A Little Bragging

We usually don’t highlight when MNpublius appears in the news, but this is the first time I’ve been in the New York Times, so I have to brag a little. Michael and I have our pictures in an article in today’s NYTimes about blogging in Minnesota. And while the story is a bit more about the Franken tax situation than I would have hoped, I really can’t complain because, hey, this is pretty cool (although the picture is a bit dorky!).
 
Ha.

We’re down towards the bottom of the article:

D.F.L.-leaning sites like MNPublius, the creation of Matt Martin, 23, had turned to claims that Mr. Coleman might face his own financial embarrassment: Mr. Coleman this month declined a D.F.L. demand that he return campaign donations from workers at a firm that once lobbied on behalf of a faction of Myanmar’s military government. Other sites raised questions about the state Republican Party’s own financial reporting issues; state party officials acknowledge they are reviewing Federal Election Commission filings since 2002, but argue that their sort of errors have been common among state party organizations.

And, I’m also happy that I mentioned to Ms. Davey that Minnesota’s voter turnout was the highest in the nation in 2006 — I always love a chance to brag about Minnesota:

Experts here say the abundance of these blogs is a mirror onto this state, its partisan split in recent years and its long tradition of intense political activism (by some measures, voter turnout here was the highest in the nation in 2006). That said, they are anything but Minnesota Nice.