I always wanted my name painted on the office door.
As much as I post about Maplewood, MN, I don’t live there. I just got caught up in the interesting whirlwind of local politics and personalities. I live nearby on Saint Paul’s luxurious East Side. Today, the oft-berated East Side Review landed on my step. And I congratulate them on a really nice set of [...]
Keith Ellison, who is running for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional seat, seems to have the Minneapolis Star-Tribune in his back pocket. He’s had stunningly good coverage with little investigation into some things in his past which voters might be interested in. If they were told. But they’re not. Powerline, a locally-written conservative blog with a national readership, [...]
savemaplewood.com, though biased, is the go-to place for Maplewood new items concerning the contentious situation surrounding the Maplewood City Council and city administration. Of course, I’m the go-to guy if you want to add in a little fairness to the mix. :) A bit ago, they posted KSTP-TVs response to Maplewood City Council member Erik Hjelle’s [...]
This is just stunning to me. The local major paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, ran a pretty negative “news” (not editorial) piece about Republican Alan Fine, who is running for Congress against Democrat Keith Ellison (my small comments on the race here and here). The paper dug up an expunged court record of charges that were [...]
Not really. I’d get in trouble. For speaking the truth to power, I suppose. With a smirk. A young guy comes to my door and has a quick three question survey. There were five choices in the first question “what do you rank as most important to you”, and the “options” left me thinking I was [...]
That’s the question Stephen Filister and Judith Johannessen address in their editorial on their website for the “nonpartisan” Maplewood Citizen’s League (MCL). They seem to be bothered that City Councilmember Erik Hjelle had an article in the Maplewood City News which suggested that the city council is not as divided as one might understand based on [...]
Back about the time when the KSTP-TV story which concerning the Maplewood City Council aired, I became more and more curious about the way TV news is done. I sent the following note to the reporter of that story (after having exchanged emails once before on the topic). It went unanswered. But given that the Minnesota [...]
In one of her comments here on my site, Maplewood Mayor Diana Longrie noted that the fact the her husband had a restraining order issued against him was something that had been picked up on in various news stories in the past. Here’s an example mention from the Pioneer Press [by Steve Smith, posted on [...]
There’s a local radio personality named Joe Soucheray, who acts as the “mayor” of a mythical town called Garage Logic. Friday afternoon he had some discussion concerning the blogger who fed illicitly gained information to the Amy Klobuchar (DFL) campaign for the Minnesota U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mark Dayton. He was bothered by the [...]
Yet more about the Maplewood City Council I’ve been blissfully unaware of the local happenings concerning the whole silliness over there, but I did peruse the neighborhood paper today which carried a Katy Zillmer story - Once a city grievance, now a federal lawsuit. As I understand the story, primarily from East Side Review coverage - [...]