J. Patrick Coolican
Editor-in-Chief at Minnesota Reformer
Editor in chief, @MNReformer. Contact me if you wanna write for us. DMs open. Formerly @StarTribune, @LasVegasSun, @UMWallaceHouse. Go Irish.
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minnesotareformer.com | J. Patrick Coolican
Gov. Tim Walz got dragged online and on cable news last week for some comments he made at the Harvard Institute of Politics. “But I also was on the ticket quite honestly, ya know, because I could code talk to white guys watching football and fixing their truck and doing that. That I could put them at ease. I was the permission structure to say, ‘Look you can do this and vote for this.’”If true, and it probably is, “it was an epic miscalculation,” as CNN’s Abby Phillip put it.
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yahoo.com | J. Patrick Coolican
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz delivers the State of the State address Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)Gov. Tim Walz got dragged online and on cable news last week for some comments he made at the Harvard Institute of Politics. “But I also was on the ticket quite honestly, ya know, because I could code talk to white guys watching football and fixing their truck and doing that. That I could put them at ease.
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2 weeks ago |
minnesotareformer.com | J. Patrick Coolican |Minnesota Reformer
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southernminn.com | J. Patrick Coolican
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minnesotareformer.com | J. Patrick Coolican
by J. Patrick Coolican, Minnesota Reformer April 25, 2025 Saint Paul is a mess these days. Hannibal Buress once joked about St. Paul at a Turf Club show by saying, “fraternal twins,” i.e., there’s Minneapolis and then its runtier, sleepier, duller twin. We’ve lost our only grocery store downtown, which is looking like a modern day Dickens novel since the pandemic.
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