Scott Shely of Stillwater, a member of Concerned Citizens for a Nuclear Free World, a local group formed to promote a mutual Soviet-U.S. nuclear weapons freeze, complained about unfair and inadequate coverage of the group and of the nuclear freeze movement.
Mark S. Rubin, assistant county attorney for St. Louis County, complained that the newspaper unfairly and improperly published the name and city of residence of a complaining witness in a criminal proceeding for swindling when the witness, suffering great personal embarrassment, objected. Rubin brought the grievance on his own behalf and on behalf of one of the victims of the swindle, a 55-year-old woman from Brooklyn Center.
Jim Bartlett, a deputy sheriff of Mower County, ran for the office of county sheriff against the incumbent, and following a heated election campaign, his campaign committee filed a multiple complaint against the paper, implying that it had contributed to Bartlett’s defeat in the general election. The committee complained that the paper:
The Minnesota Gun Owners’ Political Victory Fund complained that the newspaper inaccurately stated that Attorney General Warren Spannaus had not “pushed for more legislation” in the six years since the state’s existing firearms laws were passed. In addition, the gun owners complained that the newspaper did not respond satisfactorily to the charge, losing the group’s first letter to the paper and then incorrectly telling it that it didn’t publish corrections to editorials. An offer to print a letter to the editor for the group was rejected and a correction demanded.