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Briefing - Thursday March 23, 2006

Posted at 11:35 AM on March 23, 2006 by Bob Collins

I probably won't be posting a lot today because I'm working on a Flash multimedia project to go along with a piece that Mark Zdechlik is putting together for tomorrow night's All Things Considered. It's a year in the life of a Minnesota National Guard soldier in Baghdad.

But there's a few things to get off my desk before I go immerse myself (the payoff at the end of the work day is the Roomful of Blues concert at the Fitz!).

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First, I'm late getting to this but a week or so ago I talked about Select A Candidate and some folks commented on the "boxed-in questions." I'll deal with that later but admit that a flaw in Select A Candidate is that it mirrors the campaign. If they ain't talking about the issue, the issue ain't gonna show up on Select A Candidate.

So how to get them talking about what you want them to talk about? Right here, my friend. This is part of MPR's Public Insight Journalism effort; something else I should write about one of these days.

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On Midday, the whole same-sex thing is getting aired out again.

Michele Bachmann and Scott Dibble are the guests.

And Tom Scheck snapped this to prove that a Republican and DFLer really can sit down at the same table... sort of.

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Oh, and this. The Diet Sprite! Where's the Diet Sprite!


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Off to tween now.

(Update 5:45 p.m.) - OK, I'm done. And because you know the secret handshake, you get to see it a full day before it appears on the Web site.

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