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Shot in the Dark - May 16, 2008
Doug Grow in the MinnPest does an endzone happy dance over the kickoff of Minneapolis City Hall’s new, hideously expensive, purely symbolic “Green Roof”: Workers will begin tossing dirt on conservative talk radio …
Tagged: minneapolis
Shot in the Dark - May 16, 2008
It was Monday, May 16, 1988. 9AM. It had been an interesting weekend. Wyatt was high most of the time. He’d gotten fired from Hot Rod’s, so he was looking to be even shorter on the money. And I was starting to look …
Tagged: twenty years ago today
Shot in the Dark - May 16, 2008
On the surface, the conviction of Anthony Pellicano on 76 of 77 counts against him closes the chapter on yet another tedious LA trial with media and showbiz connections. The temptation to wash ones hands of the whole …
Tagged: crime and punishment
Shot in the Dark - May 16, 2008
We’ll accept it as a given that nobody in the Twin Cities media excites more deranged, dissociative ranting than Katherine Kersten. There’s really no arguing the point. Let’s move along with the premise. Yesterday …
Shot in the Dark - May 16, 2008
G. R. Anderson - a writer who apparently spent his career at the City Pages rehearsing to be the next Doug Grow, building a career on soft-core DFL flakkery - gushes about MN Senator and and DFL hatchetwoman Tarryl …
Tagged: democrats, campaign 08, minnesota politics
Shot in the Dark - May 16, 2008
…that even the Strib, which has never met a spending program it doesn’t like, gets it: A number of members of Congress have celebrated this week’s passage of the $290 billion farm bill as a great victory for …
Tagged: money
Shot in the Dark - May 16, 2008
Al Franken sacks his old “campaign manager”, brings in a new one. What a difference a change in perspective makes: with the news, Roosh…: Franken brings on new campaign chief, Minn. native has experience unseating …
Tagged: media, democrats, campaign 08