Instant Runoff Voting on Election Day 2009: Wins, Losses and the Long-Term Trajectory of Reform
Tuesday's elections brought direct advances for IRV in Minnesota and elsewhere, along with disappointments in places like Aspen.
Tuesday's elections brought direct advances for IRV in Minnesota and elsewhere, along with disappointments in places like Aspen.
AP | VICKI SMITH and MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home
John Byrnes boarded the windows and hired a security guard, but can't figure out why activists and anarchists planning to disrupt a meeting of the world's 20 most powerful leaders would want to bother with his 24-hour gym.
The X Shadyside 24-Hour Health & Fitness club is a one-man business, he says, not part of a profit-hungry conglomerate bent on global domination. Yet, like Starbucks and McDonald's, the gym is on a list of 80 businesses and organizations the Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project has targeted for protests during the Group of 20 summit Thursday and Friday.
"I'm just as curious as anybody why they're protesting my gym," he said.
Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard said intelligence reports suggest thousands of protesters are expected in the city Thursday and Friday, but she had few details regarding demonstrations.
Representatives of the Pittsburgh Resistance Project, an umbrella organization of protest groups, didn't return phone messages. Its Web site describes plans for an unpermitted People's Uprising, "a mass march" Thursday that will begin in a neighborhood northeast of downtown and end at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, the primary site of the summit.
The Post Chronicle | Posted 07.30.2009 | Home
Vatican archaeologists using laser technology have discovered what they believe is the oldest image in existence of St Paul the Apostle, dating from t...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
In a clear-cut case of wearing too many hats, Jeff Larson, until now mostly known as a guy who knows Karl Rove way too well, has been exposed as the man behind Sarah Palin's red leather top, and another $140,000+ of wardrobe changes.
ZP Heller | Posted 10.18.2008 | Entertainment
The St. Paul police should have known better than to try to stop Tom Morello. The Rage guitarist leads a growing number of musicians who have adopted an explicit antiwar, anti-Bush message.
Pioneer Press/Twincities.com | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
The Pioneer Press reports on the self-described "poor judgement" of Gabriel Nathan Schwartz, 29, of Denver. Schwartz was in Minneapolis last month fo...
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 10.11.2008 | Media
So, um, lipstick? Yes, lipstick is the main story of the day; but why? Is it sexist? Is it a diversion? Is it just... lipstick?
Bill Katovsky | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
"Terminator: The Sarah Palin Chronicles" which premiered in St. Paul to overwhelming critical acclaim has now taken its show on the road. But I got ba...
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home
Click for News, Photos and all the links to major press coverage of the Republican Convention and for the Democratic reaction. This past week could ha...
Variety | Ted Johnson | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media
Surrounded by police in riot gear on the Marion Street bridge in St. Paul on Thursday night, along with about 300 protesters and members of the media,...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.08.2008 | Media
Here's one great by-product of the web for print media: The opportunity to loose your funniest reporters on the medium and see what the heck happens n...
Robert Greenwald | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media
ZP Heller | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
For all the talk of candidates needing "experience" in this election, the only real experience the GOP is concerned with is McCain's POW past.
Murray Fromson | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
It is not Sarah Palin's shortage of experience, but her lack of sophistication that is most troubling. It was a cute applause line, describing herself...
Robert Koehler | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
Call it creative self-destruction, maybe. How surreal it's been this week to watch the Republicans reap a small portion of the divine comeuppance du...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
I had the pleasure of joining Jezebel's Megan Carpentier this morning for another edition of Crappy Hour. On the docket for today: the Sarah Palin co...
Rusty Russell | Posted 10.04.2008 | Home
Obama said we could disagree without being disagreeable. Palin doesn't have time for that kind of liberal chit chat. That stuff just won't bag the moose. Earlier, Giuliani tried to redefine the term "jerk."
Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
Amy Goodman of Pacifica Network's Democracy Now! was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota, while trying to free two of her producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddo...
Paul Peete | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home
The Republicans have had their share of problems this week: their convention opening was delayed by Hurricane Gustav, Congressmen were avoiding St. Pa...
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home
MINNEAPOLIS -- Police arrested protesters near the St. Paul convention site this afternoon and blocked off pedestrian and car traffic into the city ce...
Rebecca Shapiro | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home
HuffPost's OffTheBus is teaming up with USC Annenberg's Center on Communication Leadership and the Institute for Photographic Empowerment to support...
Monroe Anderson | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
Republicans were performing a rain dance this time last week hoping and praying that a thunderstorm might wash out Barack Obama's parade.
Howard A. Rodman | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics
Apparently, the St. Paul police and FBI are doing just what the Constitution (and the Courts) say you cannot do -- put people in jail for no reason because you think they might make a fuss.
Henry Miller | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
The current vitality of the conventions stems from their successful transformation from deliberative bodies into television studios, with large in-house audiences.
Coleen Rowley | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
The final practice of the "March on the RNC" went off without a hitch Tuesday, July 1, in St. Paul. There were almost as many police on bicycl...
Rob Richie | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics