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March 11, 2008 09:49 AM EDT --
Would you risk your family? Your reputation? If you were a politician, would you risk your family, your reputation, your political career? NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been linked to prostitution . . .
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July 13, 2009 10:31 AM EDT --
Throughout the day today and tomorrow and perhaps Wednesday, MPR is broadcasting Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, paying special attention to the . . .
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June 04, 2009 10:21 AM EDT --
President Barack Obama gave a much-anticipated speech in Cairo, Egypt, today. Listen to a rebroadcast at 12 p.m. CDT on Midday on MPR or streaming online and add your comments here.
Obama called for . . .
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June 01, 2009 10:06 AM EDT --
Listen to the Minnesota Supreme Court hearing live on MPR and add your comments below.
After more than two years of campaigning, running, and recounting, Norm Coleman and Al Franken this morning find . . .
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June 30, 2009 02:53 PM EDT --
MPR's Elizabeth Baier and Elizabeth Stawicki reported Tuesday that Republican Norm Coleman conceded the Minnesota Senate race, shortly after the Minnesota Supreme Court made public their unanimous . . .
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June 16, 2009 10:28 AM EDT --
MPR's Tom Scheck reported this morning that governor Tim Pawlenty is slated to announce his cuts to balance the Minnesota budget today. He plans to use his emergency authority, unallotment, to balance . . .
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October 09, 2006 10:38 AM EDT --
Mark Dayton's (D) decision not to seek re-election has left open a seat on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Hoping to fill that seat are Amy Klobuchar (D) and Mark Kennedy (R).
Amy Klobuchar (D) . . .
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January 17, 2007 10:30 AM EST --
As the poor get poorer and the rich get richer, will the politics in the US look more like the politics in Venezuela?
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October 21, 2008 05:46 PM EDT --
With just 14 days to election day, and absentee ballots already being processed in the state of Minnesota, the race for Paul Wellstone's Senate seat is being closely watched - locally and nationally . . .
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September 11, 2006 11:28 AM EDT --
10. Pay attention! Get the facts.
9. Volunteer. There are many ways you can volunteer and more than one is bound to be a good fit for you.
8. Write! Write to your local . . .
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July 24, 2007 12:58 PM EDT --
Ever since the demise of the Immigration Bill, political strategists have been trying to find a way to either capitalize on the changing spectrum of the Hispanic vote or figuring out how to get it back! . . .
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March 17, 2009 09:16 AM EDT --
From The Political and Financial Markets Commentator
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Rush Limbaugh: Titular Head Of The Republican Party?
All Hail The King
Now for full disclosure I listen to Rush, . . .
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October 16, 2006 02:35 PM EDT --
I wouldn't recommend anything that I am not willing to try myself. So I decided that I would try the "Select a Candidate"quiz offered on Minnesota Public Radio's Web site. . . .
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April 08, 2008 10:20 AM EDT --
Can you fill your gas tank in your car with no financial worries, can you buy the food you used to with no problems, do you go out to dinner or show or movie as you would like to, or as often as you used . . .
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June 29, 2008 07:46 PM EDT --
If one likes the fact that the dollar has lost somewhere around 35% of its value in the last seven years.
Or if one likes the idea of going to war on pretentious acts.
Or if one can't tell the . . .
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September 06, 2006 10:55 AM EDT --
Kudos to everyone who will get out and vote in the mid-term elections. Some folks do not think it is important to vote; evident in the percentage of the population that does not vote. . . .
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September 13, 2006 04:13 PM EDT --
Jim Ramstad (R) has been a congressman in Minnesota's third district since 1990. Prior to that he served three terms in the Minnesota Senate where he was Assistant Minority Leader. Is it time . . .
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December 08, 2006 11:56 AM EST --
He ran for president of the United States in 1972 and 1976. He ran for congress in 1940 as a Democrat and never lost a congressional election. After that he ran for one of the Senate seats in the state . . .
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September 04, 2007 01:46 PM EDT --
As the Republican Party conducted a virtual firing squad style expulsion of Idaho Senator Larry Craig from their ranks for his indiscretions, I was reminded of a line from the 1998 movie Lost in Space . . .
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May 13, 2008 10:09 AM EDT --
I don't believe in "Global Warming".
No, not at all.
I've read some interesting studies about carbon forcing and others that suggest the whole thing is overblown, but at least . . .
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