Aaron Wiener is assistant editor of The Washington Independent. He co-edits the blog and runs the Website, in addition to reporting and blogging on energy and the environment. When not glued to a screen, he plays harmonica and rhythm guitar for the folk-blues duo The Mustard Boys.
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Franken’s Tuesday swearing-in will feature Biden, Mondale, Klobuchar
Vice President Joe Biden has been booked for Al Franken’s swearing-in as a U.S. Senator, and Franken says ...
Minnesota Independent 7/2/2009 -
Dem oppo-research firm fills in Bachmann’s U.S. Census form for her
A Democratic opposition-research firm has taken up the challenge of answering the 2010 U.S. Census questions that Rep. Michele Bachmann ...
Minnesota Independent 7/2/2009 -
Culver: GOP misleading Iowans on budget
Republicans are not being honest with Iowans about the state of the budget and have chosen to play politics instead ...
Iowa Independent 7/2/2009 -
Candidate McInnis moves mountains — from Canadian Rockies to Colorado
What is it with Colorado politicians and their mountains? No, Mount McKinley isn't Pikes Peak, and the Canadian Rockies are ...
Colorado Independent 7/2/2009 -
Mayor Marty’s idea for reducing DWI finds an audience on Facebook
Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez is pushing an idea to keep intoxicated people from driving when the bars close — in a ...
New Mexico Independent 7/2/2009 -
ABQ City Council prez says public deserves vote on charter amendments
Albuquerque City Council President Isaac Benton thinks that Mayor Martin Chavez’s veto of a bill placing city charter amendments ...
New Mexico Independent 7/2/2009 -
What you need to know about special interest legislative scorecards
Reading this year’s legislative scorecard put out by the Albuquerque-based Association of Commerce and Industry, you would think Doñ...
New Mexico Independent 7/2/2009 -
A chapter closes for the Coleman-Franken chattering classes
What was that all about? We shook two 24-hour news cycles' worth of media mumbo-jumbo on the Coleman-Franken fracas, and ...
Minnesota Independent 7/2/2009 -
McInnis set to begin legally running for governor
Scott McInnis has made his bid for governor official — again. The former six-term GOP congressman from Grand Junction filed Wednesday ...
Colorado Independent 7/2/2009 -
Mr. Rivera goes to Washington
Ray Rivera is an Albuquerque native who recently turned 30. Following two years on Barack Obama’s grueling but ultimately triumphant ...
New Mexico Independent 7/2/2009 -
Judge grants CSU motion; chancellor search tape to remain unreleased
Unbowed by a ruling two weeks ago in which a Larimer County judge found that Colorado State University violated Open ...
Colorado Independent 7/2/2009 -
TODAY’S BLOG ROUNDUP: Heath care reform and crashing the TEA party!
The blogs, they are a’dualing here in New Mexico today. Bloggers face off over two important topics blowing up ...
New Mexico Independent 7/2/2009
