DFL Expands Government at Alarming Rate

State representatives are elected to two-year terms. State senators, meanwhile, have four-year terms. The next election for state senators is 2010. To find out information about candidates in your di...... more

Currently my Minnesota House District is represented by the disaster known as Rep. Madore.  Fortunately, this election I have a much better option in the form of one Tara Mack.  And thanks to her wide support her campaign has generated she has put together a television commercial, which is airing on Charter. I wish her the [...]... more

Talk about perfect timing. Today is Halloween and today is the day I make our 2008 election predictions. Trick or treat.  First some history. Predicting elections has become a rich PIM tradition. Former PIM editors D.J. Leary and Wy Spano began making them at the inception of this publication in the early 1980s. I joined the two DFLers in 1993 and up until 2002, we wrote all our predictions in one voice. That made for some good late night arguments, but in the end, we all stood by w... more

It’s been a week since the local election in New Brighton, but the dead tree media is finally getting their coverage out. In this week’s New Brighton Bulletin Mayor Steve Larson comments on his re-election in spite of only getting 45% of the vote. And to what does "Landslide" Larson attribute his victory? Of course, to running a clean campaign and remaining positive! If one accepts Sanctimonious Steve’s explanation as correct, what can we conclude about the campaign of ... more

What does it take to be a patriot? It takes love of country, commitment and rare courage. In American history the term “patriot� belongs to those few ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, then rise to a challenge in an uncommon way. It may be an Audie Murphy or a Sergeant York. But those are well known. I have chosen three lesser known patriots to highlight: Nathan Hale. Young Nathan had a bright future ahead of him when the Revolutionary war broke o... more

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