-
Obama dominates latest Electoral College map view story
2 votes- Submitted by kronnan
- 6 days ago
- (http://www.minnpost.com/ericblack...)
I wrote the post below last night, just after Pollster.com had changed its rating of the prez race in Florida and Colorado from toss-up to leaning Obama, which gave the Dem ticket, for the first time I believe, a majority of the Electoral College among..
-
Real estate pro warns nonprofits: Beware Trojan House view story
1 vote- Submitted by kronnan
- 6 days ago
- (http://www.minnpost.com/scottruss...)
MREF provides free consultations to nonprofit organizations, helping them sort out whether the offered gift is a financial boon or a Trojan House (yes, I meant house).
-
What they're saying: Dow, global markets plunge view story
1 vote- Submitted by kronnan
- 7 days ago
- (http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2...)
The Dow industrials plunged below the 10,000 for the first time in nearly four years after the $700 billion bailout package and government interventions in Europe failed to settle nervousness in global markets. Here's some reaction from market observers
-
Creepy Big Brother? Or just good, responsive customer service? view story
2 votes- Submitted by kronnan
- 7 days ago
- (http://www.minnpost.com/johnreina...)
Comcast, for example, has an employee monitor Twitter feeds for customer problems. Ojeda-Zapata was having an issue with his own Comcast service one day recently and wrote a tweet about it. Five minutes later, he said, his phone rang. It was a Comcast rep
-
National Federation of the Blind protest 'Blindness'? view story
2 votes- Submitted by kronnan
- 7 days ago
- (http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2...)
In the new film "Blindness," a mysterious illness strikes a town, leaving its victims blind. The government quarantines the infected in an old mental asylum, which soon becomes a filthy, chaotic hellhole where helpless blind people defecate in hallways.
-
New Vikings stadium: High drama at Stadium Commission view story
2 votes- Submitted by kronnan
- 14 days ago
- (http://www.minnpost.com/jayweiner...)
The topic was simple enough: Which architect and which construction company would be crowned by the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission — with an A-OK from the Vikings — to begin to plan a new pro football stadium, price-tag unknown?
-
Remembering Paul Newman as Ol' Dad view story
1 vote- Submitted by kronnan
- 14 days ago
- (http://www.minnpost.com/robnelson...)
Paul Newman was a truly great actor and great movie star who made only a few great movies. His most indelible characters found themselves on one side of a gap, generational and sometimes legal as well.
-
'Stay Out of Jail Free': a closer look at RNC embedding view story
4 votes- Submitted by kronnan
- 17 days ago
- (http://www.minnpost.com/davidbrau...)
Maria Awes watched in curiosity, then repulsion, as the man crouched down near the Dorothy Day Center during a protest on the Republican National Convention’s second day. “There he was, crapping in his hand,” a still-amazed Awes recalls.
-
Debate experts handicap tonight's debate view story
2 votes- Submitted by kronnan
- 17 days ago
- (http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2...)
John McCain plans to attend tonight's presidential debate with Barack Obama after all, raising this question: In the midst of a major crisis in Washington, how will the candidates do? A trio of local debate experts offer their views.
-
With the GOP convention over, now come the lawsuits view story
5 votes- Submitted by kronnan
- 28 days ago
- (http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2...)
The Republican National Convention may be gone, but we're in for a long ride on the swirl of legal issues it created. Think of it in the coming months as Court Fest.

