by Charley Shaw
Published: January 20, 2010
Tags: Ann Lenczewski, House Taxes Committee, Tech, Tim Mahoney, Tim Pawlenty
Critics are piling on House Taxes Committee Chairwoman Ann Lenczewski's proposal to provide grants to angel investors.
by Staff
Published: July 14, 2009
Tags: Jeremy Kalin, Keith Downey, Office of Enterprise Technology, Ryan Winkler, Tech
[This was first published in the July 10, 2009 PIM Weekly Report.] It’s been interesting in tech news lately, with the pilfered Goldman Sachs program trading code and the widespread attacks on U.S. and South Korean websites dominating the news. Minnesota had its own tech shortcomings come to light via a legislative audit yesterday; Session [...]
by Staff
Published: May 6, 2009
Tags: data practices, Tech, transparency
PIM previously covered Rep. Paul Gardner’s (DFL-Shoreview) proposal (HF625) to implement Application Program Interfaces (APIs) in state accounting and procurement databases, an increasingly popular notion among open government advocates nationally. This PIM writer suggested to Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) that they might want to look at making APIs available because their “TAP” Web-based application [...]
by Staff
Published: January 23, 2009
Tags: budget, Minnesota 2009-10 budget, Minnesota budget deficit, Taxes, Tech, transparency, Web2.0
[This article was originally published in the January 23rd, 2009 issue of the PIM Weekly Report.]PIM staff has been getting a kick out of the new transparency tack out of Washington, specifically President Barack Obama’s instruction to federal agencies to release more information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). [We've been following new presidential [...]
by Staff
Published: August 19, 2008
Tags: PIM Website, Republican National Convention, RNC, Tech
It’s been a little quiet on our front page, but behind the scenes we are working on re-engineering PoliticsInMinnesota.com to handle our coverage of the Republican National Convention. We’ll be joined by the team of our sister publication, the Saint Paul Legal Ledger Capitol Report. Reporters from our southwestern counterpart, the Arizona Capitol Times, will also [...]
by Staff
Published: July 29, 2008
Tags: 2008 MN House Campaigns, Tech
The PIM staff has completed our 2008 Minnesota House Races index, and we’ve reviewed the good, the bad and the ugly campaign websites. The bad, the ugly and the funky: Tim Hafvenstein, GOP challenger to 8A’s Rep. Bill Hilty (DFL-Finlayson), has a virtually unmodified Microsoft Frontpage template (hafvensteincampaign.com). Besides the title, it’s totally [...]
by Staff
Published: August 15, 2007
Tags: Al Franken, censorship, Diebold, Fox News, history, Media, MN-Sen, Norm Coleman, Public Relations, Tech, US Senate Campaign 2008, voting machines, wikiality, Wikipedia
Wired magazine reported yesterday that CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith matched every one of the millions of ‘anonymous edits’ on the popular reference website Wikipedia to the organizations where the edits originated. Every anonymous Wiki edit created an IP address record, and he simply matched those IP addresses to available lists of who controls them. [...]
by Staff
Published: August 15, 2007
Tags: Al Franken, censorship, Diebold, Fox News, history, Media, MN-Sen, Norm Coleman, Public Relations, Tech, US Senate Campaign 2008, voting machines, wikiality, Wikipedia
Wired magazine reported yesterday that CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith matched every one of the millions of ‘anonymous edits’ on the popular reference website Wikipedia to the organizations where the edits originated. Every anonymous Wiki edit created an IP address record, and he simply matched those IP addresses to available lists of who controls them. [...]
