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Please note: I mistakingly listed next week’s Gallery Grooves event in today’s events listing (but have since removed it). The event is on the 18th. Hope to see you then. And please forgive my error.

The Center for Media Research informs us that 630 thousand execs control two-thirds of the U.S. workforce.

CNET explores the negative publicity around the music upload trial of a Minnesota woman: “Almost everybody agrees Jammie Thomas is thumping the recording industry in a battle for hearts and minds.”

In an honest attempt to always show all sides of the spectrum, I point out this article, in which The Huffington Post’s John Ridley explores the legend of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. One way or another, I assume most people will have some reaction to it — though perhaps not mine.

I’m not quite sure how this flew over my radar, but apparently, The Huffington Post has named Betsy Morgan as their new chief executive officer. Morgan comes from CBS interactive, where she oversaw the network’s 24-hour news service.

The Minnesota House of Representatives informs us: For the third time, a transportation working group declined to sign off on $195 million for the Interstate 35W bridge reconstruction.

Ann Bauer turns us on to this WCCO story about a garbage house in Crystal. Apparently, the city will pay the owners — whose property has filled up with raw sewage — “fair market value” in order to take over the house and clean it up (which may involve razing it to the ground). In … Read more

According to JTA Breaking News, The Anti-Defamation League is urging the University of St. Thomas to invite Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak. Apparently, he was scheduled to come this Spring, but the university reconsidered, determining that Tutu’s comments against Israel deem him inappropriate.