Bob Collins
Twitter users are helping to crash pro-Iranian Web sites.
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Archives for June 2009
Gov. Tim Pawlenty is fond of comparing Minnesota’s social service programs with neighboring states — usually Wisconsin — to show that the state is overly generous. Today, he is expected to announce further cuts in health care coverage for the poor. Ironically, it comes at the same time Wisconsin is expanding its state subsidized health Read more →
I generally find discussions about health care to be endless and unenlightening. So why am I live-blogging today’s Midmorning discussion about the future of a single-payer health plan proposals?
Twitter had planned a network outage on Monday evening, but has now postponed it until Tuesday because people were depending on it too much for coverage of the events in Iran. “Our partners are taking a huge risk not just for Twitter but also the other services they support worldwide–we commend them for being flexible Read more →
Thousands gathered at the Vietnam Memorial on the grounds of the State Capitol on Saturday for Minnesota Honors Vietnam Era Veterans. The idea was to give Vietnam vets the return they didn’t get in the ’60s and ’70s. But no one was around today (or perhaps, Sunday) when people scrawled graffiti over a page in Read more →
One guy and a crowd
Supreme Court justices don’t give very many speeches. If they do, they often don’t allow them to be recorded. So it was a rare day yesterday when Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy addressed the graduating class at Stanford University. It takes awhile for him to get to get going, but he appears as we so Read more →
The truth about Roswell, exploring gay Iowa, let’s hear it for the boys, whatever happened to Daniel Hauser and more obsessing over the plight of graduating seniors.
Mainstream news organizations are reportedly being told to pack up and get out of Iran. New media, you’re on!
Iran 2009. Protests break out in an authoritarian state after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is declared winner by a landslide in his bid for re-election. It was 30 years ago…
The Mental Health America media awards were announced last night. The pieces that won are worth looking at. PBS won for Depression: Out of the Shadows, which was produced for WGBH in Boston and Twin Cities Public Television in Minnesota. Particularly compelling is the Faces of Depression section of the Web site. National Public Radio Read more →