Tag: pan

Election reform advocates pan GOP Senate moves vs. voter fraud

May 27—CONCORD — Election-reform advocates charge two bills that cleared the state Senate last week would disenfranchise thousands from registering and voting at the polls this fall because they lack proof of identity, age, domicile or citizenship. But Senate Election Laws and Municipal Affairs Chairman James Gray, R-Rochester, said it’s too easy for people to […]

Democrats pan Trump’s play for Minnesota as a ‘head fake’

No state screams “blue wall” louder than Minnesota. It hasn’t gone for a Republican since Richard Nixon in 1972. Democrats say former President Donald Trump doesn’t stand a chance there. And yet President Joe Biden‘s campaign is pushing out top-shelf local Democratic surrogates — Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. Tina Smith — on Friday to […]

Chris Pan, Ohio State grads learned hard way that commencement address words matter

Commencement words matter Re “Pan wants to set the record straight,” May 14: As a teacher of public speaking at the college level, I am sympathetic to the Dispatch article about Ohio State University alumnus and commencement speaker, Chris Pan. On the one hand, commencement speeches are strangely hard, something recently recounted with characteristic insight by the […]