The Other Special

In Maple Grove District 32B, the DFL may actually have a candidate able to make in roads. Mick Ganley is the past President of the Minneapolis Police Officers Federation. As a cop Ganley is a good fit for the district. The past State Senator is Pat McGowan the current...

Suburban Special Elections

We are watching with great interest the Special Elections in Burnsville, Stillwater and Maple Grove. These are three suburban districts, which many expect the DFL to perform poorly. If as we expect there is an election in Bloomington this will be a focus as well....

2003 Inaugural Activities

The Tim Pawlenty (R) inauguration is the start of a new Administration facing a steep budget deficit, but ripe with promise.  In his speech, Pawlenty laid out a broad set of principles and goals long on rhetoric and short on specifics.  The even only had one hitch and...

Mike Hatch Inaugural Speech  January 6, 2003

GOVERNOR VENTURA, LT. GOV. SCHUNK, AUDITOR DUTCHER AND TREASURER JOHNSON.  I THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THIS STATE. SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE SPOKE ABOUT A FOURTH GRADE TEACHER IN AN IMPOVERISHED PART OF MINNESOTA WHO ONE DAY WALKED INTO HIS CLASSROOM AND ASKED HIS...

Speaking of Hatch

It took awhile for the major news media to catch on to the developing story between the attempts to plant anti-Hatch stories by the MPR board and management en route to news director Bill Buzenburg, but then even a blind chicken gets some grain. We first ran a piece...