WW’s awards for the highs and lows at the Republican National Convention.
News
ST. PAUL, Minn.—According to this city’s lore, a visiting 19th-century New York journalist got such an unpleasant taste of change during a sudden winter storm that he called St. Paul &ldqu ...
More
It turns out some of the medical workers I wrote about here (in the photo above, they were helping activists who had been sprayed with pepper-spray or hurt by police in the aggressive suppression of anti-war protests on the fi...
More
I got the impression last night, at Ron Paul's “Rally for the Republic,” which drew a crowd of over 10,000 to Minneapolis' Target Center, that the failed Republican presidential candidate really believes he i...
More
In my last post I described the city destruction caused by a band of hooded anarchists I followed around St. Paul before the delegate buses began to arrive at the Accel Energy Center for the truncated opening day of the GOP Convention.
Some new numbers are in. According to local media, 10,000 people were at the Capitol in St. Paul to protest against the War in Iraq during the Republican National Convention (lower than the 50,000 expected).
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the vast majori...
More
The majority of the expected 50,000 activists (local media reports say not near that number attended) here in St. Paul to protest the opening day of the Republican National Convention were peaceful and civil.
The 50-75 young folks swathed in black hood...
More
Note to readers: Kevin Stark is live-blogging for WWire this week as Republicans gather behind John McCain and newly nominated Veep candidate Sarah Palin in St. Paul, Minn. Keep up with all the Streets of St. Paul entries More
WW intern learns from “The Pearl” and “The Scorpion” that he’s got a weak stick.
Featured Stories
Johnny “The Scorpion” Archer breaks an eight-ball rack like he is having savage, powerful sex. I break a rack like your baby sister. Earl “The Pearl” Strickland is a five-time ...
More
News
Here are the pictures I promised you of the picketers Sermin Yesilada and Daniele Colonna outside Bikini Coffee Co. downtown at 522 SW 5th Ave. (read last night's post here).
As I was taking pictures, I went inside to s...
More