Gubernatorial candidate Paul Thissen talks with Carleton student Yoni Blumberg
BY LEAF ELHAI
Two days after Minnesotans went to the polls on Nov. 3 to elect a new slate of local officials, one politician, DFL Rep. Paul Thissen, was still hard on the campaign trail.
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BY MAIA RODRIGUEZ
Last Thursday night at the Northfield Community Resource Center, DFL state Senator John Marty argued that the current state and federal health care system was simply “not good enough,” and elaborated on the key principles of a new state health care proposal that he said would provide better care and cut costs...
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BY KAITLIN MUTH
“Grayson: Cheney is a vampire.”
So read the headline of an article posted on Politico.com about an hour after the site’s editor-in-chief, John Harris, finished his convocation address at Carleton College’s Skinner Memorial Chapel on Friday.
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BY BRIAN GILBERT
“A six year-old girl enters the hospital with fatigue and a severe headache. Her white blood cell count is above 700,000, a clear sign of leukemia. Without immediate action, she would be dead within a week.”
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BY KAITLIN MUTH
“It’s a secret war,” said Bernard Span, who works at the Digs home design shop in Northfield, referring last week to the conflict in Afghanistan.
American involvement in that ‘secret’ has been a subject of increased public debate in recent weeks as President Obama meets with his security advisors to overhaul American strategy...
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BY MAIA RODRIGUEZ
A poster for the first annual meeting of the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG) Carleton branch was recently defaced in a crude and brazen manner. “WE VOTED NO,” the graffiti shouted.
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BY KAITLIN MUTH
“Idealism is worthwhile.”
So John McConnell told students, faculty and community members at Carleton College’s weekly convocation in Skinner Memorial Chapel on Sept. 25, in a speech entitled “Notes on Eight Years in the White House.”
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