Saint Paul 2008

Though the RNC Convention gets the majority of the attention of the three major conventions taking place in St. Paul in 2008, there’s some exciting news for the cleaner, better-dressed visitors to our town - NBC will be televising the Figure Skating Championships, which take place in January. Not just token coverage, either, but […]

Every time we dare to question, or worse yet, criticize any of the groups, committees, or collectives planning and organizing protests and demonstrations at the 2008 RNC Convention here in St. Paul, lots and lots of angry activistas yell at us, like we’re the enemy or something. So, with eye- and hearing-protection firmly in […]

Following in St. Paul’s wake, Murderapolis Minneapolis has announced the creation of their own “committee to protect the rights of protesters”, including no less august a person than mayor R.T. Ryback himself, possibly the only city mayor in the country to have a beer named after him. (It’s a pretty decent beer, too.) […]

Bob Fletcher, erstwhile Ramsey County Sheriff, says he’s been advised by the Saint Paul Police Department to plan for three-thousand arrests during the 2008 RNC convention, and is asking for more than four million dollars to help do so.

It’s probably overkill, but as Commander Joe Neuberger of the SPPD said, “it’s easier to scale back […]

The St. Paul city council has voted (unanimously) to create a special advisory panel to “oversee demonstrations” at the 2008 RNC convention here, vowing to treat protesters “with the same respect and honor accorded to conventioneers.”
Like many local government actions, everybody loses with this decision. The demonstrators and protesters lose, in that they want […]

Two articles in the past few days touch on the demonstrations and protests predicted to take place during the 2008 RNC convention here in St. Paul - one in the Minnesota Daily, the University of Minnesota newspaper, is highly entertaining, despite having no real purpose or point (but such is the case with many of […]