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Olympic Ratings (08/15/08)

Minnesota leads the nation in watching the Olympics on television. John Rash from Campbell Mithun stops by to explain who is watching the 2008 Summer Olympics and why.

2006 Slip of the Tongue Shapes Session 2007

06/04/07
by John Rash
A popular bumper sticker from the 2004 presidential campaign simply stated: "November 2nd," signifying the date of the election and those displeased with the politics and policies of the Bush administration to change course.

Had that bumper sticker — and the election calendar — been in effect in 2006, the 2007 legislative session would have been decidedly different.
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Bowling Together

02/08/07
by John Rash
Bowling alone, Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam warned in his famous book of the same name, was a sign of a deteriorating civil society, as he deemed the demise of organized bowling leagues a cultural canary-in-a-coalmine of America’s move away from communities and towards more isolating individualism.
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The Media Covers - and May Become - the Story

01/12/07
by John Rash
The media will not only report and reflect the 2007 session, but may also become part of the very story they're covering.
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What I Would Like to See Lawmakers Accomplish

12/27/06
by John Rash
Minnesota's keenest competition isn't South Dakota. It's South Korea — and all the other countries that shine brighter than the North Star state in global test scores, particularly in math and science.
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Tough Week for Twin Cities Dailies (12/01/06)

The Pioneer Press is losing 21 veteran staffers ... the Strib is investigating possible plagiarism. Two topics we'll ask Jane Kirtley and John Rash about. Kirtley is a prof at the U of M Journalism School. Rash follows media as a Sr. Veep at the Campbell Mithun ad agency.

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