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About halfway through the march's route - which stretched through downtown St. Paul from the State Capitol to within shouting distance of the Xcel center - Mike and Sue Starr, 55 and 48, both teachers from Anoka, a suburb here, walked near the front of the protest line, occasionally contributing their voices to the intermittent chants. Mike, a Vietnam veteran who has a son about to leave for Iraq, said he can speak up now that he's retired from 25 years of military service. "We don't support Bush. They won't change, of course, but we're sending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protesting the GOP in St. Paul | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

Keillor was raised in Anoka, Minn., a town of about 15,000 that is now a suburb of Minneapolis but was not then. As far as he knows, Anoka people do not see caricatures of themselves in Lake Wobegon's sound burghers, possibly, he thinks, because they do not listen to his show, which suggests that they are like Lake Wobegonians, who would be the last people in the world to listen to A Prairie Home Companion. So he says. The small town of Isle, Minn., on a lake called Mille Lacs, suggested some of the physical characteristics of Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lonesome Whistle Blowing | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...foreign policy, want to build an American empire without asking citizens to support it with more revenue. The White House plans to achieve it with smoke and mirrors. This is the beginning of the collapse of the Bush Administration's house of cards. The President is overdrawn. Bill Mittlefehldt Anoka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

...many essential services are being cut while the federal budget deficit balloons. The Administration's neocon advisers want to build an American empire without asking citizens to support it with more revenue. The White House plans to achieve it with smoke and mirrors. The President is overdrawn. BILL MITTLEFEHLDT Anoka, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 8, 2004 | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

...seems that Ventura—who was born in Minneapolis and has constantly returned to the Land of 10,000 Lakes despite career stops in Vietnam as a Navy SEAL and in professional wrestling—lent a hand in directing a talented young man from Anoka, Minn., to spend four years of his life in Cambridge...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: “Body” Landed a Blow... For Harvard Hockey | 2/13/2004 | See Source »

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