Minnesota GOP’s Short-Sighted Stance on Tap Water

By Ed Kohler | Mar 13, 2010
Marty Seifert campaign consultant, Ben Golnik, thinks my recent take on the MN GOP's anti-Minneapolis tap water stance was "preposterous": Note: While I think it's preposterous that the MN GOP's would take such a shallow stance, I want to be clear that I don't think all Republicans are anti-tap water. This ...

MN Republicans are Anti-Tap Water

By Ed Kohler | Mar 11, 2010
File this under, "you can't make this stuff up." The Republican Party of Minnesota has released a statement verifying that they're anti-tap water. It comes within an anti RT Rybak statement that's consistently absurd: “After eight years of massive property tax hikes, irresponsible police cuts and millions in wasteful spending on ...

A Tax Rate Word Problem from Ryan Lyk

By Ed Kohler | Mar 10, 2010
I found myself reading the UMD Statesman, as I'm wont to do, when I stumbled across an opinion piece by Ryan Lyk. For those of you not familiar with Ryan, he is a self-proclaimed "Rising voice of the Republican Party." Sounds impressive, eh? (Have I been spending too much time ...

Colorado Votes to Not Create an Opt-Out Phone Book System

By Ed Kohler | Mar 10, 2010
Inside YP has an industry look at the recent attempt in Colorado to create an opt-out system for phone book deliveries. In the end, the attempt to create an opt-out system died in at 8-3 committee vote, so things did get very far. The yellow pages industry seems to be ...

Top-6 Minneapolis Social Media Campaigns You Haven’t Heard About

By Ed Kohler | Mar 8, 2010
It seems like self-proclaimed social media marketing gurus in this town like to get together on a regular basis to discuss the same case studies over and over again. Yes, Punch is good at running time sensitive promotions on Twitter. But what else is happening? Here are five that seem to ...

Dex One Sales Down 20% Year Over Year

By Ed Kohler | Mar 6, 2010
Dex One - the new brand for phone directory company, R.H. Donnelley - has reported (PDF) that they sold 20% less dollars worth of advertising in 2009 than 2008. They're projecting that 2010 will be better than 2009. Not through growth, but by declining at a lesser rate. Dex One . ...

John Moe’s Candy Club on Twitter

By Ed Kohler | Mar 5, 2010
John Moe's Candy Club on Twitter cracks me up. In a nutshell, once a week, John and his fellow candy enthusiasts pick a candy to all try at the same time on Twitter, then tweet about their experiences with it. You can follow along on Twitter's search engine by searching ...

Minnehaha Dairy Queen’s New Bike Drive Thru

By Ed Kohler | Mar 4, 2010
What what I've heard, the window on the side of the new Dairy Queen near Minnehaha Park is going to be used as a bike drive thru. As far as I know, this is the first of its kind in Minneapolis. I can imagine this filling up with families in ...


SuperMedia / Idearc 2009 Financials

By Ed Kohler | Feb 26, 2010
One of the major American yellow pages distributors, SuperMedia (formerly Idearc Media) announced today that $461 million less dollars came in the front door vs. the year before. Revenue for 2009 was $2,512 million, versus $2,973 million for 2008. On an adjusted basis, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) ...

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