Almanac: At the Capitol

Elwyn Tinklenberg will announce he's running to try to replace Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Tink will make it official Monday morning and it appears former Ventura spokesperson John Wodele will be helping him out. The former transportation commissioner will join DFLer Bob Olson in this race.
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Here's a huge thanks to our growing ranks of readers and viewers on the web. As many of you know, we revamped the Almanac: At the Capitol website this year and man did it work! I just found up our hits our up 10-FOLD from last session. And your favorite place to visit was this blog. I'm stunned, amazed, honored.
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The news is big, I think. Eric Black, the much-read man behind the Strib's Big Question is officially headed to "web land." This is pretty solid evidence newspapers, journalism, and public affairs are changing. We've been lucky at tpt to have people like our former web guru Chuck Olsen see trends like this coming when more than five years ago he told me I had to start doing this blogging thing (although one local blogger once called it my "weekly paragraph" — sorry, I do have a really busy job where TV is the first thing I have to do ahead of blogging).
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