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Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie spent Tuesday morning urging Bemidji State University students to pre-register before November’s general election. Shown above, Ritchie, left, talks with Dan White and Stephen Prichard, who both registered Tuesday. Monte Draper | Bemidji Pioneer

Ritchie helps register BSU students for election

BEMIDJI – One of the most powerful elected state officials shuffled around Hobson Memorial Union at Bemidji State University Tuesday morning, asking students if they were prepared for the upcoming...

news / local Tue, Oct 09, 2012 - 11:51pm

U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack (left), R-North Branch, listens while Democratic challenger Rick Nolan speaks during a candidate forum at the Duluth Playhouse on Tuesday. Steve Kuchera | Forum Communications

Cravaack, Nolan spar in debate

By Peter Passi, Forum Communications DULUTH — Rep. Chip Cravaack and challenger Rick Nolan wasted little time in drawing distinctions between themselves on big issues such as Medicare and the...

news / region Tue, Oct 09, 2012 - 11:49pm

Property tax claim disputed

BEMIDJI – It’s a line that DFLers have used in debates, and outside groups have used in TV ads. But the claim that Republicans voted to increase property taxes on...

news / local Tue, Oct 09, 2012 - 11:46pm

General election candidate forums set

BEMIDJI – Citizens for an Informed Electorate Committee will sponsor candidate forums prior to November’s general election. Four forums will be held for partisan and non-partisan local offices, and all...

news / local Tue, Oct 09, 2012 - 11:46pm

Will Durst: The audacity of mendacity

A surprisingly large segment of America tuned into the first presidential debate, but for some odd reason, President Obama did not appear among them. Who was in charge of his...

opinion / commentary Tue, Oct 09, 2012 - 11:22pm

Byron York: Romney should expose the IRS as enforcer of Obamacare

As Mitt Romney campaigns on the promise to repeal Obamacare, some Republicans on Capitol Hill are trying to learn more about what the national health care law will actually do...

opinion / commentary Mon, Oct 08, 2012 - 11:45pm

Gene Lyons: The end of the Southern Strategy

Come to think of it, things have been awfully quiet on the End Times front. Living in the South, one grows accustomed to hearing about a never-ending series of conspiratorial...

opinion / commentary Fri, Oct 05, 2012 - 3:39am

Byron York: Obama’s issues multiply as GOP frets over Romney

As the campaign enters its final month, President Obama is enjoying more than just a lead in most polls. He’s also enjoying Republican insiders slamming Mitt Romney for various faults,...

opinion / commentary Fri, Oct 05, 2012 - 3:37am

Joe Gandelman: Romney’s big debate challenge

When President Barack Obama faces off against Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Denver on Oct. 3 for the first of three presidential debates, Romney starts a new chapter where...

opinion / commentary Fri, Sep 28, 2012 - 12:38am

Will Durst: Worst campaign ever?

It’s time to start worrying about Mitt Romney. Seriously. The guy may just be running the worst campaign ever. And yes, that includes the McDLT, print ads for organic hemp...

opinion / commentary Thu, Sep 27, 2012 - 12:58am

Susan Stamper Brown: Makers, takers and the ‘47 percent’

Firing a tile craftsman last week helped me to make sense of the undeniable divide between America’s “makers” and “takers” described in Mitt Romney’s sloppy “47” percent misstatement. Although Romney’s...

opinion / commentary Thu, Sep 27, 2012 - 12:57am

Veterans, military families form anti-amendment group

ST. PAUL – A group of military veterans and family members plan to fight a proposal to define marriage in the Minnesota Constitution that effectively bans gay marriages. Lori and...

news Wed, Sep 26, 2012 - 3:49am

Steve and Cokie Roberts: Romney's Trust Problem

The most important word in American politics is trust. And that’s why Barack Obama is maintaining a slight lead over Mitt Romney, despite a sputtering economy and a gloomy electorate...

opinion / commentary Mon, Sep 24, 2012 - 11:48pm

Gene Lyons: Romney’s members-only words say a lot

When Mitt Romney visited Little Rock a while back for one of those $50,000 per couple fundraisers where he pretends to tell plutocrats what he really thinks, he acted more...

opinion / commentary Fri, Sep 21, 2012 - 2:11am

Carl Golden: Gaffes in the age of cell phones and social media

If you’ve ever gotten caught up in watching one of those 1940s spy movies on cable television, you’re familiar with the scene in which the two agents meet in a...

opinion / commentary Wed, Sep 19, 2012 - 8:30pm

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