MN GOP Senate Leaders Koch, Michel Discuss Legislation

By: Jacob Wheeler | February 4, 2011

Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch

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Following the legislative week, MN GOP Senate leaders Amy Koch and Geoff Michel discussed the week’s issues today at the State Capitol.

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In addition to shooting videos for The UpTake, Jacob Wheeler is a contributing editor at the progressive political magazine In These Times, publishes the Glen Arbor Sun in his native Michigan, and authored "Between Light and Shadow," a recent book about the Guatemalan adoption industry. Wheeler's stories have appeared in such magazines as the Utne Reader, Earth Island Journal, Rotarian and Teaching Tolerance magazine, and newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle and Christian Science Monitor. He speaks fluent Spanish, German and Danish.

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