Fellow Seekers of Wisdom and Truth,
Effective immediately, Black Ink will become a page at MinnPost. This link will take you to the homepage of MinnPost. If I have something new, it will either be displayed prominently on the MinnPost homepage under my byline, or you will see the little portrait of me (that black ink […]

Effective in the New Year, Black Ink and your humble ink-stained wretch will join MinnPost.com.
Black Ink will become a page on MinnPost’s site and my scribbling (or a link to it) will appear on MinnPost’s cover.
I am parting on good and friendly terms with the Minnesota Monitor, where my work over the past months has […]

Three Democrats vying for the DFL endorsement for the open congressional seat from Minnesota’s Third District will participate in a forum tonight on Iraq and related issues sponsored by four peace groups. The candidates who have committed to attend are Edina Mayor Jim Hovland (at left) state Sen. Terri Bonoff (near right), and […]

For reasons that surpass understanding, the Twin Cities Media Alliance has asked me to kick-off a series of brownbag lunches with journalists where anyone that wants to can share lunch and talk about… well, whatever we want.
It’s today, Monday, noon in the Dunn Brothers coffee shop in the lobby of the Downtown Mpls library. Here’s […]

Much as I prefer writing boring historical backgrounders, there’s no use denying that Black Ink’s coverage of the Rachel Paulose saga brought a lot of eyeballs to your humble ink-stained blog that would otherwise never have landed here.
As far as I can tell, the links from around the blogosphere continue to send people here looking […]

I’ll be interviewed shortly on the KFAI Evening News program around 6:15 p.m. about the Paulose story. KFAI is tuneable innable at 90.3 FM in Minneapolis and at 106.7 in St. Paul.
I never tire of quoting a Brookings media maven named Stephen Hess on what he modestly called Hess’ Media Law Number One “which is […]

Not really. I’m not even real sure what a cagematch is. And Michael Brodkorb (Republican operative, blogger of Minnesota Democrats Exposed, and part of the Saturday Northern Alliance Radio Network lineup) and I can usually talk to each other without hitting, spitting or titillating wardrobe malfunctions.
But I will be a guest on Brodkorb’s radio show […]

Your humble and obdt. ink-stained wretch will participatie in a panel at the downtown Mpls. main libary Saturday morning. The panel, titled “The Future of News: What Role for Journalists?” is part of a longer day of programss under the overall title of “Life After Newspapers.”
It’s the Annual Citizens Media Forum of the twin Cities […]

The Dan Barreiro radio show (KFAN AM 1130) has invited me on in the range of 5:20 this evening. The subject will be politics in general. I assume recent Black Ink posts on Paulose, Bachmann and possibly Ramstad will be part of the discussion.
Barreiro is off today. The guest host is Paul Charchian.