Participants included the spokesman for the complainants, Larry Miller, a manufacturing quality manager from Big Lake, and Bruce Gordon, director of communications for the Department of Commerce (DOC), as a witness for the complainants. Gary Meyer, editor and publisher of The West Sherburne Tribune, submitted a written response to the complaint, but did not attend the hearing. The hearing took place at the Ramsey County Library in Roseville.

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The Winona Post ran an editorial critical of the practices of the Winona County Board of Commissioners following a committee of the board meeting on January 9, 2001. After reading an incorrect report in the Winona Daily News that said the board had decided to buy a former school building in an effort to recover lost office space after a courthouse flood, the Post’s editor called the board and obtained a denial of the report. The editor concluded that if such a decision had been made, it would have to have been at an illegal meeting.

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Participants included the complainant, Dr. Philip Sallberg, a dentist who lives in the Klema Addition, and Jodi Driscoll, the publisher/editor of the Roseau Times-Region. The hearing took place via video-conference, with the complainant, respondent and News Council executive director at the Roseau courthouse and Council members meeting at Piek Hall at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus. This was the Council’s first video conference. 

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Participants included the complainant, candidate Roy Carlson, and his campaign adviser, Doug Friedline, and responding for the Savage Pacer, Laurie Hartmann, publisher, and Nancy Huddleston, editor.

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Participants included the complainant, Nancy Barsness and editor/general manager of the Morris Sun/Tribune, Jim Morrison.

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Participants for the DNR included Rod Sando, Commissioner; Ron Nargang, Deputy Commissioner; Marcy Dowse, communications manager, and Scott Pengelly, information officer. KSTP declined to participate in the hearing, but forwarded to the Council a copy of its response to the DNR.

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Attending the hearing were the complainants, Jeffrey Thompson, Rice County Attorney and Assistant County Attorney Noah Cashman, and the Hanlon Family: Donna (mother), Casey, Kelly, and Katie (children) and the children’s uncle, Dan Hanlon. Representing the Faribault Daily News were Lisa Schwarz, managing editor, and David Balcom, publisher.

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Attending the hearing were the complainants, Dr. Patrick Michaels, Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, and Dr. Robert Balling, Director, Office of Climatology, Arizona State University. Respondents for the Star Tribune were Susan Albright, Editorial Page editor; Jim Lenfestey, formerly employed at the Star Tribune and writer of the editorial in question; Kate Stanley, current global warming editorial writer; and Eric Ringham, Commentary Page editor.

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Attending the hearing was the complainant, Minneapolis Police Lieutenant Mike Sauro. The Star Tribune declined to attend, saying it did not contest the validity of the complaint.

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Attending the hearing were the complainants, Patty and Randy Brandt, dairy farmers from Marshall, MN. WCCO-TV declined to attend.

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