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Making Absentee Ballots Work
Read more: Making Absentee Ballots WorkDuring the recount of Minnesota’s US Senate race, both campaign committees contacted our daughter about her absentee ballot. It turns out that her ballot had been rejected because “the signatures didn’t match.” This is…
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Finally – A second Minnesota senator
Read more: Finally – A second Minnesota senatorThe state Supreme Court ruled in favor of Al Franken, and Norm Coleman has finally abandoned his legal challenges. We have a senator. Short term I know there are people who are put off…
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Bad Internet!
Read more: Bad Internet!According to the CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the Internet has been really bad for film making. CEO Michael Lynton was, of course, talking about copyright. This was at a breakfast panel discussion on…
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BSA in the Mideast
Read more: BSA in the MideastI just spent an evening sharing stories with a fellow Scouter who has served as scoutmaster to an enclave of American boys in the Mideast. Their troop is a “direct service” troop, which means…
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Scary Economic Observation
Read more: Scary Economic ObservationGlenn Greenwald, a commentator in Salon, posted a scary observation in which he compares the U.S. economy to Russia and Argentina. He quotes Desmond Lachman, an IMF expert on emerging markets and former Salomon…
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Norm Coleman’s Tech Snafu
Read more: Norm Coleman’s Tech SnafuColeman’s Senate campaign web site is apparently a mess: it left an Excel spreadsheet listing thousands of donors in an unprotected directory. Minneapolis techie and consultant Adria Richards visited the site and published her…
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The New Hastings Bridge – What’s Up?
Read more: The New Hastings Bridge – What’s Up?Our US 61 bridge is supposed to be replaced Real Soon Now. After the I-35W bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, someone somewhere in MNDOT was told to take bridge safety seriously. So they reviewed every…
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