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Times Writers Group: Today, my thanks rests in faith

Today we celebrate Thanksgiving. Some of us still honor the Pilgrims and their struggles for freedom of religion, while others accept that Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims are an American myth.

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Fri Nov 27, 2009

MinnPost.com

IP bans cross-endorsement

At its state convention on Saturday in Brooklyn Park, the Independence Party of Minnesota changed its rules to end an experiment with cross-endorsement. The vote was an overwhelming 80-20 to grant IP endorsement only to candidates who are exclusively committed to running as IPers, the party's State Chair Jack Uldrich told me yesterday.

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Wed Nov 25, 2009

HometownSource

Congressmen Paulsen, Walz call for repeal of nuclear ban

Third District Congressman Erik Paulsen, R-Eden Prairie, and First District Congressman Tim Walz, DFL-Mankato, appeared at a Capitol today , joined by state lawmakers, business and labor leaders, to push for the repeal of the moratorium.

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Mon Nov 23, 2009

HometownSource

Independence Party will no longer cross-endorse candidates

Independence Party of Minnesota delegates at its recent state convention in Brooklyn Park voted to throw out the recent practice of candidate cross-endorsement. That is, the IP will no longer endorse candidates that do not belong to the party - recent 6th District DFL congressional candidate El Tinklenberg was quick to mention that he carried both ...

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Sun Nov 22, 2009

TwinCities.com

Campaign program axed by Pawlenty aided GOP donors

Gov. Tim Pawlenty's Republican Party was the biggest user of a campaign program he axed that gives donors tax refunds for part of their contributions.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

Star Tribune

Minn. GOP biggest user of tax break Pawlenty axed

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Gov. Tim Pawlenty's Republican Party was the biggest user of a campaign program he axed that gives donors tax refunds for part of their contributions.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

West Metro

police blotter

WEEK OF OCT. 12 Drunken driving . Someone reported a vehicle in a ditch on Engler Boulevard near Hwy.

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Fri Nov 13, 2009

Star Tribune

Cop: With boys in car, drunken Monticello mom fled

Monica Say of Monticello was stopped with her boys ages 2 and 4 in the back seat and a .21 blood-alcohol level, police say.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

TwinCities.com

Police: Mom arrested after chase with two kids in car and open bottle of rum in diaper bag

Monica Mary Margaret Say A woman had her two children in the car, ages 2 and 4, and an open bottle of rum in a diaper bag when she led police on a chase last week in western Hennepin County, police said today.

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Star Tribune

Charges: Drunk Twin Cities mom with 2 kids in car leads cops on 4-mile chase

With an uncapped bottle of rum in the diaper bag and her two little ones in the car with her, a drunken driver led police on a 4-mile-plus chase through traffic in western Hennepin County before she pulled over and was arrested, authorities said this afternoon.

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HometownSource

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Republican representative Jim Ramstad easily won re-election to the U.S. Congress in Minnesota 3rd District.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

MinnPost.com

All DFL guv candidates back gay marriage: A wedge issue in the making?

Will Minnesota's 2010 race for governor be the next referendum on gay marriage? That's an oversimplification, because there will be many very clear issue differences in that race, especially in the general election.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press

Somewhere, the next Jesse Ventura might be waiting

While a large pack of Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates has roamed across Minnesota for months clamoring for attention, the state's third and smallest "major party," the Independence Party, has yet to field a single credible contender.

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Mon Nov 02, 2009

Star Tribune

Rybak, Kolstad debate property taxes, city regulation

Minnesota bridges rated: An interactive map of bridges that are "structurally deficient," "functionally obsolete" or have gusset plates like those on the I-35W bridge.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

Minnesota State University, Mankato, ...

Exploring the world through film

Casella is on sabbatical in Northern Ireland studying films from the silent era and attending various film festivals.

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Mon Oct 12, 2009

Star Tribune

Fundraising numbers in the 6th District

The Democrats trying to win their party's endorsement to run against Republican U.S. Rep.

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Sun Oct 04, 2009

Star Tribune

GAO report poses tough questions for ethanol

Ethonel another goverment boondoogle forced down out throats Lowers mileage, lower performance, highly corrosive, raises food prices , read more puts more land into production that was not farmed in the past, Raises price of fuel overall What a wondrful deal and I am forced to pay higher taxes for this great benefit Minnesota business by the ...

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Mon Sep 28, 2009

The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press

Independent candidates taking aim at governor races a " could Minnesota be one of them?

Fomer Independence Party candidate Tim Penny concedes the gubernatorial race at the Mall of America in 2002.

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Thu Sep 24, 2009

The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press

On not taking democracy, and those who guard it, for granted

Even here in the Capital City, publication of the new edition of Minnesota's "Blue Book" doesn't exactly rank up there with the latest from, say, John Grisham or Patricia Cornwell or John Sanford.

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Sun Sep 20, 2009

Star Tribune

Keeping lid on levies to smooth way in bumpy times

Plymouth, Cottage Grove, Ramsey and Rosemount are in the vanguard of municipal frugality in a down economy.

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