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Minneapolis Bridge Collapse - 2001 study found bridge OK, advised no big fix...

The March 2001 study into the bridge that collapsed Wednesday evening advised against refurbishing the bridge because of "high costs."

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Does John Edwards Really Have 26 Pledged Delegates?

I'm sure I'm not the only Kossack who is keeping his/her own spreadsheet of popular vote and/or pledged delegate yields from each of the Democratic primary contests. And I'm sure I'm not the only one...

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All the Division and Acrimony Must End

It is becoming increasingly clear: those of us who want to see a Democrat in the White House must put aside our disagreements, end the divisive rhetoric, and come together to answer the pressing...

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Half-Assed Rhode Island Delegate Projections (Now With Half-Assed Update!)

I'm a great admirer of the delegate projections that MattTX, redvolution, and especially poblano have posted in recent weeks. I don't nearly have the statistics (or HTML) chops that those guys do, but...

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Half-Assed Vermont Delegate Projections

This is a sequel to my my Half-Assed Rhode Island Delegate Projections diary--which still appears to be the gold standard for Rhode Island delegate projections on DKos. (Admittedly that's not saying...

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Texas Caucus Results Thread (Obama's Winning Texas, Folks!)

I'm sure I'm not the only one hanging on the Texas Democratic Party's caucus results website, waiting for the autorefresh that brings new numbers. A new set of information seems to be rolling in every...

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TX Caucus Results Thread (Obama's Winning TX!) #2

This is Volume II of my thread for anyone who is trying to keep up with the Texas Democratic Party's halting attempts to publicize the results of the 8,224 precinct caucuses that were held on the...

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Obama Was a Lot Like This as My Professor

[Note: This diary was written in the immediate aftermath of Obama's Philadelphia speech on race, "A More Perfect Union."] In the fall of 2000, as a second-year student at the University of Chicago Law...

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Texas Caucus Results Open Thread

Anyone still reading this? If you are, go ahead and comment here, I guess. Updates will be sparse today (Monday, March 31), but I'll add in the newest numbers I see are up on Burnt Orange Report.

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Pennsylvania Delegate-Count Tracker

After an enjoyable (though exhausting) experience tracking the Texas county- and district-level convention results in a long diary last month, I thought it would be fun, and hopefully valuable to...

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NC & IN: What do you want to see in a Delegate Tracker Thread?

I've been flattered by the nice response I've received for my delegate tracker threads following the Texas district and county caucuses and the Pennsylvania primary. Posting and maintaining them is...

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IN & NC Delegate Tracker Background Materials

I've just posted a new delegate-tracker diary along the same lines as the ones I maintained during the Texas district and county caucuses and the Pennsylvania primary. In an attempt to get the new...

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Indiana (& North Carolina) Delegate Tracker

Hey, gang, this thread has moved to the new diary that I posted on Wednesday morning, May 7. C'mon over!

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The Current IN & NC Delegate Picture (further updates of May 6 delegate tracker)

For understandable reasons, attention to the May 6 delegate race has waned a bit this morning--but results are still trickling in. So I'm reposting my delegate tracker thread from last night, to see if...

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Live From the Xcel Floor: The St. Paul Obama Rally, Liveblogged

Tonight we Minnesota Obama supporters are gathering with Barack Obama and his family in the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, for what we hope will be a victory celebration as Barack gains...

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The Day After My Liveblog: Mayhill Fowler Strikes Back (sort of)

As many of you read yesterday evening, I finagled myself a press credential for the Obama rally in St. Paul, Minnesota last night (throwing the name "Daily Kos" around a bunch helped) and liveblogged...

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It's the Expectations Game, Stupid

(The title is a reference to the 1992 Carville slogan, of course--I'm not actually calling you stupid....) Judging by left-blogosphere reaction to last night's debate, I'm one of many liberals who...

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Is Dole's "Godless" Ad Really "Beyond the Pale"? (Updated with Powell quote)

A current front-page story, as well as plenty of other political discussion here and elsewhere, understandably goes after "Godless," the Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) ad that all but declares that Democratic...

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Inauguration Travelogue - Day 0

This week, Mrs. Rieux and I will be joining millions of our fellow Americans heading toward Washington, D.C., to see our forty-fourth President--my former law school professor--inaugurated. I'd like...

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Inauguration Travelogue - Day 1: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

This week, Mrs. Rieux and I are joining millions of our fellow Americans heading toward Washington, D.C., to see our forty-fourth President--my former law school professor--inaugurated. I'd like to...

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Inauguration Travelogue - Day 2: "Obamastock"

This week, Mrs. Rieux and I are joining millions of our fellow Americans heading toward Washington, D.C., to see our forty-fourth President--my former law school professor--inaugurated. I'd like to...

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Inauguration Travelogue - Day 3: Family, Frigidity, Frustration

This week, Mrs. Rieux and I are joining millions of our fellow Americans heading toward Washington, D.C., to see our forty-fourth President--my former law school professor--inaugurated. I'd like to...

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Inauguration Travelogue - Day 4: "The Crisis" on The Mall

This week, Mrs. Rieux and I are joining millions of our fellow Americans heading toward Washington, D.C., to see our forty-fourth President--my former law school professor--inaugurated. I'd like to...

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A Christian in FAVOR of Atheist "Attacks" on Religion

As you may well have noticed, the past several days have seen yet another flare-up in the argument between faithful and faithless on Daily Kos. For what is not the first--and assuredly will not be the...

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ARIS 2008 shows Numbers of U.S. Atheists and "No Religion"-ists Booming

Scholars compiling 2008 edition of the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) have just publicized some of their numbers--and they show an American populace that is rapidly becoming more...

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(No longer) BREAKING: MN-Sen court order in; Franken wins barring counting...

The election contest court adjudicating Norm Coleman's challenge to the 2008 Minnesota Senate election has finished and published its order (32 pages, almost half of it exhibits) this afternoon. It...

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Short Political Joke from Facebook "Security Check" CAPTCHA

You know those silly "Security Check" things Facebook makes you do periodically, when you're commenting or adding friends or other things, to make sure you're not a 'Net-cruising robot?

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The Laudable Dissenting Opinion in Today's California Court Decision

By now surely you've seen multiple diaries bringing the sad news that California's Proposition 8 has been upheld in a 6-1 decision of the California Supreme Court. That the 18,000 same-sex marriages...

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Atheist Digest '10: Glossary

Any self-respecting atheist diary series needs a "What do the words mean?" article, and this year it falls to me to write it. What is an "atheist"? What's an "agnostic"? Why are non-believers so...

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Potential Disaster in Minnesota

As many of us who were watching Minnesota election results closely last night know, Democrat Mark Dayton appears to have eked out a slim win over freaky Republican Tom Emmer in Minnesota's...

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Breaking (MN-Gov): MN Supremes Deny Emmer (R)'s Petition to Complicate Recount

If you haven't been following the minutiae of the impending Minnesota gubernatorial recount closely, this may go over your head, but: the Minnesota Supreme Court has denied trailing candidate Tom Emmer...

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Voter Rights Win in MN Federal Court

Courts in Minnesota, like those in several other states, are currently considering a number of lawsuits stemming from right-wing attempts to keep as many young, poor, disabled, and/or ethnic-minority...

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Breaking: Marriage Equality Did Even Better In Minnesota Last Night Than You...

Last night, as you know already, we in Minnesota became the first state to successfully vote down an anti-gay-marriage ballot amendment at the polls. (We also voted for Barack Obama and Amy Klobuchar,...

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Marriage Equality and the Supremes: The Possible "California Only" Outcome IS...

As most Kossacks know, marriage equality is before the U.S. Supreme Court today (and tomorrow); today's case is the challenge to California's anti-gay Proposition 8. Press accounts have described...

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[No longer] live blog: Minnesota Senate vote on Marriage Equality

Okay, folks—with ten minutes or so until the session starts, I think I'm going to have to try to repost this. Hang on and re-rec if you can. Thanks!

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Liveblog [IT PASSED!]: Minnesota Senate vote on Marriage Equality

The Minnesota Senate convenes at noon Central Time (1 P.M. Eastern, 10 A.M. Pacific) today to take up HF 1054, the bill the Minnesota House passed last Thursday, a bill that would enact civil marriage...

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MN court fines right-wing attorney $10,000 for fraud in 2020 contest lawsuit...

After a testy Zoom hearing on Friday afternoon, March 26, a Minnesota district court judge fined a right-wing attorney ten thousand dollars for perpetrating what he called a fraud on the court and on...

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Federal Verdict in on Chauvin's Accomplices: GUILTY on ALL Charges

A federal jury has just found former Minneapolis Police Department officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao guilty of federal crimes for failing to stop their superior officer, Derek...

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Good Riddance, Stephen Breyer

New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation is indeed historic and wonderful in many ways. But just as significant an element of today's news, I think, is that we can finally breathe easy that we...

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Yes, Trump CAN Be Disqualified—And a Trial is Not Necessarily Required

Hard as it currently is for many Americans to believe, there is a meaningful possibility (based on a constitutional argument that is very strong) that Donald Trump’s name will be removed from...

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Lawsuit Filed in Minnesota Supreme Court to Disqualify Trump from Ballot

As the StarTribune is reporting this afternoon, a bipartisan group of voters have filed a petition in the Minnesota Supreme Court seeking an order holding that former President Donald Trump is...

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Saint Paul, MN Appears to Have Elected an All-Female City Council

With all precincts reporting late Tuesday evening, female candidates are leading in the count for—and indeed appear to have won—all seven of the seats on the city council of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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