Minnesota budget deficit, politics, Tax Foundation, Tim Pawlenty
A few quick points about the Tax Foundation, the organization whose numbers Tim Pawlenty cited yesterday when he proclaimed that "if Minnesota were a country, we’d have the third highest business tax rates in the world" and called for a 50 percent cut in the state’s corporate tax rate: Dating to 1937, it’s "the oldest nonprofit [...]
by Steve Perry
Published: January 16, 2009
Tags: budget, Minnesota budget deficit, politics, Tim Pawlenty
Watching GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s 2009 state of the state address was like being wrenched back in time a year, to a moment when Pawlenty was actively auditioning for higher office and the state was not facing a projected $5 billion-plus in deficits. Comprising equal parts feel-your-pain sentimentalism and cold-blooded fiscal brinksmanship, the speech was [...]
by Steve Perry
Published: January 16, 2009
Tags: Minnesota budget deficit, politics, Tax Foundation, Tim Pawlenty
A few quick points about the Tax Foundation, the organization whose numbers Tim Pawlenty cited yesterday when he proclaimed that "if Minnesota were a country, we’d have the third highest business tax rates in the world" and called for a 50 percent cut in the state’s corporate tax rate: Dating to 1937, it’s "the oldest nonprofit [...]
by Steve Perry
Published: January 16, 2009
Tags: budget, Minnesota budget deficit, politics, Tim Pawlenty
Watching GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s 2009 state of the state address was like being wrenched back in time a year, to a moment when Pawlenty was actively auditioning for higher office and the state was not facing a projected $5 billion-plus in deficits. Comprising equal parts feel-your-pain sentimentalism and cold-blooded fiscal brinksmanship, the speech was [...]
by Bill Clements
Published: September 1, 2008
Tags: 2008 Republican National Convention, Columbia University, David Broder, Matt Cooper, Plame, politics
I was standing in Rice Park Monday afternoon, waiting to go into the Xcel Center for a bit of the RNC, when a burly guy sweating in a banker’s gray suit walked by. He stopped, and I noticed that he was holding a microphone, then saw a cameraman following him
