I subscribe to Minnesota Family Council's e-newsletter, since I find their perspective on events and ideas to be informative, in a sense. There is this, in today's email:
You may have learned that the Star Tribune is eliminating the position of Katherine Kersten as a twice weekly metro columnist for the paper. Kersten was the one thoughtful, conservative voice at the Star Tribune which is one of the most liberal newspapers in the country. The loss of her voice is a loss for conservative Star Tribune readers and the broader community. (I realize many of you may not read the newspaper, but for middle of the road people she provided a voice of reason.)
MFC, an organization that has such love and respect surely has a job opening, or can make one for someone they regard so highly. That would be a match made in Heavan -- their place, or so they appear to indicate. For me, it improves quality of a paper that has slipped so very far that any improvement merits mention.
Here are some links, but how long they stay live links I cannot say: here, here, and here.
Lady, don't bother seeking any job on the Frankin Senate staff.
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More -- a trifecta of Kersten fear-and-loathing mongering, as Zach's link, above, describes it: here, here, and here. Am I unduly skeptical, in inferring things such as a lobbying effort afoot in advance of even Strib public notice of something; with the politics of it looking fairly distasteful?
All I could find about Kersten being downsized was what I read from that gentleman, Mr. Pritchard, of MFC in his e-mailing. On checking the Strib online, all I found via a site-specific Google of "Kersten" were hits to her what I call "writing" and this. If she truly is being bounced, she's taken her crying towel to factions that should offer her alternate employment rather than trying to fire up community discord over a newspaper's betterment. Perhaps the paper can outsource her - have someone in India read a few of her pieces of work, and then imitate it for a third the cost. It would not be hard to do.